Sundance has perennially been fertile ground for those in the spot world to sow their film oats, and this year is no different with films from Michel Gondry (Partizan), Dayton/Faris (Bob) and Jason Reitman (Tate & Partners) among the crop.

Gondry's third feature film Science of Sleep premieres at the festival. Little Miss Sunshine is Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris's first feature film. Meanwhile, Reitman's first feature, Thank You For Smoking, debuts as does composer Stewart Copeland's first effort as a director, the doc Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out.

Part of the Moxie Pictures-produced Glamour Films series, Dealbreaker is Gwenyth Paltrow's directorial debut with co-director Mary Wigmore, who both just signed to Moxie for commercial and video representation. Edited by Julie Drazen (89 Editorial), Dealbreaker is the only one of the five Glamour Films at Sundance.

The films of several other commercial makers also populate the shorts programs including Aruba by Hubert Davis (untitled); At the Quinte Hotel by Bruce Alcock (Global Mechanic); Bugcrush, edited by Holle Singer (The Consulate, dir. Carter Smith); The Pity Card by Bob Odenkirk (Bob Industries); Le Rouge au Sol by Maxime Giroux (Jet Films); and A Supermarket Love Song, by Daniel Outram (Moon, London), which was edited by Cut + Run editor Dan Robinson who also edited Antonio's Breakfast (dir. Daniel Mulloy).

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