In today's print edition of The Salt Lake Tribune, the Culture Vulture column discusses the bevy of environmentally related movies that played the recently concluded Sundance Film Festival - and the coincidence of timing that Salt Lake City was inundated by a blanket of lung-choking smog during much of festival.

One interesting footnote: "The Cove," Louie Psihoyos' activist doc that gets the evidence on a secret dolphin slaughter in a Japanese fishing village, may be getting some attention in Japan. The Japan Times, the English-language daily in that country, has this story from Sundance. Whether any other news outlets in Japan pick up on it remains to be seen.

Labels: environment, Sundance