Sundance 2019: From actress Mindy Kaling to sex guru Dr. Ruth, 35 must-see films
They don't mine for ore in Park City, Utah, anymore. The days when the $50-million Ontario strike was considered the greatest silver mine in the world are gone. But people still come to this former mining town hoping to hit it big.
It is the Sundance Film Festival, starting its 2019 edition Thursday night, that draws the hopeful year after year the way these snowy hills lured miners once upon a time.
Instead of prospectors from places as far away as Scotland, Ireland, Scandinavia and even China, Sundance attracted 14,259 film submissions from a whopping 152 countries, almost double the 87 nations who compete for the foreign language Oscar.
All these films attract quite a crowd of free spenders. According to the festival in 2018, the event "drew 124,900 attendees from 49 states and 26 other countries, generated $191.6 million in economic activity for
