Description: Every winter, 8,000 feet above sea level in the Utah snow, comes the Sundance Film Festival... the haven for independent films. In barely twenty years of existence, the festival has assumed tremendous importance: during Sundance, tiny Park City is so overrun by agents, publicists, studio executives and other Hollywood types that in 1998, they blew out the town's cell-phone relay system for most of the festival's ten-day run. John Anderson, chief film critic for New York Newsday, attended his ninth Sundance in 1999, but this time he did more than screen films and leap for tables at restaurants. He interviewed performers and filmmakers of all kinds, and also uncovered the effect of all this ballyhoo on the bemused Park City locals. Alongside the thoughts of Diane Lane, Steve Buscemi, Liev Schreiber, Mike Figgis, and other distinguished film people, are conversations with volunteers, bus drivers, policemen, shopkeepers, and more. Together, they form the most candid, most fascinating, most hilarious, and most human-sized coverage of the Sundance Film Festival ever achieved.

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