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2021 Sundance Film Festival unveils slate for first virtual edition Updated: Updated: December 16, 2020 14:24 IST The festival will kick off on Jan. 28 with the premieres of Nanfu Wang’s documentary about propaganda and COVID-19 in China Share Article AAA This image released by Sundance Institute shows a scene from ‘In The Same Breath,’ which will debut at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival   | Photo Credit: (Sundance Film Festival via AP) The festival will kick off on Jan. 28 with the pr...

Lindsey Bahr This image released by Sundance Institute shows a scene from "In The Same Breath," which will debut at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. (Sundance Film Festival via AP) December 15, 2020 - 12:43 PM A Questlove-directed documentary about the other major music event of the summer of 1969 and documentaries about the creators of Sesame Street and the coronavirus pandemic in China are among the 72 feature films debuting at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Orga...

Passing The indie film showcases pandemic-era program also has directorial debuts by Jerrod Carmichael, Pascual Sisto and Questlove with his Black Woodstock documentary. As Sundance director Tabitha Jacksons reign at the indie film festival gets well underway, the marquee indie U.S. film showcase has gone mostly online with a pandemic-era discovery lineup filled with work by women and BIPOC directors and more than half the 2021 program shot by first-time helmers. For Jackson, the focus on debut...

Sundance Film Festival unveils slate for 1st virtual edition by Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press Posted Dec 15, 2020 3:02 pm EDT Last Updated Dec 15, 2020 at 3:14 pm EDT This image released by the Sundance Institute shows Ruth Negga, left, and Tessa Thompson in a scene from "Passing." The film, a directorial debut by Rebecca Hall, will debut at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. (Sundance Film Festival via AP) A Questlove-directed documentary about the other major music event of the summer of 1...

Sundance Goes Virtual With a More Accessible 2021 Lineup Among the 72 feature films chosen for the slimmed-down festival are a Tessa Thompson racial-issues drama and a music documentary from Questlove. Ruth Negga, left, and Tessa Thompson in “Passing,” directed by Rebecca Hall.Credit...Edu Grau Dec. 15, 2020 The movies still feel like Sundance. But without the snow, the parties and all those packed premieres, will Sundance still feel like Sundance? That’s the question hanging in the air T...

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...

“Welcome to the 2021 Sundance Film Festival,” Tabitha Jackson, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, wrote on the festival’s official website. “A new chapter filled with possibilities. Despite the challenges this year has brought, nothing could stop us from celebrating independent film, visionary artists, unique perspectives, and you, our adventurous audiences. So, for the first time ever, we are bringing the festival to you—both online and in the real world across the US and beyo...

Sundance unveils pandemic lineup, Redford sons final film Issued on: 15/12/2020 - 21:50 2 min Los Angeles (AFP) Next months Sundance will be the first major festival highlighting movies made during and about the coronavirus pandemic, as organizers Tuesday unveiled a lineup featuring the final film by co-founder Robert Redfords late son. Due to Covid restrictions, the indie film extravaganza will largely leave behind its usual mountain base in the western US state of Utah, showing premieres on...

Print Perhaps the most surprising thing about the program announcement for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival released on Tuesday is how much it looks like the program announcement for any other year of the Sundance Film Festival. The festival will be dramatically changed in its form from previous years. Taking place over seven days instead of the usual 11, the 2021 festival will showcase 72 feature films, down from around 120 in 2020. The event will be an ambitious hybrid, decoupled from its usua...