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Courtesy of Sundance Institute The crop of documentaries that premiere at the Sundance Film Festival is always wide-ranging, both in style and in content. And this year’s selections were no exception, even if the 2021 festival was an unusual one, having largely migrated to digital platforms. They ran the gamut from dramatic explorations of refugees’ experiences to funny and heartbreaking looks at American high schools to experimental films about technology’s effects on our lives. The world is a wide, wide place, and documentary filmmakers are committed to exploring it, celebrating it, a...

10 Sundance films that tackled the pandemic (Even if they didn’t mean to) by Angie Han (Even if they didn’t mean to) by Angie Han On the same day that the Sundance Film Festival kicked off last year, Wuhan, China, went into lockdown — not that many festival goers seemed to take much note of it at the time. A year later, however, it's become impossible to miss. The coronavirus seemed to be everywhere I looked during Sundance 2021, starting with the experience itself — virtual, of course, in deference to the ongoing crisis. It was also all over the movies themselves, not onl...

7 films to know from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival Three films from Sundance 2021, from left to right: CODA, We're All Going to the World's Fair, Judas and the Black Messiah Image: Sundance Institute / mashable composite 2021-02-05 15:03:38 UTC For obvious reasons, the Sundance Film Festival looked a little different this year. Instead of Park City theaters crowded with snow boots and puffer jackets, the films played in front of audiences of one or two on the couch at home. Q&As took place over YouTube, post-screening chatter via tweets and texts.  But as always, there were the films: b...

Courtesy of Sundance Institute Early in 2020, when we still had hope that the spread of Covid-19 would be suppressed in a few weeks or months and we’d be back to our lives in short order, film critics joked about what the 2021 Sundance Film Festival selection would be like. Dramas about parents trapped at home with their kids for a few weeks and having a personal revelation. Quirky romances between quarantined roommates. Zoom-mediated comedies. That sort of thing. Back then, nobody dared think the festival itself would be held online — it was too hard to imagine. But by fall the (wise) de...

After the First Virtual Sundance, Four Writers Compare Notes What worked online? What didn’t? And which films stood out? When you’re watching from home, feel-good movies don’t always have the same effect. Oscar the Grouch and his pal Caroll Spinney in the Sundance documentary, “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street.”Credit...Luke Geissbühler Feb. 5, 2021 At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, there were the usual premieres and Q. and A. sessions, breakouts and crowd-pleasers — but no actual crowd. Because of the pandemic, the Park City, Utah, event was pared back and conduct...