The Sundance Film Festival bestowed its awards Saturday night during a ceremony in Park City.

The opening day press conference opened with nothing less than a reference to an American “government in paralysis” – Sundance Institute President and Founder Robert Redford’s allusion to the frustrating inability of the country’s political leaders to compromise with one another.   “The happy thing we’re pretty proud of is that here, for this week, we’re going to see work from artists, who even though their work might be reflective of these hard times, there’s not paralysis here,” Redford said. “There are fresh, new stories I’m happy you’re going to get to see.”