The Film Society of Lincoln Center hosted a daily radio program from the 2014 Sundance Film Festival called The Daily Buzz. Adding to the success of The Daily Buzz at Sundance, Cannes and SXSW in recent years, the Film Society will continue to take the program to other festivals throughout the year. Their goal is to bring the latest news and hot topics of each festival to listeners across the country. The Film Society wants to bring you a piece of the action, even if you can’t attend these noteworthy festivals!

“Back for our fourth year, The Daily Buzz cuts through the clutter to deliver an hour of daily interviews and buzz from Sundance,” said the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Director of Digital Strategy, Eugene Hernandez. “We aim to highlight the films we think our listeners will want to know about, showcasing up and coming filmmakers as well as seasoned industry insiders and critics.”

The show was available locally in association with Salt Lake City public radio station KCPW (88.3FM/105.3FM), via streaming on KCPW.org, and is available on the Film Society’s website, www.filmlinc.com and as an iTunes podcast.

Sponsors of the Sundance show this year include Soyombo Vodka, SkullCandy, Cloud Electronics, and Sabra Hummus. Soyombo vodka was a huge hit as guests sampled this organic wheat Mongolian vodka in small brass cups and learned the important tradition of dipping the ring finger in the bowl and flicking to the past behind you, the present above you, and the future before you, before sipping the warming fluid. Distilled six times, this super premium vodka made delicious cocktails.

Guests scheduled to appear at Sundance included Film Society programmers and the following filmmakers: Gregg Araki (White Bird in a Blizzard), Joe Berlinger (Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger), Steve James (Life Itself/Hoop Dreams), Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip), Andrew Rossi (Ivory Tower), Ira Sachs (Love is Strange), Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz (Land Ho!), Stephanie Soechtig, Katie Couric and Laurie David (Fed Up), Joe Swanberg (Happy Christmas), Michael Tully (Ping Pong Summer) and many more. Some of the actors scheduled to appear on the show include Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Kurt Russell, Mary Steenburgen and George Takei.

Each show begins begins with recent hot topics featuring critics and journalists sharing the latest buzz on the movies and deals making waves at the fest. Among those conversing were Brooks Barnes (New York Times), Sean Means (Salt Lake Tribune), Kim Voynar (Movie City News), Eric Kohn (Indiewire), and Dana Harris (Indiewire).

Industry insiders will participate in one-on-one interviews including Arianna Bocco (IFC Films), John Cooper (Sundance Institute), Ira Deutchman (Emerging Pictures/Columbia University), Keri Putnam (Sundance Institute), Dusty Smith (Gravitas Ventures), Tom Quinn (Radius-TWC) and Ryan Werner (Cinetic Media).

Did you know that the Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema? The Film Society of Lincoln Center works to recognize established and emerging filmmakers, support important new work, and to enhance the awareness, accessibility and understanding of the moving image. Film Society produces the renowned New York Film Festival, a curated selection of the year’s most significant new film work, and presents or collaborates on other annual New York City festivals including Dance on Camera, Film Comment Selects, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, LatinBeat, New Directors/New Films, NewFest, New York African Film Festival, New York Asian Film Festival, New York Jewish Film Festival, Open Roads: New Italian Cinema and Rendez-vous With French Cinema. In addition to publishing the award-winning Film Comment magazine, Film Society recognizes an artist’s unique achievement in film with the prestigious “Chaplin Award.” The Film Society’s state-of-the-art Walter Reade Theater and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, located at Lincoln Center, provide a home for year round programs and the New York City film community.

The Film Society receives generous, year-round support from Royal Bank of Canada, Jaeger-LeCoultre, American Airlines, The New York Times, Stonehenge Partners, Stella Artois, the Kobal Collection, Trump International Hotel and Tower, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

For more information, visit www.filmlinc.com and follow @filmlinc on Twitter.