Film List Sundance Festival inc. FREE STREAMS 

The largest film festival for independently produced film in Park City (Utah) has become something like the seismograph of the film industry. Already in 1978 the festival was a podium, especially to attract more filmmakers to Utah. In 1981, Robert Redford saved the festival from remaining a marginal existence by becoming chairman of the board. It takes its name from Robert Redford's role as the Sundance Kid. The list of famous directors who celebrated their breakthrough in Sundance reads like a who's who of modern American film: Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch, the Coen Brothers, Robert Rodriguez or Kevin Smith. After the decline of New Hollywood and the resurgence of US cinema in the blockbuster, Sundance took on the function of continuing the demanding American film. Since the big studios no longer relied on authors after the debacle of Heaven´s gate, the small independent distributors positioned themselves. Eventually something like a type of "Sundance film" established itself, which can be attributed the attributes Coming of Age, Province, Suburb, Drugs and Poverty. But in Sundance also movies for the public like Little Miss Sunshine were born. The success of Beasts of the Southern Wild 2012, which was traded as an Oscar candidate, proves how much the American film industry still looks to Utah.