Sundance Institute
Next week, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival begins but not in any way we ve ever experienced it before. The annual independent film showcase has gone almost entirely virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a smaller slate of films, and people around the world will have a chance to experience the programming from their own homes.
One thing that remains the same, however, is the question of what to watch with the time (and tickets) you have. Sundance has always been a place for discovery, including many first-time filmmakers, meaning that some of the best work only emerges once the festival has begun. So how can you get a sense for what you might be interested in?
Illustration In her 1891 poem Hope is the thing with feathers, Emily Dickinson compared hope to a bird. The bird perches in the soul, she wrote, and keeps singing even in the harshest circumstances. One hundred and 30 years later, a sighting of that particular bird would be most welcome. In the first week of January, 1.15 million people filed initial claims for unemployment benefits, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. On January 13, one week after armed rioters seized the U.S. Capitol, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump for incitement of insurrection making Trump the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice. That same day, more than 3,900 people in the United States died of COVID-19 and 230,476 new coronavirus infections were reported, according to the
Joshua Schupp-Star getting vaccinated Joshua Schupp-Star can give you many reasons why he volunteered to join the clinical trial of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine at the University of Vermont s Vaccine Testing Center. All can be summarized in one word: hope. After receiving my first dose, I got a taste of the freedom that existed before the pandemic, said Schupp-Star, who is among the 284 volunteers in Vermont to receive an as-yet-unapproved vaccine made by British-Swedish drug manufacturer AstraZeneca. It s such a liberating feeling to walk around in the community knowing that my body had some protection against the virus that has caused so much suffering in the world.
Celebrities who have returned to normal jobs as Danielle Lloyd launches herself as a travel agent
Fame can be fickle, which is why it s important to establish a side hustle away from showbiz.
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