When Emmy Rossum first came to the Sundance Film Festival, in 2000 for Maggie Greenwald's rustic drama "Songcatcher," she was 13 and playing a backwoods innocent with a golden singing voice.

Rossum - whose credits include "The Day After Tomorrow" and "The Phantom of the Opera" - is back at Sundance this year, age 22, starring as a high school student getting into risky sexual territory in "Dare." (Read a review of "Dare" here.)

Rossum (pictured here with "Dare" director Adam Salky) has grown up, but she doesn't think Sundance has changed that much.

"It's still the same kind of community of making films and writing films," Rossum said Monday at a Q&A at the Racquet Club Theatre. "There's just more free stuff."