Sundance fest a family affair for Kurt Russell

PARK CITY, UTAH -

Kurt Russell made the Sundance film festival a family affair.

The actor, 62, split his time between various relatives at Robert Redford's celebration of independent cinema, attending premieres for three films.

His daughter, Kate Hudson, 34, co-stars in Zach Braff's "Wish I Was Here." Son Wyatt Russell, 27, appears in the crime thriller "Cold in July." And more members of the Russell clan pop up in "The Battered Bastards of Baseball," a documentary about Russell's father, Bing, directed by his nephews Maclain and Chapman Way. (Russell's longtime partner Goldie Hawn was also in town briefly, but she left to deliver a speech about meditation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.)

Russell's father was a character actor - he played Deputy Clem Foster on "Bonanza" - who in 1973 decided to start an independent minor-league baseball team in Portland. Bing Russell died in 2003.

"The thing about my dad that was interesting," Russell said, "is that he was a very, very smart guy. He was very schooled. He was a Dartmouth grad. He was a business grad. He was a businessman. There was also this side of him - he was theatrical. He loved entertaining. And at the heart of his soul, he was a baseball player."

Russell has several film projects in the works, including the next "Fast & Furious" and the Alaska-set "Race to Save Nome." And there's one other priority.

"What I'm most interested in right now is opening up the wine saloon at the 1880 Union Hotel, in Los Alamos, Calif. I make really high-end pinot and chardonnay. I love wine," Russell said.