This is an official 2008 Sundance Film Festival event and is open to festival badge holders, press and invited guests only; tickets will not be sold.

Showtimes for the Snowball showcase will be:

6 p.m. Cheb i Sabbah with Salar Nader, Mitch Hyare and special guest Gingger Shankar

6:30 p.m. Steve Smith from Dirty Vegas

7:15 p.m. Nick Urata from DeVotchKa

8:15 p.m. The Aggrolites

Songwriter/Artist Bios

BMI is a committed partner of the Festival, having showcased vital musical talent there for the past 15 years. BMI is a founding sponsor and participant of the Sundance Composers Lab and music program. Past BMI Sundance shows have included BMI songwriters DEVO, Shelby Lynne, Keb Mo, Vanessa Carlton, Terrence Blanchard, Minnie Driver, The Neville Brothers, Van Hunt, Cheap Trick and many more. For more information on BMI events at Sundance as well as on-site coverage of the Festival, please visit bmi.com/sundance.

The Sundance Film Festival is the premier showcase for U.S. and international independent film. Held each January in and around Park City, Utah, the Festival is a core program of the Sundance Institute, a nonprofit cultural organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981. Presenting 120 dramatic and documentary feature-length films in seven distinct categories and 80 short films each year, the Sundance Film Festival has introduced American audiences to some of the most innovative films of the past two decades, including American Splendor, Clerks, Hustle and Flow, Maria Full of Grace, Napoleon Dynamite, Sex, Lies and Videotape, Smoke Signals and Super Size Me. Beyond the streets of Park City, the official website of the Sundance Film Festival, www.sundance.org, shares the Festival experience with a global audience through the streaming of short films, filmmaker interviews, and current news and box office information.

In 2004, Driver made another dazzling first impression, only this time the medium was music. With the release of her album Everything I've Got in My Pocket (Zoë/Rounder), Driver triumphantly reinvented herself as a beguiling pop chanteuse and versatile songwriter. Featuring 10 original songs, including the winsome single "Invisible Girl," Driver's full-length recording debut is an evocative folk-pop effort that combines earnest country textures with jazz and trip-hop overtones. Classy, accomplished and imminently listenable, Everything I've Got In Pocket is the sonic equivalent of Driver's introspective dramatic performances.

Driver's musical ambitions actually predate her acting career. She began singing in London's jazz clubs as a teenager, before joining a band that landed a development deal with Island Records. "When things with Island dissolved, I began talking with EMI about a solo deal," Driver explains. "But just then Circle of Friends came along and changed everything."

Driver initially showcased her songs at 2004's Sundance and South by Southwest festivals. Accustomed to performing jazz standards, she found singing her own material to be empowering. "There is a lot to be said for standing up in front of a crowd of people and knowing exactly how to sing something, because it originated in you," Driver says.

In addition to the album, Driver's voice is featured on "Learn to be Lonely," from the film soundtrack to Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera . It's the latest volley in Driver's credible bid for music stardom.

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Doreen Ringer Ross	Alexander Desplat	BT
Vice President, BMI Film & Television	Composer, “The Upside of Anger,” “Girl With A Pearl Earring”	Composer, “The Fast and The Furious,” “Monster”

The roundtable, entitled "Music & Film: The Creative Process," will feature composers and directors on Wednesday, January 26 from 11am to 1pm at the Sundance House (Kimball Art Center, 638 Park Avenue.) Moderated by BMI's Doreen Ringer Ross, Vice President of Film/TV Relations, panelists include director/actor Kevin Bacon ("Loverboy," "Losing Chase"), BMI composer Michael Bacon ("Loverboy," "Losing Chase"), director Melissa Painter ("Steal Me," "Wildflowers"), BMI composer George S. Clinton ("A Dirty Shame," "Austin Powers"), BMI composer Rolfe Kent ("The Matador," "Sideways," "Mean Girls"), director Richard Shepard ("The Matador"), BMI composer Walter Werzowa ("The Devil and Daniel Johnston"), director Jeff Fenerzeig ("The Devil and Daniel Johnston"), BMI composer Ed Shearmur ("Nine Lives," "Charlie's Angels"), director Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her"), composer Alexander Desplat ("The Upside of Anger," "Girl With a Pearl Earring"), BMI composer BT ("The Fast and the Furious," "Monster"), BMI composer Aaron Zigman ("John Q," "The Notebook") and Sundance Composers Lab director Peter Golub.

Ed Shearmur	George S. Clinton	Jeff Feuerzeig
Composer, “Nine Lives,” “Charlie’s Angels”	Composer, “A Dirty Shame,” “Austin Powers”	Director, “The Devil and Daniel Johnston”

The third annual BMI Songwriters Snowball will also take place on January 26 at the Sundance House, from 6pm until 8pm. The show will feature acoustic performances by Interscope recording artist Vanessa Carlton, Maverick recording artist Keaton Simons, Atlantic recording artist Joe Firstman, Barsuk/Atlantic recording artist Ben Gibbard (lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service), and Zoe/Rounder Records recording artist and actress Minnie Driver.

Kevin Bacon	Melissa Painter	Michael Bacon
Director, “Loverboy,” “Losing Chase”	Director, “Steal Me,” “Wildflowers”	Composer, “Loverboy,” “Losing Chase”

Admittance to both events is for Sundance Film Festival badges, press passes or by invitation only; tickets will not be sold for these events.

Peter Golub	Richard Shepard	Rodrigo Garcia
Composer, “The Laramie Project,” and Director, Sundance Composers Lab	Director, “The Matador”	Director, “Nine Lives,” “Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her”

Rolfe Kent	Walter Werzowa
Composer, “The Matador,” “Sideways,” “Mean Girls”	Composer, “The Devil and Daniel Johnston”