Some interesting Sundance Film Festival facts

Sundance officials are reporting the following numbers in the 2010 Press and Industry Guide:

- 9,816 total submissions, up from last year's 9,293 (most are short films)

- 105 world premiers

- 23 first-time feature filmmakers

- 53 female filmmakers

- 9 Native and indigenous films

- 41 countries represented at the festival, including Austria, Bangladesh, Cuba, Estonia, Greenland, Iraq, Kenya, New Zealand, Peru, Senegal and Switzerland

- 36 languages spoken in festival films

- 1,020 accredited press covering the festival this year

- 26 countries represented by press

- 1,523 volunteers making the festival happen.

There you have it - Sundance by the numbers