Redford to screen own flick at Sundance

Robert Redford has included one of his own films in his Sundance Film Festival for the first time.

The festival opens on January 15 and runs for a week near Redford’s home in Park City, Utah.

He will screen The Clearing, in which he stars as a family man taken hostage by a man from his past.

The film, which will be shown as a work-in-progress, also stars Helen Mirren and Willem Dafoe.

Other films Redford has approved for screening at the festival include Dogville, Lars Von Trier's controversial stylised drama, which stars Nicole Kidman as a woman who seeks sanctuary in a small Rocky Mountains town during the Depression.