Para o New York Times, já se foi o tempo em que o Festival de Sundance tinha algo de cinema independente.
Any Little Gems? Who Cares? Sundance Is a Hot Brand Now
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Before it was a brand, a media circus and an adjunct of Hollywood, the Sundance Film Festival was exhilarating, a blast. It was also small.
In 1993, the first year I attended the festival, it showed 71 new features culled from more than 350 submissions and attracted some 5,000 attendees. That year Robert Redford told Variety that the festival, then in its ninth year, was putting the brakes on growth because “when you start expanding on something, you run the risk of losing quality.” That was then, this is now: This year, the festival presented 125 features (from 3,287 submissions) for an estimated audience of 52,000, including some 1,000 accredited journalists from around the world and 900 registered film industry types.