Robert Redford Created The Sundance Institute To 'Celebrate People Who Don't Get Celebrated'

Dec 31 2022 by /Film

 

The Sundance Institute was founded in 1981 by Robert Redford and a host of other notable filmmakers, critics, and general enthusiasts of cinema. Redford, Robert Townsend, Saul Bass, Sydney Pollack, and 21 others co-founded the Institute as a means to distribute and celebrate independent films and small-budget filmmaking, the type often left out of widespread studio distribution deals. As detailed in a 2010 history in Time magazine, the Sundance Institute took the reins of the flagging United...

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