2012 Sundance Film Festival pumps life in to Utah.

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Sundance--SUNDANCE INSTITUTE brought more than the arts to Utah this last January during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, with an economic impact of $80 million for the state, according to the independent annual economic and demographic study conducted by the UNIVERSITY OF UTAH'S BUREAU OF ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS RESEARCH at the DAVID ECCLES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS (BEBR).

"First and foremost, our mission is really about making sure that this is a really vital platform for our independent film makers to have their work seen. Our goal is to get the work out in to the world, and if we do a good job with that what we've seen is that we have strong economic numbers," says Jill Miller, managing director of Sundance Institute.

According to the report, the...