NET-36 streams Sundance Film Festival

GREENWICH, Conn. -- NET-36 is providing streaming content delivery for the Sundance Online Resource Center during the Sundance Film Festival (Jan. 18 -28), produced by Internet Studios.

NET-36's content delivery network is enabling a multimedia view of many of the Film Festival program activities during the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. The programming includes clips and stills from many of the 200 films at the festival and is accessible during and after the Festival at www.sundance.org and www.sundanceonlineresourcecenter.org.

"The Sundance Film Festival is one of the world's premiere cinema events and we are proud to be working with Internet Studios, in association with the Sundance Online Resource Center, to introduce the filmmakers' creativity to a global Internet audience," said Bill Moses, president of NET-36 and senior vice president of PanAmSat. "The NET-36 satellite-to-edge architecture bypasses up to 95 percent of Internet congestion points and makes content accessible to broadband households through partnering last-mile service providers." The Sundance Online Resource Center is located at the new Sundance Digital Center, a site created for the public and festival attendees to experience and explore the changing landscape of filmmaking technology. The Sundance Digital Center will host filmmakers and technology experts working on the cutting edge of motion picture production. In connection with the Sundance Digital Center, a series of digital dialogues featuring leading filmmakers and technologists will be examining issues facing today's filmmakers, including 24P technology, electronic cinematography, digital cinema, broadband distribution, and the Internet. NET-36's president, Bill Moses, was a speaker in the January 21 session, "The Future of Broadband."

"I am delighted that NET-36 will join us in the debut of the Sundance Online Resource Center at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. NET-36 will enable us to promote the festival programs online and reach wider audiences than in previous years," said Ian Calderon, director of digital initiatives and founding trustee of the Sundance Institute.