“broadband third world.”
Despite the panel and the panic about the web, this year Sundance is scaling back its online offerings. Its Online Film Festival, launched in 2001, has all but disappeared. In 2007, Sundance’s site offered nearly 50 films continuously over the course of the festival; this year, it’ll show just one for each of the festival’s 10 days.
2. Who really rules Sundance and why is it that no one likes Sony Pictures Classics? There have been rumblings for a number of years now that sales agents (or brokers) might have a little too much pull at Sundance. Dealmakers like Cinetic Media, William Morris, Submarine Entertainment, and the CAA (Creative Agency Artists) come to Sundance to represent filmmakers and to fuel the bidding war furnaces. Does a Cinetic stamp of approval get you into Sundance? Probably not, but the annual