Sundance Film Festival

Film buffs, moviemakers, studio executives and celebrities flock to Park City each year in late January for the renowned Sundance Film Festival, which features the best in cutting-edge American and international independent film. The 2010 Sundance Film Festival will take place January 21-31, 2010. In addition to the Sundance Film Festival, Park City also hosts screenings of offbeat independent films and documentaries every weekend from September through June during the Park City Film Series.

Founded in 1978 as the Utah/U.S. Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival has evolved into the largest independent film festival in the United States and today is known as the premier showcase for new and innovative work from American and international independent filmmakers. Many of today's most acclaimed filmmakers got their big break at the Sundance Film Festival such as Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch, Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Steven Soderbergh, James Wan and Paul Thomas Anderson. In addition, many critically acclaimed films received wider attention as a result of the Sundance Film Festival such as Reservoir Dogs, Clerks, Napoleon Dynamite, Maria Full of Grace, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, An Inconvenient Truth, Trouble the Water, Central Station, Saw, Little Miss Sunshine, The Blair Witch Project and Sex, Lies and Videotape.