New York, Jan. 5, 2006 – We got excited for a minute when we heard that Sundance would be showing films at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. No more schlepping up mountains and pretending to want to try snowboarding! We could just take in the festival remotely. But it seems that to be on film’s cutting edge, Brooklynites will have to leave their $3 million brownstones for Park City, Utah, or wait until May to see the Sundance offerings. That’s when they’ll land at BAM, said the Sundance Kid himself, Robert Redford, yesterday at a press conference at the Brooklyn institution. Local officials also took the podium; at one point during a speech, a cell phone rang and a sheepish Redford pulled his out and turned it off. Also at the presentation was TV renovation king Bob Vila, and actor Steve Buscemi, who The Reeler blogger Stu VanAirsdale chatted with over the free lunch.