The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in the state of Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the U.S and has been running since it was founded in 1978 by Robert Redford and the then govenor of Utah Scott Matheson.
Sundance has grown over the last 40 years to become arguably the biggest film festival in world. The festival showcases the best in american and international films. The intital goal of the film festival was to showcase strictly american films and to hightlight how big independent films could be if they were showcased in the right light. Sundance is most known for its dramatic and documentry films although they do showcase work from a number of genres. Two of the biggest comeptions at the film festival are the US documentry comeptition and the US Dramtic competition. Because of sundances growth over last 40 years or so, it is now a very classy and well respected amongst the film indusrty. Meaning that all of the work is of extrem quailty and rarely created by amitors.
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