NET-36 Provides Streaming Content Delivery for 2001 Sundance Film Festival

Business Wire, Jan 24, 2001

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

GREENWICH, Conn. and PARK CITY, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2001

NET-36(TM), a PanAmSat (NASDAQ: SPOT) company and provider of satellite-based Internet broadcast services, announced that it is providing streaming content delivery for the Sundance Online Resource Center during the Sundance Film Festival (Jan. 18 - 28), produced by Internet Studios.

NET-36's content delivery network is enabling a rich multimedia view of many of the Film Festival program activities during the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. The programming includes clips and stills from many of the 200 films at the festival and is accessible during and after the Festival at www.sundance.org and www.sundanceonlineresourcecenter.org.

"The Sundance Film Festival is one of the world's premiere cinema events and we are proud to be working with Internet Studios, in association with the Sundance Online Resource Center, to introduce the filmmakers' creativity to a global Internet audience," said Bill Moses, president of NET-36 and senior vice president, PanAmSat. "The NET-36 satellite-to-edge architecture bypasses up to 95 percent of Internet congestion points and makes content accessible to broadband households through partnering last-mile service providers."

The Sundance Online Resource Center is located at the new Sundance Digital Center, a site created for the public and Festival attendees to experience and explore the changing landscape of filmmaking technology. The Sundance Digital Center will host filmmakers and technology experts working on the cutting edge of motion picture production.

In connection with the Sundance Digital Center, a series of Digital Dialogues featuring leading filmmakers and technologists will be examining issues facing today's filmmakers, including 24P technology, electronic cinematography, digital cinema, broadband distribution, and the Internet. NET-36's president, Bill Moses, was a speaker in the January 21 session, "The Future of Broadband."

"I am delighted that NET-36 will join us in the debut of the Sundance Online Resource Center at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. NET-36 will enable us to promote the festival programs online and reach wider audiences than in previous years," said Ian Calderon, director of digital initiatives and Founding Trustee of the Sundance Institute.

About PanAmSat

PanAmSat is a leading provider of global video and data broadcasting services via satellite. The company builds, owns and operates networks that deliver entertainment and information to cable television systems; TV broadcast affiliates, direct-to-home TV operators, Internet service providers, telecommunications companies and corporations.

With 21 spacecraft in orbit today, PanAmSat has the world's largest commercial geostationary satellite network. The company will expand its global fleet to 23 spacecraft by mid-2001. For more information on PanAmSat, visit the company's Web site at http://www.panamsat.com.

About NET-36

NET-36 is an IP-based broadcast distribution network that leverages PanAmSat Corporation's 16-year heritage of fast, reliable, scalable, and secure video broadcast services. Through a global satellite network that covers 98 percent of the world's population, NET-36 enables content producers to broadcast streaming media to DSL providers, cable headends, ISP's, and broadband wireless providers.

NET-36 ensures that Internet subscribers with high-speed access receive media streams at the same high fidelity in which the content existed at the content provider's origin site - untainted by Internet congestion. For more information, visit http://www.net-36.com.

About the Sundance Institute

The Sundance Institute is a multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to the development of artists of independent vision, both national and international. Filmmakers, writers, theatre artists, and composers are among the creative individuals supported by Sundance. The Institute seeks to offer the artistic and professional resources that will best realize new talent in an atmosphere of encouragement, collaboration, freedom of expression and freedom to experiment.

Through its mission to explore the artistic possibilities of filmmaking, and its emphasis on supporting films with unique stories and rich characters, the Institute promotes aesthetic diversity in contemporary filmmaking. It nurtures creativity and innovation in artists from other disciplines and encourages the infusion of perspectives from a range of art forms into filmmaking.

The Institute's newest endeavor is the Sundance Documentary Film Program. The mission of this program is to nurture the growth of nonfiction filmmakers, encourage the exploration of innovative nonfiction storytelling, and promote documentary exhibition to a broader public. Additionally, Sundance fosters the development of new work for the American theatre.

Its theatre program has a long-term interest in the creation of work for children and offers teacher-training programs in the arts. Another project recently inaugurated by the Institute is the Sundance Collection at UCLA, an archive dedicated to the collection and preservation of independent film.