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Sundance Institute plans to launch a film festival in Indonesia this summer Sean P. Means © Provided by Salt Lake Tribune (Mike Stack | Salt Lake Tribune file photo) The National Monument and city skyline in downtown Jakarta, Indonesia, in October 2017. Sundance Institute announced on March 11, 2021, that it would hold the first Sundance Film Festival: Asia in Jakarta in late summer 2021. There will be a Sundance Film Festival that people can attend in person this year — in...

Sundance Film Festival in Asia to launch this summer March 11, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail NEW YORK (AP) — The Sundance Film Festival is coming to Jakarta, Indonesia this summer, the Sundance Institute and XRM Media said Thursday. The Sundance Film Festival: Asia will launch sometime in late summer with films from the 2021 festival, a delegation of filmmakers, travel restrictions depending, and Sundance Lab initiatives aimed at Asian talent. “We have long wanted to deepen our connection to th...

Ana Katz, The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet, 2021, DCP, black-and-white, sound, 73 minutes. THE PRIZES WERE AWARDED a month ago, some very big deals have closed in recent weeks, and the Sundance Film Festival has closed its streaming platform, hopefully never to be used again—at least not as the primary means of connecting Sundance’s chosen movies to Sundance audiences. Having covered the festival for thirty-two years, the place—Park City, Utah—and my ten-day routine there is stamped int...

The Sundance Film Festival saw its biggest-ever audience with a digitally-focused 2021 edition.

G. Allen Johnson February 5, 2021Updated: February 11, 2021, 1:08 pm “CODA” plays on the opening night of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival at Fort Mason Flix in San Francisco. . Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and this year’s Sundance Film Festival might be the beginning of an evolutionary period for one of the most important events on the world’s film calendar. “We need to make sense of this festival that just hap...

Even in a world turned upside-down and an all-virtual Sundance, the movies survive Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post Feb. 5, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5Teenage girls in Texas are at the center of "Cusp."Parker Hill, Isabel BethencourtShow MoreShow Less 2of5Students Celine Lu, Jimmy Qiu, Alvan Cai in "Try Harder!"TRY HARDER! filmShow MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5Mavis Staples and Mahalia Jackson in "Summer of Soul," a festival standout and directorial debut of Ahmir "Questlove" Thomp...

After the First Virtual Sundance, Four Writers Compare Notes What worked online? What didn’t? And which films stood out? When you’re watching from home, feel-good movies don’t always have the same effect. Oscar the Grouch and his pal Caroll Spinney in the Sundance documentary, “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street.”Credit...Luke Geissbühler Feb. 5, 2021 At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, there were the usual premieres and Q. and A. sessions, breakouts and crowd-pleasers —...

Awards for the 2021 Sundance festival were presented Tuesday evening. The festival, which was held virtually online for the first time, started on Thursday and ends today.

Sundance from home: A virtual wrap on 2021’s unprecedented all-digital festival [Los Angeles Times] This year’s Sundance Film Festival, its first virtual incarnation, ran Jan. 28 to Feb. 3 and Times film staffers were collectively glued to our TVs, laptops, smartphones and other devices to join in the annual celebration of independent cinema. Critic Justin Chang and reporters Mark Olsen and Jen Yamato discuss a most unusual festival experience and nod to some standout films and a few rather...

The 15 Best Films We Saw at Sundance Eliott Grover, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The 2020 Sundance Film Festival was one of the last major events of its kind –– or any kind –– to take place before the world changed forever. With little time to prepare a viable pivot, other festivals like SXSW and Cannes were forced to cancel. As the pandemic raged through the summer and into the fall, Sundance organizers understood that they would have to radically reimagine their event in order to...