The Sundance Institute kicked off its 25th anniversary celebration with its annual post-Christmas, pre-Oscars Mecca in the Mountains, the Sundance Film Festival. As a perennial second-halfer, I missed the docu-centric parties that dominated the first half. And what a bevy of nonfiction soirees to have missedITVS' 15th anniversary bash, Pat Mitchell's valedictory address at the PBS fete, the Sundance Channel party (the channel turns ten this year) and a host of others. But I arrived just in time for IDA's Park City throwdown with A&E Indie Filmsa suds and sushi affair, well attended by IDA
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