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Kathleen Johnson obituary Elisabeth Tooms My friend Kathleen Johnson, who has died aged 82, was a musician, composer and songwriter who dedicated most of her life to working for the Moral Re-Armament movement. She wrote many songs for theatre productions that toured the world for the movement, from India to Canada and the US. Kathleen was born in Whitley Bay, near Newcastle, to Anne Johnson (nee Beswick) and her husband, Fred, a tax inspector and Methodist lay preacher. The family moved to Leeds, Cornwall and eventually London with his work. She attended Horwell girls school,...

Sundance Film Festival will let you hang out in space next to the ISS (apparently) The fest's New Frontier program -- always packed with virtual reality and other tech-driven storytelling -- is pulling out all the stops next month during Sundance's mostly virtual festival. Listen - 08:13 Sundance typically takes place in Park City, Utah.  Getty Images The Sundance Film Festival is going more virtual than ever, which is saying something for the fest that helped put virtual reality on Hollywood's rada...

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 Macdonald’s Special Screenings selection Life In A Day 2020. A features roster representing 29 countr...

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 experiences, the festival has plans that extend far beyond the theater: a digital platform where patro...

Here are the 72 feature films in the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which will mostly screen online The festival will be shorter with limited in-person events, to avoid spreading COVID-19. (Daniel Power | courtesy of Focus Features / Sundance Institute) Robin Wright directs and stars in the drama "Land." It's an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. | Updated: Jan. 5, 2021, 12:33 a.m. With everything that will be different about the 2021 Sundance Film Festival — a shorter event, with fewer films, most of it happening online — the quality of movi...