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June 29, 2005
Sundancer's New Heroes role
Robert Redford talks to MSNBC about "The New Heroes," his collaboration withJeff Skoll, co-founder of eBay and head of the Skoll Foundation: "What we do at Sundance, at the nonprofit suit at Sundance focusing on independent film, is to raise the voices of independent people around the world, to increase diversity, as some areas might be shrinking. For me, the idea of using film—I mean, Jeffrey is a social entrepreneur. And he's bringing the idea forward of social economics and social responsibility and putting it in a form. The role that I would play would be to do what I do. I'm more on the art end or the content end. That is to use film in a way other than just something as restrictive as just straight-out entertainment. Saying, is there a way that we can take these people, who need to be celebrated, their voices need to be heard, and who can be so inspiring to other people when they see the courage and the commitment that they exhibit around—from an impoverished position, sometimes against incredible odds of corporate greed and corruption? But that's the reason that I'm involved, because it ties to a lot of things I've tried to do over 30 years in my work and particularly in the environment to raise awareness about what's at stake. That's my role in this."
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