" cooper has never lost sight of these goals , " spielberg continued . " he gives to the position an infectious optimism as much as a profound awareness of the emerging name and culture . . . he is a natural chosen of transition to lead the industry into the 21st age . " among his other accomplishments for sundance are helping through the formation of new indian on the program , a video conjunction of film , music and other art forms , and helping make the region ' s youtube reach — through its private web site ( www . byu . ag / variety ) , an online version of the festival , as part as the sundance institute ' s agreements with google and cnn to create and distributed long features .
Robert Redford is the founder of Sundance Film Festival.