Sundance is all about film, but many of those films have ties to books and authors. Here are authors appearing at Park City bookstores and other venues during the Sundance Film Festival.

Dolly's Bookstore, 510 Main St.:

• Jan. 19, 3-4 p.m.: Todd Grossman, Shooting Action Sports. Grossman has produced and directed many action sports films and documentaries and competed professionally in skateboarding, snowboarding, and inline skating.

• Jan. 20, 1-2 p.m.: Anthony Artis, The Shut Up and Shoot DV Documentary Guide. Films by Artis, manager of New York University's film school, have appeared everywhere from the Tribeca Film Festival to MTV.

• Jan. 20, 3-4 p.m.: David Bagby, Dance with the Devil, a raw memoir spawned by the murder of his only child. The film "Dear Zachary," about the Bagby's travails, will premiere at Slamdance Film Festival.

• Jan. 21, noon to 1 p.m.: Louise Levison, Filmmakers and Financing. Levison is president of Business Strategies, a consulting firm specializing in writing business plans for film and other entertainment-related companies. Her company raised money for "The Blair Witch Project," the most profitable independent film in history.

• Jan. 21, 1-2 p.m.: Alex Gibney and Laila Nabulsi, Gonzo: A book of Photographs and Archives by Hunter S. Thompson. Nabulsi one of the book's editors and Gibney is director of the documentary "GONZO," at the Sundance Film Festival.

• Jan. 21, 4-5 p.m. and Jan. 24, 6-7 p.m.: William E. Marks, Water Voices from Around the World. Marks has traveled the globe researching and is featured in the Sundance Film "FLOW: For Love of Water." His coffee table book includes 400 photographs.

• Jan. 23, noon to 1 p.m.: Monika Skerbelis & Rona Edwards, I Liked it, Didn't Love it: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out. Skerbelis and Edwards have more than 25 years of experience in the film industry and are the founders of ESE Film Workshops Online.

• Jan. 24, 3-4 p.m.: Lloyd Kaufman, Make Your Own Damn Movie, The Toxic Avenger. Kaufman is a legendary cult director, rogue filmmaker, and author. Director of "The Toxic Avenger" "Night of the Chicken Dead," he is founder and host of the Tromadance Film Festival, now in it's 9th year at Park City.

The Sidecar, 333 S. Main St.:

• Jan. 19, 3-4 p.m.: Panel discussion about the book-to-film process with producer Jeff Sharp, Harper group publisher Michael Morrison and Eli Gottlieb, author of Now You See Him. Filming on the project is due to begin next fall.

Spotted Frog Bookstore and Wine Bar, 1635 W. Redstone Center Drive:

• Jan. 23, 4 p.m.: Thomas deWolf, Inheriting the Trade. Author and panel discussion with a family whose ancestors were in the slave trade, profiled in the Sundance film, "Traces of the Trade."