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Next Thursday, the 2010 Sundance Film Festival will kick-off in Utah, ushering in a new decade of American indie cinema. This week, before the fest begins, we’re going to spend some time pondering where we are and where we’ve been by looking at the current and recent state of the film scene.

For more than twenty years, the indie film community—the loosely connected network of filmmakers, festival programmers, critics and bloggers, executives, and others—have set their watches by Sundance. This year is no different, except that the role of this festival is changing before our eyes.