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Together Together starring Ed Helms are among 72 features selected for 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which runs online and in select US arthouse venues from January 28-February 3. The line-up, announced on Tuesday (December 15), includes One For The Road, Thai filmmaker Baz Poonpiriya’s follow-up to Bad Genius; Edgar Wright’s music documentary The Sparks Brothers Land; Ben Wheatley’s virus horror In The Earth; The Roots drummer Questlove’s documentary Summer Of Soul; and Kevin Macd...

Save this story for later. When the Sundance Film Festival kicks off on January 28, 2021, in Park City, Utah, there won’t be a long line of people standing outside the Eccles Theater, watching their breath catch in the cold winter air—and Main Street surely won’t be packed with revelers and sponsor activations, either. Instead, on account of the coronavirus pandemic, next year’s Sundance will actually expand amid the contraction of live events. Rather than relying solely on in-person ex...

Here are the 72 feature films in the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which will mostly screen online The festival will be shorter with limited in-person events, to avoid spreading COVID-19. (Daniel Power | courtesy of Focus Features / Sundance Institute) Robin Wright directs and stars in the drama "Land." Its an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. | Updated: Jan. 5, 2021, 12:33 a.m. With everything that will be different about the 2021 Sundance Film ...

Says they care medically and so much coming at them emotionally that theyre desensitized. tell me how the experience affected the people you shot. >> well, i would disagree with that a little bit from my perspective of highland hospital in oakland. i have a pretty intimate view. my wife out of graduate school, she got her masters in speech pathology and took a job at this hospital and thats where the antenna went up for me to tell the story. one of the thing that is surprised me was the degree, ...

Film crews in, did you have a particular story you wanted to tell or was it more just an observation of the things that happened? >> well, initially, what we wanted to do is tell a story about the uninsured from this one public institution and in the months of scouting and trying to figure out how to compress that story in to a film i would walk through the waiting room for meetings up in the executive wings and meet with the attending docs and walk through the waiting room and come back hours l...

With disease, injuries, screaming, bad smells, crippling bureaucracy and ancient magazines. nobody wants to go to an emergency room. our next guest made a documentary out today called "the waiting room." it shows a public hospital struggling to care for its community and ascribes a sense of dignity to the er. >> we are a public hospital. we are the safety net in society. we are an institution of last resort for so many people. >> come on. sit with me. you want to see the doctor today, huh? >> ye...

People and using it for a lower acuity medical issue, youre pushed to the back of the line when someone has a stroke or a heart attack. thats the thing i tried to reveal what it meant to have the waiting room serve as the place of last resort for the uninsured. >> peter, its a fascinating and important film. good luck with it. >> thank you. >> thanks for being here. we know doctors are essential in this country but what about those jobs we dont see? were going to meet a professor who set out t...