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Sundance Film Festival: Family Friendly?

I came across an article in the Salt Lake Tribune today that includes this quote from Patrick Hubley, the spokesman for the Sundance Film Festival: “We want people to know there are films that are appropriate for all ages.”  The article then goes on to list a selection of movies that they deem okay for “all audiences”.  These include a film called “Enemies of Happiness” (I’m sure the kids would love that one!), a movie called “Hot House” that gives an “unprecedented look at how Israeli prisons have become…the birth place of future terrorist threats”, and another story about how three U.S. towns forced their entire African American populations to leave in the early part of the last century.  I’m sure they are all fine films and I’d probably enjoy many of them myself, but if Sundance is really trying to position itself as “family friendly”, I think they need to work a little harder as the majority of the films mentioned in this article would, in my opinion, only be suitable for families with high school students.

We’ll stick with “Little Mermaid” and ”Finding Nemo” for a while longer, I think, and save the snow, celebrity sightings and films in Park City for another year.