Sundance has announced its slate of short films - 96 of them, including works directed by actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt ("Stop-Loss") and Brady Corbet ("Funny Games"), animators Bill Plympton ("Your Face") and Don Hertzfeldt ("Everything Will Be OK") and Oscar-winning documentarian Jessica Yu ("Breathing Lessons").

The two interesting things about the shorts program:

1. Ten of the shorts will be available for free download on iTunes.
2. For the first time, the shorts competition winners will be announced in a separate ceremony, on Tuesday, Jan. 20. (Previously, the shorts winners were announced during the big-enchilada Awards Night on the festival's final Saturday - where they were usually ignored as the feature winners were announced.)