Sundance Channel Launches VOD Service

LOS ANGELES: A new video-on-demand service from Sundance Channel offers documentaries and international films endorsed by Sundance festival founder Robert Redford, often available the same day as the movies’ theatrical release.

Sundance Selects will debut August 26 with Spike Lee’s documentary Passing Strange: The Movie. The service will be available on cable systems from Comcast Corporation, Cox Communications and Cablevision Systems, reaching some 50 million U.S. households. The service will launch with five other titles animated film Mary and Max, Unmade Beds and documentaries Complete History of My Sexual Failures, Kassim the Dream and Nick Nolte: No Exit. The number of titles will increase as the service reaches more homes.

Sundance Channel plays films and shows aimed at art-house and independent film fans and is owned by Cablevision unit Rainbow Media Holdings.