Peachy the Magazine January / February 2014 | Page 57

ART + ARCHITECTURE

nonprofit Sundance Institute in 1981,
which offered creative and financial
support to emerging filmmakers.
Despite low budgets and a remote
locale, the films exhibited at Sundance
were daring, innovative and nuanced,
and the festival quickly grew. In a relatively short time, Sundance became the
premier platform for provocative and
socially aware independent cinema.
Significant new talent emerged at the
festival, including Steven Soderbergh
who debuted Sex, Lies, and Videotape
at Sundance in 1989 and Quentin Tarantino who premiered