Sundance jury passes over audience favourites

If the Sundance FilmFestival has drifted to the mainstream from the margins, no one has told thejuries of the 2004 event. In the keystone Dramatic Competition, the juryawarded its prizes to films that generated little buzz through the course ofthe festival while ignoring the films that caused the greater stir. Absent fromthe podium were the filmmakers whose work scored critical attention anddistribution deals during the festival, directors such as Zach Braff of GardenState, Greg ...