Given the prevalence of TV camera crews roaming Park City every January, it's no surprise that some political activists follow the smell of coaxial cable and try for a little face time.

This year, there's the possibility of gay-rights protesters (picketing the Cinemark-owned Holiday Village Theaters, because of the Cinemark CEO's support of California's Prop. 8) and the annual march of PETA members (this time targeting fur-loving Vogue editor Anna Wintour, subject of the documentary "The September Issue") making some noise.

The civil-rights group CORE - the Congress of Racial Equality - may also show up at Sundance, according to this KSL report, to decry Sundance founder Robert Redford's support of a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management's attempt to sell oil and gas leases in Utah wild lands.

CORE's Nigel Innes argues that blocking oil drilling harms poor people, by raising fuel prices. (As I noted on the Culture Vulture blog, CORE receives money from ExxonMobil - and has been accused of selling out its civil-rights heritage to become a shill for the energy industry.)

The real fun of the KSL report is the file footage of Redford, in his '70s mustache (at right), walking around Utah's rocky landscape with Dan Rather.