Its 10.30 at night and the lights go down, but we are not in a cinema but rather at an underground restaurant, as all of Sundance went black. All the street power died in Park City for 45 minutes. Hardly anyone seems that surprised given the amount of lights, parties and music that was happening at the time.

With the light of a couple of iphones screens, we managed to get out on the street and managed to catch a bus to the cinema that was about to show premiere “I Love Sarah Jane”. After going to completely the wrong cinema – and two buses later – we got to the Holiday Village Cinema II for the Shorts program. Sarah Jane got a good reaction it seemed from the indie crowd, in a sell out screening of “Shorts V”. Interestingly apart from Sarah Jane and some other great short films, the program was peppered with three “Green Porno” short films by Isabella Rossellini. These were both insanely funny and completely twisted.

As for the rest of Sundance, it is exactly what you would expect – a film crew on very corner – millions of people, traffic, movie stars and at least two RED cameras (one in the 130+ serial numbers – which had only just been picked up and the proud new owners were still filming there first 8 gig card as we walked by).

As for festival – here are the stats:

207 films will be screened here over the next 2 weeks, from a total of 8,731, and that includes 87 premiers, all from over 35 countries.