Luxury Clelbrity Gift Bags to Premiere at the Upcoming Sundance Film Festival - Acclaimed Ultimate Comfort Bag to Benefit A Place Called Home Charity

Luxury gift suite to be featured at upcoming Sundance Film Festival geared specifically for celebrities. Ultimate Comfort Bag online auction to benefit charity, A Place Called Home. Details about how to bid on the amazing items that the stars are getting inside.

(PRWEB) January 17, 2005 -- At this years Sundance Film Festival celebrities will get a lot more than great films and beautiful scenery. They will also be offered the most expensive, decadent gift bags ever distributed to celebrities at a luxurious suite at the Park City Marriott located in the heart of the festival, outdoing last years record setting giveaway.

This years giveaway, valued at upwards of $50,000 will benefit an exceptional charity, A Place Called Home*. A luxurious gift bag will be autographed by the celebrities who visit the ULTIMATE COMFORT SUITE at Sundance Film Festival and will then be up for bid online. The charity auction listing will be managed by Kompolt. The signed ULTIMATE COMFORT BAG will be on eBay, The Worlds Online Marketplace®. Just go to www.ebay.com/ultimatecomfortbag to place a bid from January 31, 2005-February 10, 2005 on this amazing gift bag. Proceeds from the winning bid will be donated to the foundation.

Film publicist Jim Dobson, designer Maria Lyons and leading gift bag company Jewels and Pinstripes joined forces for this years ULTIMATE COMFORT BAG and SUITE out of sheer necessity to keep their celebrity clients happy and also after discovering that most goodie bags ended up in garbage cans. The luxury suite is by invitation only and further customizes the Ultimate Comfort Bag experience. Guests will select the luxe items they want in their individualized Ultimate Comfort Bag. I wanted to create a bag that stars would keep as well as tailoring each bag to individual celebritys tastes. The happier the celebrities are at Sundance, the more willing they are to work with the press" says Dobson.

The gift bag worth up to $50,000 features such luxury items as:

- "Experience the Indy 500" private race-car and track access, plus first class airfare/hotel ($15,000)
- Sea Dream Yacht Club week long vacation to Caribbean or Mexico ($11,000)
- Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas $1,000 chip, Weekend in the Penthouse, Spa ($5,000)
- Marquis Los Cabos, Mexico Resort vacation ($4,000)
- Très Jolie Custom Jewelry ($900)
- Maria Lyons Suede and Leather custom garment bag
- Clarks/ Privo Shoes His and Hers Gift Certificates" ($450)
- Kookoon pure silk comforters ($400)
- Jimmyjane Midnight Special, temptation in a tote" ($300)
- BathQol hand made t-shirts ($300)
- Pangaya Eco-Friendly Clothing and personal care items ($250)
- Ike Behar custom dress shirts ($195)
- Sleepyheads personalized chenille robes ($150)
- Sharis Berries chocolate covered strawberries ($100)
- GAP Perfume Oils ($100)
- The Mustard Sprout Marshall" Daddy Backpack ($80)
- French Rags initialed cashmere scarfs ($75)

Celebrities that will receive custom bags this year include; Sandra Bullock, Sarah Jessica Parker, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close, Kevin Costner, Danny Devito, Marisa Tomei, Tom Hanks and many others.

For more information or to get jpeg images of the Ultimate Comfort Bag please contact Jim Dobson at starpr@aol.com or by calling (323) 896-6006, or Dana Valenzuela at Velvet Communications 323-262-7533. If you'd like to learn more about the items in the Ultimate Comfort Bag visit www.ultimatecomfortbag.com

About Indie PR
Jim Dobson owns Indie PR, one of the nations leading entertainment public relations firms representing a wide variety of feature films at film festivals and release.

About Maria Lyons
Designer Maria Lyons is the owner of Maria Lyons, Inc., a Los Angeles-based design and consulting firm. She is focused on bringing exciting, new, trend-driven product to a worldwide audience and aiding new designers on how to break into the marketplace. Lyons works with several designers to create specialized products that aid in raising money for various charity organizations.

About Jewels and Pinstripes
Jewels and Pinstripes specializes in charity VIP thank you gifts and donates a portion of placement fees to the charity. At the heart of every special event are those few people who bring everything to life. For these extraordinary individuals, thank you" just isnt enough. Jewels and Pinstripes gift bags are a perfect compilation of sumptuous, unique items as distinctive as their recipients and an exceptional expression of gratitude. www.jewelsandpinstripes.com

About A Place Called Home
A Place Called Home's mission is to provide at-risk youth with a secure, positive family environment where they can regain hope and belief, earn trust and self respect and learn skills to lead a productive lifestyle free of the gangs, drugs and poverty that surrounds them. www.apch.org

About Kompolt
Kompolt was retained to manage the listing. Kompolt is the highly regarded go-to" online auction agency for creating successful, high value, and high profile promotional and charity auctions for top brand companies and nonprofits. For more information, go to www.kompolt.com.

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