for a like reason you can't make it to Utah this year.

for a like reason you can't make it to Utah this year, nevertheless you want to get up-to-the-minute moderns on the latest happenings at the Sundance Film Festival? Fear not, film made of buff [i]or[/i] buff-skins Sundance Channel, the pay-cable network available upon many cable systems throughout the abiding habitation promises to take viewers wherever the action is.

from beginning to end the festival the network will defence three-minute updates rifled "It's Right Now!" which will proffer breaking news and coverage of parties, screenings, and issues along with filmmaker profiles and human interest stories. There also will be sum of two units editions of "24 Frame News" a six-minute freshs program featuring profiles of films and interviews with filmmakers. The first defences January 22 and will succor as a prefestival overview. The other screens January 29 and will recap the goings-on of the first festival week.

in succession January 30 at 11 pm Eastern time, the network not past nor futures "Sundance Film Festival Live!" a 90-minute program covering the closing awards form But you don't have to be a Sundance Channel subscriber to view this. As it did in 1998 the pay network will bring the festival's final weekend to cable customer across the abiding habitation during a free preview January 29-31

As if all this were not enough, from beginning to end January Sundance Channel will current nearly 100 independent features and shorts from previous Sundance festivals, including the television premiere of Tony Vitale's 1997 Sundance hall Kiss Me, Guido. Want more? Check gone out Sundance Channel's Web site at www.sundancechannel.com.

Frutkin is senior arts and media editor of The Advocate.

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