Sundance Film facts
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Mitch Hedberg wrote, directed and starred in the 1999 film "Los Enchiladas!", also starring Dave Attell and Marc Maron. It premiered at Sundance, but was never released publicly. Here it is!
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The Brave Little Toaster very nearly took home the top award at the 1988 Sundance Film Festival, but the judges were afraid that the festival would lose respect by picking a cartoon
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Sesame Workshop stopped the distribution of a successful Sundance short film called ‘Ernest and Bertram’ that portrayed Bert and Ernie being outed to the public as gay, resulting in Ernie committing suicide.
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Robert Redford is the founder of Sundance film festival, and Avengers Endgame is the last time we will see him on screen
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In 2014 Anna Kendrick appeared in three films that were featured at the Sundance Film Festival including Happy Christmas, The Voices, and Life After Beth.
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One of the most famous film festivals in the world = the Sundance Film Festival = is held in Utah each January. 2013 saw 12,146 films submitted to the festival.
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El Mariachi won Robert Rodriguez the Audience Award at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival.
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Mitch Hedberg wrote, directed and starred in the 1999 film "Los Enchiladas!", also starring Dave Attell and Marc Maron. It premiered at Sundance, but was never released publicly.
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Damien Chazelle, had to make Whiplash into short movie as he couldn't get funding. And only after the short film won Sundance Film Festival, did he get funding to make it into movie.
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The Sundance Film Festival was founded by Robert Redford and was named after his breakout role in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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When Justin Lin was being grilled at Sundance for his portrayal of Asian-Americans in his debut "Better Luck Tomorrow", a man angrily stood up and interrupted the Q&A to defend Lin's film. It was Roger Ebert and the incident is largely credited for getting the film bought by MTV Films.
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There is a mysterious sound called the "52-hertz whale". A Kickstarter campaign to make a film about finding the whale was successful in raising over $400k with help from Leonardo DiCaprio. The film played at Sundance and releases soon.
