[6][7] The festival also hosted several events and discussion panels around themes of success through failure titled Free Fail, which included the screening of Bottle Rocket turned down by the Sundance Film Festival in 1996 and later become independently successful.

Some of the films which were shown are Beasts of the Southern Wild, Fruitvale Station, Little Miss Sunshine, An Education, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Reservoir Dogs, The Cove, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, An Inconvenient Truth, Precious and Napoleon Dynamite.

The opening night film Whiplash used music to explore human nature and identity.

God Help the Girl, a coming of age drama with musical theme directed by Stuart Murdoch.

Australian musician Flea appears in Low Down, a biopic about American jazz pianist Joe Albany.

Also the closing night film of the festival Rudderless, told the story of a father who formed a rock and roll band to perform his late son's music.

[22][23] The awards ceremony was held on January 26, 2014 at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse in Park City, Utah,[24] and was hosted by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally.

Others who presented awards included Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy and Nick Offerman.