When the Sundance Institute’s president, Robert Redford,
gave a welcoming speech for this year’s festival on Jan. 16,
he stated that Sundance was created to thwart commercial pressures
on artists.

During the Sundance Film Festival, when often more than one
party rocks Park City in the same night, UCLA held an afternoon
party that mixed festivity with modesty.

In a male dominated Hollywood, where women active on both sides
of the camera are still scarce in numbers, there was an Ida Lupino
who managed to act, direct, write, and produce films within the
Hollywood studio system as early as the ’40s.