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2007 Sundance Film Festival Short Films To Premiere On iTunes

By Myrna Tobisoo

Jan 12, 2007, 14:15

A broad selection of short films from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival will be available for purchase and download priced at $1.99 (US) from Apple's iTunes Store beginning Monday, January 22, 2007.

The films available on iTunes are drawn from the 71 Sundance Film Festival short films, representing 19 countries and 4445 submissions from American and international filmmakers. Also available on the iTunes Store will be free podcasts that take you behind the scenes of the Sundance Film Festival including engaging panels with filmmakers, journalists and industry representatives direct from Prospector Square and live performances straight from the Music Café in Park City.

Sundance Institute will continue to stream a selection of short films online, free of charge, on the Sundance Film Festival website at www.sundance.org. These short films will be posted after they have screened at the Festival, beginning January 18 and continuing for three months to April 18.

Sundance Institute has partnered with industry leader Mediastile to provide ongoing digital distribution and encoding services to the Festival. As the official digital clearinghouse of the Sundance Film Festival, Mediastile provides a digital on-ramp to content retailers for filmmakers around the world.

Since 1991 Sundance Film Festival has provided a showcase for short filmmakers and their films. Fueled by artistic expression and free from the conventions of feature-length films, shorts have the ability to transcend boundaries of traditional storytelling. Over the years, the Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program has become a prime source of discovering filmmaking’s newest voices, including Todd Haynes, Spike Jones, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, David O’Russell, Tamara Jenkins, Nicole Holofcener and Alexander Payne.

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