Nearly every year for the past several years, I've taken a group of Eckerd College students to the Sundance Film Festival. The trip is the culmination of a January term course on American independent film.
This year, we will all be reporters, giving you the inside scoop on the latest information and gossip, describing our adventures and close encounters with fame in Park City, and letting you know which films to watch for and which to avoid.
We don't exactly have the run of the festival, and we aren't professional reporters, so you'll get a unique look at the festival from the point of view of ordinary college students and a philosophy professor (me).
We have, however, been given a special welcome:
This article appears in Dec 10-16, 2008.