| REDFORD | Robert _, American actor and director who founded the Sundance Film Festival (7) |
| ROBERTREDFORD | Film star who founded the Sundance Institute and Film Festival (6,7) |
| BARBERA | 20th Century American animator and director who founded an animation studio with William Hanna (6,7) |
| PAPP | Joseph ?, American theatre producer and director who founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954 |
| JOSEPH | 20th Century American animator and director who founded an animation studio with William Hanna (6,7) |
| ALDRICH | Robert ___, American film director whose works include What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and The Dirt |
| AFFLECK | Ben _; American actor and film producer (7) |
| WINTERS | Jonathan ___: American actor and comedian for over 50 years(7) |
| PROMISEDLAND | 1987 film starring Kiefer Sutherland and Meg Ryan that was the first film to be commissioned by the Sundance Film Festival |
| RR | Initials of the actor who created the Sundance Film Festival |
| BERNARDMILES | British actor and stage director who founded the Mermaid Theatre in 1959 (7,5) |
| BURIED | Film starring Ryan Reynolds that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010 (6) |
| HOPONTHEBUSGUSVANSANT | Tip for a director trying to reach the Sundance Film Festival from his hotel? |
| TERRYHANDS | English theatre director who founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the RSC for 13 years |
| MELGIBSON | American actor and director of 1995 blockbuster movie Braveheart and director of The Passion Of The Christ (2004) |
| UTAH | Which US state hosts the Sundance Film Festival? (4) |
| POWELL | Michael -; director who founded the Archers film production company with Emeric Pressburger (6) |
| EBSEN | Buddy ___, American actor and dancer who played Jed Clampett in the TV series The Beverly Hillbillies |
| INDIE | Many an entry at the Sundance Film Festival |
| NEA | Org. that helped fund the Sundance Film Festival |