Sundance Group
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In 1969, Robert Redford purchased 6,000 acres (24 km²) at the base of beautiful 12,000-foot (3,700 m) Mount Timpanogos in Utah's Wasatch Mountains. He named this land Sundance (after his character in the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). The Sundance Group is a listing of all the businesses that run under the Sundance corporate umbrella started by and run by actor Robert Redford. Over the years, Sundance has established many facets that further the vision of film, artistic freedom and expression, and nature preservation.
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[edit] Sundance Institute
The Sundance Institute is a non-profit organization founded in 1981. It's dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences. Through its programs, the Institute seeks to discover, support, and inspire independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work.
[edit] Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the United States that began in 1985 and ranks alongside the Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Toronto film festivals as one of the most prestigious in the world. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the U.S. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, Utah as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is the premier showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival comprises competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, and a group of non-competitive showcase sections, including the Sundance Online Film Festival.
[edit] Sundance Catalog
In the Sundance Resort was a tiny store which guests would frequently write to, requesting special items they had seen while visiting Sundance. 20 had passed since the beginning of Sundance and requests for the store's unique offerings spread beyond the box canyon. People who had visited Sundance began to write back to the store from all over the country. Robert Redford called together a few of his colleagues to discuss starting a mail-order catalog to fill these requests and to make Sundance's unique items available to a wider audience. It started small, four employees working from the old Sundance Village firehouse put together the first Sundance Catalog, which mailed in the fall of 1989 to a relatively small group of general store customers and friends.
[edit] Sundance Channel
Sundance Channel was launched in 1996 and is a venture of NBC Universal, Showtime Networks, Inc. and Robert Redford. The Sundance Channel offers viewers films, documentaries, and original programs, all unedited and commercial free. The Sundance Channel operates independently of the non-profit Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival, but shares the overall Sundance mission of encouraging artistic freedom of expression.
[edit] Sundance Cinemas
The latest of the Sundance name is the Sundance Cinemas which first opened in 2007. The cinemas provide a unique film-going experience by raising the bar with facilities that feature excellent presentation, upscale amenities, and value added customer services, all in a comfortable environment. Sundance cinemas offers the best films in the marketplace. In addition, Sundance Cinemas provides special event programming, educational programs, and other local events that make the facilities an important part of the fabric of its community.
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Sundance Institute Sundance Film Festival Sundance Channel Sundance Cinemas Robert Redford
