Academy Award-winning actress Jodie Foster is a featured guest this year.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt hosted the ceremony in Park City, Utah. Categories included drama, documentary, world cinema, U.S.A.-made films and shorts.

Starring Rutger Hauer and Manuela Martelli, the Alicia Scherson film will enjoy its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

Indie video games, priced from $10-20 on WiiWare, Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, don’t generate Halo money, but a top-seller can still make its creators multi-millionaires in a matter of weeks after launch.

Ebert follows in the footsteps of philanthropist and Sundance Institute Trustee George Gund, who was the first to receive the award.

Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Born Into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Son of Babylon, Amreeka, An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, Light in the Piazza and Angels in America.

“It’s no secret times are grim,” Redford told an assembled group of media, film writers, and industry press. But, on the bright side, he told us, artists will be not hold back here at Park City, in exibiting a sense of “place” with their content.

Welcome to the dungeon asylum of robot blacksmiths. F@#%ing to death by horses. Robot porn stars… Wait a sec, did I mention that Meaning of Robots is an official Sundance entry?

When prodded to explain why they do it, they admit it’s for the money. Their parents are there to support them, to allow them to follow their dreams and pursue whatever makes them happy.

Teddy Bear is one of those rare films that can tell a story by letting the camera relax and observe. Like the development of the story, there is no rush to cut quickly between scenes, or break into a MTV-style sequence.