January 18, 2007
Phones, YouTube change view of Sundance Festival
The definitive image from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, opening tonight in Park City, Utah, might be shot with a camera phone and posted on the Internet. Detroit News reports.
"Thanks to camera phones and video-sharing sites such as YouTube everyone can be a cameraman and everyone can show a "film" to the world in an instant. And celebrities, like those who will flock to Utah's mountains for the 11-day festival, are a favorite target.
... Sundance's exposure on YouTube may mirror the Internet coverage of September's Toronto International Film Festival, where attendees recorded their experiences and uploaded them for everyone to see.
"It's sort of a meta-document. It gives us a grass-roots chronicle of it," said Noah Cowan, co-director of the Toronto festival."
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