The Sundance Institute launched the Fourth Annual Sundance Online Film Festival (SOFF) at www.sundance.org. This year’s Online Festival features 30 short films and interactive projects, and hours of new footage highlighting the activities and history of the Sundance Film Festival and Sundance Institute. Included in the new content are interviews with Sundance Film Festival programmers and Sundance Institute staff, behind-the-scenes looks at Institute programs, trailers from past Film Festivals, and highlights from the 2003 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony. The 2004 Sundance Online Film Festival runs until February 15, 2004.

The Sundance Online Film Festival includes films in three categories: Animation, Short Subject, and New Forms Gallery.

The Short Subject section includes:
FAKE STACY, John Chuldenko
FEARS OF A CLOWN, Seth Gordon
KINETIC SANDWICH, Eric Dyer
POL POT'S BIRTHDAY, Talmage Cooley
RISKY BUSINESS, Mark Teitelman
SCALPEL TO VEIN, Elvis D'Silva
STRANGERS, Erez Tadmor, Guy Nattiv
WE TODD DID, Brad Barnes
WET DREAMS AND FALSE IMAGES, Jesse Epstein
WHO’S YOUR DADDY, Matthew Ehlers

The Animation section showcases:
AHNOLD FOR GOVERNOR, Gregg and Evan Spiridellis
ARTFLICK 001, Kyle Newman, Nick Regalbuto
BATHTIME IN CLERKENWALL, Alex Budovsky
CRIMENALS, Gregory Araya
DRONEZ, Leif Arne Petersen, Manuel Macha, Paul Dreisen, Alex Hupperich
DRUM MACHINE, Andrew Cope, Tokyo Plastic
I.O.’S: THE BOOT, Guto Garcia, Marcelo Luis B. dos Santos
PUNTO ZERO, Motomichi Nakamura
RECIPE FOR LOVE, Chris Ferrantello
TOUCH ME NOW, Craig Marshall
WELL-TEMPERED HEADS, Theodore Ushev
WRONG NUMBER PHONE MESSAGE, Bruce Alcock

The New Forms Gallery section features:
THE DAWN AT MY BACK: MEMOIR OF A BLACK TEXAS UPBRINGING, Carroll Parrott Blue, Kristy H.A. Kang
THE DAYS OF MY LIFE, Shirin Kouladjie
ELEVATOR MOODS, Andrew Leitch, Ethan Spigland, Andrew Nahem
FLYING PUPPET, Nicolas Clauss
SICK DREAMS, HxDBeN
SILENT MOVIE FOR DEAF PEOPLE, Michael Brynntrup
SOUNDS LIKE TECHNO, JD Mittmann
TRACING THE DECAY OF FICTION, Pat O'Neill, Rosemary Comella, Kristy H.A. Kang

New content for this year’s Sundance Online Film Festival includes the following:

• SUNDANCE SPEAKS: Featuring Sundance founder Robert Redford and many of the Festival programmers, this section is a special addition to the Online Festival. With candid, personal insights, the Festival programmers speak about the Sundance Film Festival and the creation of the Online Film Festival, as well as the rationales behind this year’s film selections.

• The TRAILER PARK is the only Internet source for the 2004 Sundance Film Festival trailer and memorable Festival trailers from past Sundance Film Festivals .

• The SHORT FILM SHOWCASE is a program of short films that are screening in the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. This program is back by popular demand and is a great opportunity to experience the Sundance Film Festival as it happens simultaneously in Park City.

• AWARDS NIGHT is a collection of highlights from the 2003 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony. Get a glimpse of the recent award winners , many of whose films were highlights of the 2003 film scene.

• BEHIND THE SCENES will introduce the many faces of the Sundance Institute to audiences world-wide. The Festival is the most well-known aspect of the Sundance Institute, but the Institute’s year-round programs, workshops, and special events, support the development of some of the independent film and theatre world’s most interesting new artists and work.

• The WINNER’S CIRCLE segment of the Online Festival showcases the past three years of SOFF winners, all of which were created by directors who continue to surprise and delight global audiences through their web-based work.

• From the red-carpet to Main Street, the new PHOTO ALBUM and SUNDANCE WIRED section, brings the images of the Sundance Film Festival to computers of people around the world.