In Variety, Ian Mohr looks at the race to rep Sundance titles:

The majority of Sundance's slate -- from Steve Buscemi's "Lonesome Jim" to Noah Baumbach's "The Squid and the Whale" -- has been tracked by industryites from script stage through Sundance Labs, agency packaging and so on.

In the tightly knit -- and ever-consolidating -- indie sector, execs and agents lose sleep imagining the competition pouncing on that unknown entity that has found its way into the heart of Sundance topper Geoff Gilmore.