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Opening night kicks off with the premieres including the Summer of Soul documentary from Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson.   Jan. 28 / 10PM (premiere)  Courtesy of Sundance Institute Making his directorial debut, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson takes viewers to the Harlem Cultural Festival, which took place three months before Woodstock in 1969. The event hosted over 300,000 people and featured Stevie Wonder, B.B. King, and Nina Simone. However, no one has seen the footage since it’s been “stored in a basement for 50 years,” according to Sundance. Until now. To Miss the Ending Courtesy...

Your Guide to the Perfect Weekend: January 27–February 2, 2021 Catch two virtual film fests, a new exhibit inspired by Shangri La, and the Punahou Carnival like you’ve never experienced it before. January 27, 2021   January 28 through February 3 Virtual film fests continue in 2021 with a special perk for Hawai‘i viewers, thanks to Honolulu Museum of Art’s Doris Duke Theatre being selected as a satellite screen for the Sundance Film Festival. Dozens of films will be presented online starting this Thursday ( check out the program here); many are already sold out so you might want to wo...

Dreamstime On January 23, 2020—the opening night of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival—the "novel coronavirus" outbreak in Wuhan, China, was still a secondary news story in the United States, with only one confirmed case in this country. While attendance was down a bit—approximately 4 percent less, according to Sundance Institute CFO Betsy Wallace—things still felt somewhat normal, with "normal" in late-January Park City being a crush of people in confined spaces, enjoying one of the preeminent int...

The Iconic Sundance Film Festival is Adopting VR to Go Fully Virtual: The New Normal? FOLLOW US ON: Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic forced people indoors and into isolation, most major events around the world have taken a virtual route. This year, the iconic Sundance Film Festival is also going virtual, but that is not limited to a mere livestream. Sundance is building an extensive virtual reality platform for attendees which can be accessed with or without a VR headset. "Having our hand forced to build a virtual solution to present New Frontier solved so many problems we were having and st...

Sundance Film Festival 2021 streams buzzy movie premieres straight to your home CNET 1/30/2021 Joan E. Solsman © Provided by CNET A still from A Glitch in the Matrix, a documentary about simulation theory (and yes, it'll reference Elon Musk). Sundance Institute The Sundance Film Festival kicked off Thursday, and for the first time, you can partake in the world's premier independent film fest -- and one of the best places to check out top virtual reality experiments -- without stepping outside your front door.  For decades, Sundance has stuffed stars, filmmakers and mov...