Sundance dives into other forms of filmmaking

This year the festival screens almost 120 feature films, of which a total of 27 are in competition, from 32 countries, including the works of 51 new directors.

Park City hosts these days, and until January 27, a new edition of the Sundance Festival. Hundreds of professionals come to this charming city to discover new ways of making films and participate in the parallel market for the distribution of titles both on the big screen and on multiplatform devices.

This year the festival screens almost 120 feature films, of which a total of 27 are in competition, from 32 countries, including the works of 51 new directors. The festival's programming included more than 12,000 titles presented by filmmakers and production companies from around the world.

Directors Rickard Linklater, Lynn Shelton, James Ponsoldt, Andrew Bujalski, Shane Carruth and Jerusha Hess and actors Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck and Ben Foster (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints), Daniel Radcliffe y Elizabeth Olsen (Kill Your Darlings), Kristen Bell (The Lifeguard) and Jessica Biel (Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes) are some of the names attending Sundance this year.

Robert Redford, the president and founder of the Sundance Institute, promoter of the festival, has highlighted that “every great film begins with an idea” and highlighted the fact that artists “continually come up with them, with new stories, new points of view and new ways of sharing them.”

The festival will close with the screening of Jobs, a curious work starring Ashton Kutcher focused on the life of Apple founder Steve Jobs between 1971 and 2000.