The crowds were thinner, the temperature warmer, and Barack Obama's name mentioned so many times that you might have thought he had assumed leadership not just of the free world, but the Sundance Institute, too. Otherwise, it was business as relatively usual as the Sundance Film Festival turned 25. If the highs weren't as high as those of some Sundances past—no radical, out-of-left-field debut features or eight-figure sales deals to write home about—neither were the lows as... More >>>