The Sundance Also Rises

Hope stays alive on the slopes of Utah.

This is the weekly news watch edition of The Ankler, featuring short(ish) peeks at the stories shaking Hollywood right now.

The definition of independent film at Sundance has always been fairly squirrely.  It tends to mean something between “not being distributed by a studio’s biggest division” and “not based on a Nicholas Sparks novel”

It’s now evolved i…