Sundance Film Festival - 2007

The theme of this year's festival in Park City, Utah was Focus on Film. With so many 'private events' taking place in and around the festival, it could be easy to get distracted from the primary reason for the festival's existence.

Despite waking up to temperatures hovering just above zero every morning, I braved the elements and managed to see eight fantastic films, all of which I highly recommend when they come to a theater near you.

Grace is Gone
Winner of the Audience Award: Dramatic
Directed by James C. Strouse
Starring John Cusack
Distribution: Weinstein Company (paid $4 million)

Hear and Now
Winner of the Audience Award: Documentary
Directed by Irene Taylor Brodksy

In the Shadow of the Moon
Winner of the World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary
Directed by David Sington
Distribution: THINKFilms (paid $2.5 million)

Once
Winner of the World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic
Directed by John Carney
Starring Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova

Snow Angels
Directed by David Gordon Green
Starring Sam Rockwell, Kate Beckinsale

Teeth
Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Acting to Jess Weixler
Directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein
Starring Jess Weixler

The Good Life
Directed by Steve Berra
Starring Zooey Deschanel, Bill Paxton, Chris Klein

Year of the Dog
Directed by Mike White
Starring Molly Shannon, Laura Dern, Peter Sarsgaard, John C. Reilly