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The 26th edition of Sundance Film Festival will take place January 21st -31st, 2010, in Park City, near Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah.

Yo También (Me Too) has been selected to participate in the United States at the prestigious Sundance International Film Festival, founded by Robert Redford in 1981.

The movie was filmed by the Basque production company Alicia Produce and got several awards. Pablo Pineda and Lola Duenas claimed the best actor and actress Silver Shell awards for their performances in the world premiere of Yo, Tambien at the 57th edition of San Sebastian Film Festival in 2009.

The film is about a 34-year-old college-educated man with Down syndrome and his free-spirited co-worker forge an unconventional relationship. Yo También, the theme song of the movie, by La Casa Azul, is turning into a huge hit in Spain.

The Festival chooses 12 to 16 movies to compete in each of its four category: "US Documentary", "US Dramatic", "World Cinema Documentary" and "World Cinema Narrative". The Festival''s programmers chose, from among more than 9,800 movies and documentaries sent for the 2010 edition, "works that take risks and that tell a story in its entirety". As a result, a total of 113 full-length features from 31 different countries and among them, Yo Tambien (Me Too).

The winners will be known on January 31st.