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PLENTY of famous Aussies will be walking the snow covered streets of Park City, Utah, in January when screen legend Robert Redford hold s his annual Sundance Film Festival.

Naomi Watts, Toni Collette, Radha Mitchell, Deborra-Lee Furness and newcomer, Rachael Taylor, all have films playing at what is arguably the world’s most influential independent movie festival.

Sundance organisers today unveiled the 121 films that will play at the festival, which begins on January 17.
An invite to the festival is highly-coveted by filmmaker s as the exposure can lead to a major Hollywood film studio buying the movie.

Sundance is also viewed as a launching pad for the Oscars, with the buzz generated from a film’s world premiere at the festival often carrying it to glory at the Academy Awards a year later.

January’s festival will have more star wattage than usual, with films starring Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, William H. Macy, Meg Ryan, Colin Farrell and Charlize Theron also entered.

It will also have a rock ‘n roll flavour, with U2 3D, a d ocumentary following the Irish rock group’s Vertigo world tour slated to have its world premiere at Sundance.

The documentary is shot in 3D.

Watts, who has been a regular visitor to Sundance, stars in th e horror film, Funny Games, USA, about a family taken hostage by two serial killers.

Collette’s entry is the drama, Towelhead, a story about a 13-year-old Arab-American girl navigating her way through adolescence . Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello and Summer Bishil are also in the movie.

Furness is part of an all-star cast featuring Theron, Dennis Hopper and Woody Harrelson in the drama, Sleepwalking, about a young man forced to look after his abandoned niece.

Tasmanian actress Taylor, who starred in this year’s box office smash Transformers, continues her rise in Hollywood with the drama, Bottle Shock, about a blind wine tasting in Paris in 1976 that is credited with launching the California wine industry.

Taylor’s co-stars are Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Freddy Rodriguez and Eliza Dushku.

Mitchell’s Sundance film is the comedy, Henry Poole is Here, with Luke Wilson.