The Little Festival that Could

Lost Film Fest will be happening concurrently with the Sundance FilmFestival in Park City, Utah this year. Lost Film is an undergroundalternative to the big-industry hustle that invades Park City everyyear.

Comprised of excellent independent artists creating significantfilms on no budget, Lost Film is a small but important monument to thenot-so-silent minority operating outside the big-money studio system.Their D.I.Y. (do it yourself) motto might be "Have hustle, but don't bea hustler."

Big on pranks, this roving event travels around the country debutingdocumentaries and more, poking a socially responsible finger at themainstream, while never losing its sense of humor.

Lost Film Fest, sometimes called "A pimple on the ass of Sundance",is in its third year.

The fest will be held from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday January 12,Sunday January 13, & Saturday January 19, 2002 in Park City, UT at268 Main St. at iLOUNGE. The keynote speaker will be Jello Biafra ofDead Kennedys (last year was Ian MacKaye of Fugazi). Tim Lewis willalso speak and live music by The Fleshies will be played. The featuredfilm will be D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an IndependentArtist, an arts documentary by Michael W. Dean.