RealNetworks is jumping into the crowded market for online film sites with its new Film.com. The introduction is tied to the Sundance Film Festival, which Film.com is providing blog coverage of.

There are plenty of sites offering movie information and trailers (for example, the venerable Internet Movie Database), and there is a surfeit of film blogs such as Ain’t It Cool News. What Real has that other film sites don’t – aside from the felicitous URL – is streaming movies.

Real will offer a Film.com Movie of the Week, a free stream of a full-length movie, accompanied by information, interviews, and background on the movie and its creators. Real said Film.com will showcase established and up-and-coming filmmakers and their films throughout 2007.

Viewers might have to wait until Real cuts a deal for movies from established filmmakers. For the nonce, Real is limited to up-and-comers, through a relationship with GreenCine, which is making its library of independent titles available to Real. GreenCine is yet another movie site; it has a VOD service, a Netflix-like rental service, and it sells films on physical DVD disks.

The first movie to be featured on Film.com is “24 Hours on Craigslist,” by Director Michael Ferris Gibson and Zealot Pictures & Heretic Films, documenting a random day-in-the-life on Craigslist San Francisco.

Real said it is accepting submissions from independent filmmakers for potential inclusion in the Film.com Movie of the Week program.