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Even in a world turned upside-down and an all-virtual Sundance, the movies survive Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post Feb. 5, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5Teenage girls in Texas are at the center of "Cusp."Parker Hill, Isabel BethencourtShow MoreShow Less 2of5Students Celine Lu, Jimmy Qiu, Alvan Cai in "Try Harder!"TRY HARDER! filmShow MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5Mavis Staples and Mahalia Jackson in "Summer of Soul," a festival standout and directorial debut of Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson.Mass Distraction MediaShow MoreShow Less 5of5 For the first time in its history, the Sundance Fi...

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...

Awards for the 2021 Sundance festival were presented Tuesday evening. The festival, which was held virtually online for the first time, started on Thursday and ends today.

Sundance from home: A virtual wrap on 2021’s unprecedented all-digital festival [Los Angeles Times] This year’s Sundance Film Festival, its first virtual incarnation, ran Jan. 28 to Feb. 3 and Times film staffers were collectively glued to our TVs, laptops, smartphones and other devices to join in the annual celebration of independent cinema. Critic Justin Chang and reporters Mark Olsen and Jen Yamato discuss a most unusual festival experience and nod to some standout films and a few rather puzzling decisions by the festival’s awards juries. JUSTIN CHANG: At a normal Sundance Film Festi...

The 15 Best Films We Saw at Sundance Eliott Grover, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The 2020 Sundance Film Festival was one of the last major events of its kind –– or any kind –– to take place before the world changed forever. With little time to prepare a viable pivot, other festivals like SXSW and Cannes were forced to cancel. As the pandemic raged through the summer and into the fall, Sundance organizers understood that they would have to radically reimagine their event in order to save it. The 2021 festival, which concluded yesterday, was entirely virtual. Some other festivals, ...