A general view of the
Egyptian Theater on Main Street - a principal venue for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival - on January 15, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
The 10-day festival
mixes a showcase for independent fiction and non-fiction films with Hollywood
celebrities, panels for rising filmmakers, music and parties. The festival, marking
its 30th year, runs through January 26, 2014.
Robert Redford
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Sundance Institute president and founder Robert Redford
attends the Day One Press Conference at the Egyptian Theatre, at the opening of
the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
"Our job and our role is to create a space and a
platform to bring new voices and new ways of seeing the world using independent
film to this place," Redford said. "That's it. We're not interested
in the money, that's somebody else's issue."
Christina Hendricks
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Actress Christina Hendricks attends the "God's Pocket" premiere at Eccles Center Theatre during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Rose McGowan
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Director-actress Rose McGowan poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift, January 17, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
"Whiplash"
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Filmmaker Damien Chazelle and actors Melissa Benoist, Austin Stowell, and Miles Teller pose for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, January 17, 2014 in Park City, Utah. Their film, "Whiplash," one of the opening day
premieres, is an intense drama about a young drummer in the pursuit of
perfection in his craft.
Keira Knightley
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Actress Keira Knightley attends the "Laggies" premiere at Eccles Center Theatre during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
The actress plays
Megan, a 28-year-old who feels directionless despite her graduate degree and
stable, 12-year relationship.
Director Lynn Shelton
had a great idea for how to market "Laggies":
put video of Knightley dancing on YouTube.
Teresa Palmer
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Actress Teresa Palmer attends the "Laggies" premiere at Eccles Center Theatre during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Chloe Moretz
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Actress Chloe Moretz attends the "Laggies" premiere at Eccles Center Theatre during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Danny Glover
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Actor Danny Glover poses for a portrait during the 2014
Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At
The Lift on January 17, 2014 in Park City, Utah. Glover is co-producer of a new
documentary by Goran Hugo Olsson, "The Black Power Mixtape
1967-1975."
Geetanjali Thapa
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Actress Geetanjali Thapa poses for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the WireImage Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 17, 2014 in Park City, Utah. Thapa is the star of the Indiana drama, "Liar's Dice," directed by Geetu Mohandas.
Kristen Stewart
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Actress Kristen Stewart attends the "Camp X-Ray" premiere at Eccles Center Theatre during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Stewart stars as a guard stationed at the controversial prison at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Her character develops a relationship with a detainee.
"It's a movie about somebody who doesn't seem made up," Stewart told the Associated Press. "It felt really real to me … I haven't played too many parts that I feel like are really outside of myself. And it's quiet, and when something really quiet punches you in the stomach, that's what I like to do."
Lane Garrison
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Actor Lane Garrison poses for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 17, 2014 in Park City, Utah. Garrison co-stars with Kristen Stewart in "Camp X-Ray."
Tara Holt
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Actress Tara Holt attends the "Camp X-Ray" premiere at Eccles Center Theatre during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Actress
Maggie Gyllenhaal attends the premiere of "Frank," at Eccles Center
Theatre, during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014 in Park
City, Utah.
Gyllenhaal
stars with Michael Fassbender in the comedy from Irish director Lenny
Abrahamson about a group of eccentric musicians.
Aaron Paul
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Actor
Aaron Paul attends the Chase Sapphire VIP Event at Chase Sapphire during the
2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014 in Park City, Utah. Paul
stars in "Hellion," about a teenager roped into a life of crime by
his older brother.
Eve Plumb
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Actress Eve Plumb (best known from TV's "The Brady Bunch") poses for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 17, 2014 in Park City, Utah. Plumb stars in the revenge drama, "Blue Ruin."
Jason Momoa
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Actor Jason Momoa poses for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 17, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Diane Kruger & Brit Marling
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Actresses Diane Kruger (left) and Brit Marling pose for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the WireImage Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 19, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
"Love Is Strange"
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Actors John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei, Cheyenne
Jackson and Darren Burrows pose for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film
Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on
January 18, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
In "Love Is Strange," Lithgow and Molina play
longtime lovers who marry after 39 years together, only to face circumstances
that drive them apart.
"I just knew this was going to work so
wonderfully," Lithgow said. "I knew we were going to be a great old
couple."
George Takei
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Actor George Takei poses for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 18, 2014 in Park City, Utah. He is the subject of director Jennifer Kroot's documentary "To Be Takei," after the "Star Trek" actor and his activism.
