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Sundance crowds in Ogden staying constant

Last updated Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 12:32am

OGDEN -- Sundance Film Festival crowds in Ogden remain constant in number, and are largely Utah residents, according to a report released Wednesday by the Sundance Institute.

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Students leave Peery's Egyptian Theater in Ogden Thursday after seeing a Sundance Film Festival movie. NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner

Lessons in the dark

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, January 28, 2012 - 4:52pm

OGDEN -- About 1,400 Top of Utah high school students on Thursday stepped off yellow school buses, into the ornate auditorium of Peery's Egyptian Theater. There they were enveloped in the frustrating, politically manipulated world of top Lithuanian basketball players of the 1980s.

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Sundance Film Festival enthusiasts brave the cold to line up outside Peery’s Egyptian Theater in Ogden on Saturday to receive ticket-purchase appointment cards. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Shivering for Sundance

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 8, 2012 - 12:15am

OGDEN -- Sundance Film Festival enthusiasts lined up outside Peery’s Egyptian Theater in Ogden on Saturday to receive ticket-purchase appointment cards.

The cold didn't faze them, though Steven and Terri Ballard rested while waiting in line.

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(Associated Press file photo) Photographer Tim Hetherington, 40, attends The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures awards gala in New York in January. Hetherington was killed in Misrata, Libya, on Wednesday while covering battles between rebels and Libyan government forces.

Co-director of acclaimed Sundance documentary, photographer killed in Libya

Ben Hubbard, Standard-Examiner staff, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 11:16pm

MISRATA, Libya -- Two Western photojournalists, including an Oscar-nominated film director, were killed Wednesday in Misrata while covering battles between rebels and Libyan government forces. Two others working alongside them were wounded.

British-born Tim Hetherington, co-director of the documentary "Restrepo" about U.S. soldiers on an outpost in Afghanistan, was killed inside the only rebel-held city in western Libya, said his U.S.-based publicist, Johanna Ramos Boyer. The city has come under weeks of relentless shelling by government troops.

Chris Hondros, a New York-based photographer for Getty Images, was also killed. His work appeared in major magazines and newspapers around the world, and his awards include the Robert Capa Gold Medal, one of the highest prizes in war photography.

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Festival goers put up a poster for a film on a billboard on Main Street during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Park City on Friday.

Sundance Film Festival can make and remake careers

Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, January 24, 2011 - 3:53pm

LOS ANGELES -- Most actors would kill for Patrick Dempsey's credits. The 45-year-old performer not only stars in the highly rated television series "Grey's Anatomy," but also boasts the movie hits "Valentine's Day" and "Enchanted."

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Sally Coolley, a volunteer with Sundance Film Festival for five years, looks over the screening schedule of films for the festival at Peery’s Egyptian Theater in Ogden.

Spirits soar as Sundance Ogden kicks off

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 8:20pm

Tracie Darcey spent a recent evening being briefed on crowd control and brushing up on the computer program for Sundance ticket sales.

"People who come to the films here are just so excited to be part of the festival," said Darcey, 41, of Syracuse, volunteering for her second year at Sundance in Ogden. "The volunteers are like a close-knit family. I have been counting down the days until I could be part of this again. In Ogden, it's less about celebrities and more about the films."

Sally Coolley, of Clearfield, is in her fifth year as a volunteer.

"I love the anticipation of what films are going to be like," said Coolley, 66. "I've met people from all walks of life, working for Sundance. I've seen films I would never have seen otherwise, and I haven't been disappointed yet."

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