Robert Redford addressed the troops last night as the Sundance Film Festival kicked into gear. He hailed the filmmakers as “agents of change” and warned those desperately seeking buzz to expect the unexpected, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. He might have a point, as this L.A. Times look at last year’s highly touted Sundance crop portends.

The buzz-seekers went on to ignore Redford’s advice anyway. With the WGA strike dragging on, studios are eager to find readymade product to fill holes in their release schedules. The first big deal has already been made, with HBO snapping up the rights to The Black List: Volume One, a documentary collaboration between photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and former New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell. For a handy cheat sheet of the rest of this year’s buzz flicks, head over to Defamer.

If you’re looking for something to see in Park City tonight, the highlight looks to be Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired at the Holiday Village at 6:15 pm. Co-writer/director Marina Zenovich writes about her experiences making the documentary for Filmmaker. If midnight movies are more your speed, George Romero’s Diary of the Dead screens later tonight.