Astrid Berges-Frisbey
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Actress Astrid Berges-Frisbey ("I Origins") poses for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 18, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Zoe Saldana
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Actress Zoe Saldana attends the premiere of "Infinity Polar Bear" at the Eccles Center Theatre during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Catherine Keener
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Actress Catherine Keener ("War Story") poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 18, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Mona Fastvold
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Filmmaker Mona Fastvold ("The Sleepwalker") poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 19, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Steven Spielberg & Kate Capshaw
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Director Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw attend the premiere of "Young Ones" at the Eccles Center Theatre during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
"To Find a Monster"
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From left: Producer Matthew Donaldson, co-producer Amelia Belle, actress Alanna Ubach and director Joshua Porter of "To Find a Monster" pose during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 18, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Wyatt Russell
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Actor Wyatt Russell ("Cold in July") poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 18, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Maika Monroe
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Actress Maika Monroe ("The Guest") poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 18, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Richard Kind
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Actor Richard Kind ("Obvious Child") poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 18, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Pierce Gagnon
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Actor Pierce Gagnon ("Looper"), star of Zach Braff's new film, "Wish I Was Here," poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 18, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Earl Lynn Nelson
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Actor Earl Lynn Nelson ("Land Ho!") poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the WireImage Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 18, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Gitte Witt
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Actress Gitte Witt ("The Sleepwalker") poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 19, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Anna Kendrick
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Actress Anna Kendrick ("Happy Christmas," "The Voices") poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 18, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Mark Ruffalo
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Actor Mark Ruffalo ("Infinitely Polar Bear") poses for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 19, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Meaghan Rath & Emmanuelle Chriqui
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Actresses Meaghan Rath (left) and Emmanuelle Chriqui ("Three Night Stand") pose during the 2014 Slamdance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 19, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Elijah Wood
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Actor Elijah Wood poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 19, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Madisen Beaty
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Actress Madisen Beaty ("Jamie Marks Is Dead") poses for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the WireImage Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 19, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
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Actor Kodi Smit-McPhee ("Young Ones") poses for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 19, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Morgan Saylor
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"Homeland" actress Morgan Saylor poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the WireImage Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 19, 2014 in Park City, Utah. Saylor stars in the film "Jamie Marks Is Dead."
Chaz Ebert
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Chaz Ebert poses for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 19, 2014 in Park City, Utah. "Life Itself," a new documentary based on the memoir of her husband, the late film critic Roger Ebert, bowed at the festival.
Rinko Kikuchi
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Actress Rinko Kikuchi ("Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter") poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 19, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Bill Hader
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Actor Bill Hader
poses for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images
Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 19, 2014 in Park City,
Utah. Hader co-stars with another "Saturday Night Live" alum, Kristen
Wiig, in "The Skeleton Twins."
Duplass and Banks
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PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 21: Actors Mark Duplass and Elizabeth Banks pose for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 21, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Banks stars in "Little Accidents." Duplass is star of "The One I Love," and executive producer of "The Skeleton Twins."
Elisabeth Moss
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Elisabeth Moss attends the premiere of her new film, "The One I Love," at The Marc Theatre during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Rooney Mara
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Actress Rooney Mara attends the premiere of "The One I Love" at The Marc Theatre, during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Frederikke Dahl Hansen
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Actress Frederikke Dahl Hansen ("Copenhagen") poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 21, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Steve Coogan
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Actor Steve Coogan poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 21, 2014 in Park City, Utah. Coogan stars in "The Trip to Italy" (a follow-up to his 2010 film, "The Trip"), in which semi-fictional versions of himself and Rob Brydon eat their ways across Italy.
Meredith Hagner
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Actress Meredith Hagner, star of the comedy, "Hits," poses for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 21, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Nick Cave
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Musician Nick Cave, subject of the documentary "20,000 Days on Earth," poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 21, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Emily Browning
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Actress Emily Browning ("God Help the Girl") poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 20, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Gabourey Sidibe
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Actress Gabourey Sidibe, starring in Gregg Araki's "White Bird in a Blizzard," poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 20, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Selena Gomez
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Selena Gomez ("Rudderless") poses for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 20, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Steenburgen and McDowell
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Actress Mary Steenburgen poses with her son, writer-director Charlie McDowell, at the premiere of "Song One," at the Eccles Center Theatre during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Anne Hathaway
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Actress Anne Hathaway attends the premiere of "Song One," at the Eccles Center Theatre during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
"The Raid 2"
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In this digitally-retouched photo, actors Julie Estelle and Iko Uwais ("The Raid 2") pose during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 22, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Elle Fanning
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Actress Elle Fanning ("Low Down," "Young Ones") poses during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 20, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
Shailene Woodley
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Actress Shailene Woodley attends the "White Bird in a Blizzard" premiere during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, at the Eccles Center Theatre on January 20, 2014 in Park City, Utah.