A Closer Look at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Competition and NEXT Films

January will usher in the 30th anniversary of the Sundance Film Festival, and chatting with Festival Director John Cooper and Director of Programming Trevor Groth, one can sense that things aren’t so different than they were at Robert Redford’s inaugural Festival in Park City, Utah. As independent film has evolved from its renegade-spirited roots to an “accepted form of creative expression,” the tenets of the Sundance Film Festival remain unaffected. In deconstructing  the program for t...