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The Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,660 attending in 2016. It takes place each January in Park City, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; and at the Sundance Resort (a ski resort near Provo, Utah), and acts as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Sundance Kids, From the Collection, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. History 1978: Utah/US Film Festival Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to attract more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Sterling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Sundance Film Festival
The 2022 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 20 to 30, 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic protocol it was to have been a hybrid festival, but on January 5, 2022 it was announced that the in-person components would be scrapped in favor of a virtual festival due to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 9, 2021. Films U.S. Dramatic Competition *''892'' by Abi Damaris Corbin *''Alice'' by Krystin Ver Linden *''blood'' by Bradley Rust Gray *'' Cha Cha Real Smooth'' by Cooper Raiff *'' Dual'' by Riley Stearns *''Emergency'' by Carey Williams *''Master'' by Mariama Diallo *''Nanny'' by Nikyatu Jusu *'' Palm Trees and Power Lines'' by Jamie Dack *'' Watcher'' by Chloe Okuno U.S. Documentary Competition *''Aftershock'' by Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee *''Descendant'' by Margaret Brown *''The Exiles'' by Ben Klein and Violet Columbus *''Fire of Love'' by Sara Dosa *''Free Chol Soo Lee'' by Julie Ha and Eugene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
