Sundance Film Festival Shares a New Venue With The Shops at the Village on Main Street

Sundance Film Festival Shares a New Venue With The Shops at the Village on Main Street

PARK CITY, Utah, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Sundance Institute and Thompson National Properties are pleased to announce a new venue for official programming and sanctioned events during the 2009 Sundance Film Festival from January 16 through 24. Located on lower Main Street in Park City, the venue will be constructed of the latest temporary building technology and will be able to host up to 250 people. It will house the Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe Presented by Ray-Ban during the day, and transformed in the evenings into an intimate space for Festival-sanctioned events.

During the Festival, Main Street will be closed to traffic between 7th and 9th Streets and will become the site for the new venue and a pedestrian mall for other Festival public programming and official Sponsor activity. During the day, the venue will be the Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe Presented by Ray-Ban, open to Festival Credential holders each afternoon beginning Friday, January 16. This year's lineup includes Dave Barnes, Birdmonster, Chad & Jeremy, Tom Freund, Rosi Golan, Katie Herzig, Wynonna Judd, Landon Pigg, Lenka, Locksley, Chris Mann, John Rzeznik (Goo Goo Dolls), Angel Taylor, Phil Vassar, Sara Watkins, Dan Wilson, Rachael Yamagata, Youth Speaks, and some very exciting surprise guests.

"We are delighted to work with The Shops at the Village on Main Street to create a new venue on lower Main Street for our ASCAP music programming and film community supporters," said Sarah Pearce, Director of Operations, Sundance Film Festival. "We are grateful for the City's support for closing part of Main Street for official Festival programming."

Thompson National Properties, which owns the adjacent retail mall on lower Main Street known as "The Shops at the Village on Main Street", is an Official Provider of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. They are providing the venue for the duration of the Festival, and are encouraging its restaurant tenants in the Village on Main to stay open late to provide late night menus for film goers throughout the Festival. "This is a win, win," said Tony Thompson, CEO of Thompson National properties. "The Sundance Film Festival had the opportunity to close lower Main Street and provide the Festival with a real village atmosphere. We are privileged to help Sundance Institute provide a new venue for the Festival."

The Village on Main venue will be available to sanctioned organizations affiliated with the Sundance Film Festival each evening from 6.30 p.m. to 2 a.m. during the Festival. For more information about how to book an evening event in the venue please contact peakproduction@gmail.com or Pamela Alford at 303.818.0455.

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is the premier showcase for U.S. and international independent film, held each January in and around Park City, Utah. Presenting approximately 120 dramatic and documentary feature-length films in seven distinct categories and between 60 and 80 short films each year, the Sundance Film Festival has introduced American audiences to some of the most ground-breaking films of the past two decades, including sex lies and videotape, Maria Full of Grace, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, An Inconvenient Truth, Trouble the Water and Central Station. http://www.sundance.org/festival

Sundance Institute

Founded by Robert Redford in 1981, Sundance Institute is a not-for-profit organization that fosters the development of original storytelling in film and theatre, and presents the annual Sundance Film Festival. Internationally recognized for its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, film composers, playwrights and theatre artists, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Angels in America, Spring Awakening, Boys Don't Cry and Born into Brothels. http://www.sundance.org/

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Source: Thompson National Properties

CONTACT: Pamela Alford, +1-303-818-0455, peakproduction@gmail.com, for
Thompson National Properties

Web site: http://www.sundance.org/

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