Robert Redford addresses diversity in film at Sundance

The 2016 Sundance Film Festival opens in Park City on Thursday.

Robert Redford is a two-time Oscar victor and founder of the Sundance film festival, which often serves as a launch pad for future award-winners.

Also heading to Slamdance is the Canadian film Myrtle Beach, from directors Neil Rough and Michael Fuller, in the documentary features competition.

For 31 years, the Sundance Film Festival has been committed to pairing audiences with independent storytellers.

Founded in 1981 by Robert Redford, Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization that provides and preserves the space for artists in film, theatre, and new media to create and thrive. That’s not to be confused with another film at Sundance called “Wiener-Dog” about a dachshund. Two years later, he wanted to host a larger festival that would attract filmmakers to Utah. I also want to say thank you to every last person that has given me their time, introduced themselves, talked with me, argued with me, sat with me, held a spot in line for me, laughed with me, or had a drink with me. Emerging filmmakers, meanwhile, are addressing such issues as gun violence and access to abortions in the U.S.in their films.

“It’s something we see in technology and other areas”.

“If we could, all of us, find the largest bed and get into bed together, it would express what I’m feeling right now”, Lear quipped to big laughs.

“Sundance has become a highly competitive festival because it’s such a popular festival”, she said. “If you’re independent-minded, you’re going to do things differently than the common form”.

Ratner is an independent producer who comes from the Forest City real estate family. A friendly reminder to tourists: Three right turns make a left.

“We did the screenings when there were no other people in the studio”, Czerny said.

“There are a million tragic true-crime stories like that and that wasn’t what drew us to it. It was exclusively the myth, the quest, the idea of something from the age of exploration taking place in the modern world where there’s not the sense of mystery there once was, where there is no unchartered territory”.

“I think it’s always changing”, Redford said.

He’s not into the Oscars, only the work..

This year’s jury members include Damon Russell, Jack Sergeant, Vanessa Hope and Steve Montal, according to Variety. “I’m not into that”.

“I can see the headline: ‘I don’t like Oscars, ‘” Redford joked. That’s for Donald Trump to say!

“What I like also about this film is that it’s for everybody”, Brisson said. “There’s moving image content everywhere, so I think showing films of quality is a very powerful tool, and I think it’s important for kids and younger audiences to have the option … to see the films and see the stories that may not necessarily be the mainstream Hollywood stories”.

Sundance was born to be weird..

“I came here originally because of the beauty of the land”, he explained.

For some of the first few years I went to Sundance, I was part of the infamous “blogger condo” behind the Racquet Club (now know as The MARC).

Four Daughters is bringing four of its wines to the festival: Big Boy, Marquette, Chad’s Folly and Moscato. Let’s make it weird and different, bring it to Utah and do it in the middle of winter. Maybe some people would like to ski – wouldn’t that be fun?

Chase Sapphire Preferred is prepping for its sponsorship of this week’s 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

“You put on a headset and go into these realities that are so moving a lot of the times”, he said. “It’s just nothing that occupies my thinking”. You get caught up in the relationship between Dano and Radcliffe.