PARK CITY, Utah -- Sundance Institute announced that the first selection of short films from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival are available for download via The iTunes Store.

The availability of these and upcoming shorts on iTunes signifies Sundance's commitment to exposing filmmakers' work to a broad audience by leveraging new technologies, as well as extending the reach of the festival to include film lovers beyond Park City.

"It's an exciting time for us to offer short filmmakers the opportunity to expose their work to audiences outside of the Festival through iTunes," said John Cooper, director of programming, Sundance Film Festival. "The quality of this year's shorts represents creative, independent filmmaking at its best and further strengthens our commitment to providing new avenues to showcase Sundance films."

Fans will now be able to use iTunes to discover filmmaking's newest voices, working in the short film format, freed from the constraints of traditional feature-length storytelling.

Representing filmmakers from around the world, with subjects embracing a wide range of emotions, cinematic and storytelling styles, Sundance short films can be purchased and downloaded from iTunes for $1.99.