A Sundance Offshoot in Brooklyn? Such a move would put the venerable movie bazaar in more direct competition with the Tribeca Film Festival, which is overseen in part by Geoffrey Gilmore, Sundance's former director. Sundance on Friday denied a report in The New York Post that said talks were under way to create a "large-scale" New York offshoot. "There is no truth to rumors of plans for Sundance Institute to host a film festival in Brooklyn in the immediate future," a spokesman said in a statement. But "in the immediate future" may be the key words. While no formal discussions have taken place, the New York City Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting has been informally advised of a potential collaboration between Sundance and the Independent Filmmaker Project, a nonprofit group that will manage a new Brooklyn-based media center, set to open in the coming months. Sundance's flagship festival this year runs Jan. 17 to 27 in Park City, Utah. In recent years Sundance's organizers - facing increasing competition for the spotlight from festivals like Tribeca - have stepped up efforts to expand programming to other cities and countries. A four-day London festival started last year. Correction: Jan. 11, 2012 A previous version of this post misstated the status of a Sundance screening series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. That series has ended.