DOWN AND DIRTY Photos chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers and of the twin motors – the Sundance Film Festival and Miramax Movies – that have powered them. Peter Biskind information the individuals who took the independent movement from obscurity to the Oscars, especially Sundance founder Robert Redford and Harvey Weinstein, who along with his brother, Bob, made Miramax an indie powerhouse. Candid, penetrating and controversial, DOWN AND DIRTY PICTURES is crucial – read for anyone thinking about the film globe. “In SMART PICTURES, Biskind assumes the movie market from the 1990s and again gets the tale….Peter Biskind captures his era while John Dunne did that of the Zanucks.” Frank Rich, The New York Occasions “Dishy, teeming, superbly reported…filled with lively inside anecdotes…[a] juicy and fascinating expose.” – Entertainment Weekly