Sundance 2021: A List of Black Movies to Watch While You’re in the (Virtual) White Mountains
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I’m salty. As
The Root’s Staff entertainment writer, one of the most exciting aspects of my job is being able to travel to a lot of cool places. In fact, the Sundance Film Festival typically kicks off the year of traveling shenanigans within my beat. In 2020, I flew to Park City, Utah to cover the event and had a blast (which is a privilege to have when working hard), as always.
I would’ve never known that it would be the last in-person festival I attended that year (and for an indefinite time, it seems) and that it would serve as one of the possible core hubs of the coronavirus spread in the U.S.
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2021 Sundance Film Festival announces virtual lineup
For the first time, the Sundance Film Festival is coming to screen near you.
Next month the festival – which has celebrated independent film for decades at its base in Park City, Utah – will be held virtually instead, with movies presented online from January 28 through February 3. Films will be available to stream via Sundance s digital platform across the U.S. (and, in some cases, internationally), and also will be presented on satellite screens nationwide, including arthouse cinemas, museums and drive-ins. [A complete list of venues may be found here.]
On Tuesday the festival lineup was announced. The 2021 edition of Sundance will include 72 feature films from 29 countries (the majority of which are world premieres) and 50 short films, with half of the features directed by women or non-binary individuals. Of the full slate of films, 51%, were directed by one or more filmmakers of color, 15% by one or more peopl