Sundance, the premiere film festival in the United States for independent films, takes place each year in this small town east of Salt Lake City. Many of the movies shown here will go on to become some of 2000's hottest independent films, as happened with last year's The Blair Witch Project . Girlfight was one of this year's most talked about films. It tells the story of a girl from the inner city who uses the boxing ring to build her self-esteem and give her the confidence to grow into womanhood. Along the way she encounters her first love.
Girl meets boy.
Girl slugs boy, and maybe they live happily ever after. The film also took home the award for best director of a dramatic film for Karyn Kusama. Spirit of Independent Filmmaking Kusama embodied the spirit of independent filmmaking as she struggled for years to get the film made, borrowing from any source she could including her credit cards. Can Count on Me , says the Sundance experience is vastly different from Hollywood. He says as a screenwriter for Hollywood, he has to write what other producers and directors want, but with his own independent film he is able to make the kind of movie he wants to make.