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• YouTube and Sundance Institute Showcase World of Filmmaking in the YouTube Screening Room

  - 2009-07-20

  YouTubeTM today announced a collaboration with the Sundance Institute and American Honda to showcase in-depth, behind-the-scenes footage of the Sundance Institute Directors Lab in the YouTube Screening Room ( www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom ). For a six week time period beginning July 20th, 2009, Honda, as part of its corporate...

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• Sundance Film Festival seeks $1.5M from state

  - 2009-07-17

  The Sundance Film Festival is at a "tipping point," battered by rising costs and shrinking revenue. Now, Sundance Institute hopes Utah will pony up $1.5 million so Sundance won't have to eliminate venues or downsize the festival, which brings more than $92 million to the state. ...

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• The Sundance Institute named Trevor Groth director of programming for the Sundance Film Festival

  - 2009-07-01

  The Sundance Institute named TREVOR GROTH director of programming for the Sundance Film Festival. Groth has been with the festival for 16 years. He had been a senior programmer handling both narrative and documentary feature selection and leading the festival's short film section. Groth replaces JOHN COOPER, who...

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• Sundance talks to legislators about the festival's benefits

  - 2009-06-18

  Park City saw an $18 million increase in media exposure as a result of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, but the Sundance Institute wants even more awareness. The nonprofit Sundance Institute sent four representatives to a closed-door meeting Wednesday with state legislators to share the...

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• Playwrights Quincy Long and Matthew Paul Olmos have been named 2009 Time Warner Storytelling Fellows at the Sundance Institute Theater Program.(Legit Bits)

  - 2009-05-15

  Playwrights Quincy Long and Matthew Paul Olmos have been named 2009 Time Warner Storytelling Fellows at the Sundance Institute Theater Program. Long ("People Be Heard") scored the fellowship with his play "The Huntsmen," about a boy plagued by bad dreams, while...

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• Sundance Fest ups Groth.

  - 2009-05-08

  The Sundance Institute has promoted Trevor Groth, a 16-year veteran of the Sundance Film Festival staff, to the festival's director of programming. He succeeds John Cooper, who became the fest's director in March after Geoff Gilmore ankled the slot for the...

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• Sundance Fest names new director

  - 2009-05-07

  Salt Lake City native Trevor Groth, a veteran programmer for the Sundance Film Festival, is now the programming director of the event. The Sundance Institute announced Cooper's promotion this week; the change becomes effective immediately. Groth replaces John Cooper, who succeeded Geoffrey Gilmore...

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• Check out these cinematic gems

  - 2009-05-03

  As I said in my opening day review of the film, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" isn't the rousing, 2009 summer movie "season" opener that most of us had hoped for. It's merely watchable -- at best. But don't despair about the summer yet. The highly anticipated...

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• 2009 Ad

  - 2009-05-01

  THE 25th Sundance Film Festival faced a few big obstacles this year. Due to the crashing currency, corporate sponsorship was down. Fewer films sold, fewer parties were held. The festival ran January 15-25, and Obama's inauguration on January 20 had most of the city's occupants focused on reality...

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• Brecher exits Sundance post.

  - 2009-04-13

  Ken Brecher has ankled as exec director of the Sundance Institute, which oversees the Sundance Film Festival, after 14 years in the post. The move comes two months after Geoffrey Gilmore's resignation as the Sundance fest director in February to become chief...

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