Robert Redford kicked off the 26th Sundance Film Festival with an appeal for participants at the 10-day event to remember Haiti's earthquake victims. The 73-year-old movie star -- a founding father of the world's biggest independent film festival -- made his appeal while speaking at the event's opening press conference in Park City. "My feeling about Haiti, I think ...

Robert Redford kicked off the 26th Sundance Film Festival with an appeal for participants at the 10-day event to remember the victims of the devastating Haiti earthquake. The 73-year-old movie icon, one of the founding fathers of Sundance, the world's biggest independent film festival, made his appeal while speaking at the event's opening press conference in Park City ...

John Cooper is the new Sundance kid, calling the shots for his first year as director of Robert Redford's festival for independent film. A festival veteran who started with Redford's Sundance Institute as a volunteer in 1989, Cooper presides over a Sundance Film Festival that is trying ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sundance Film Festival organizers on Wednesday unveiled plans for a one-night expansion of January's event to theaters in eight U.S. cities, hoping to encourage a discussion about the role art and cinema play in people's lives. Sundance, the largest U.S. gathering for independent films, is held each January in Park City, Utah, a ...