Sundance Film Festival – Page 2

2022 Sundance lineup announced: new films from Dakota Johnson, Regina Hall, Michael Kenneth Williams and more

Erik Anderson December 9, 2021

82 Features, 6 Indie Episodic, 15 New Frontier Projects to Debut The Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of Feature Film, Indie Episodic, and New... Read More

2022 Sundance Film Festival will continue online component, require all in-person attendees to be vaccinated

Erik Anderson August 3, 2021

The next Sundance Film Festival is scheduled for January 20–30, 2022 Today, Sundance Film Festival Tabitha Jackson announced that next year’s festival will adapt what... Read More

NEON picks up Jamila Wignot’s Alvin ‘Ailey’ doc out of Sundance

Erik Anderson January 31, 2021

NEON made its second acquisition of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, with Jamila Wignot’s Ailey, the moving and intimate portrait of dance legend Alvin Ailey. The film... Read More

NEON snaps up ‘Flee’ after Sundance premiere

Erik Anderson January 29, 2021

NEON had made the first acquisition out of this year’s Sundance, with North American rights to Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Flee. In an overnight bidding war on the... Read More

Julie Dash, Cynthia Erivo, Raúl Castillo among 2021 Sundance Film Festival jury members

Erik Anderson January 22, 2021

22 celebrated voices across film, art and culture will bestow this year’s awards on feature-length and short films at the Sundance Film Festival, at a... Read More

Sundance 2021 adds ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ as world premiere

Erik Anderson January 12, 2021

The nonprofit Sundance Institute today added two more world premiere feature films to the 2021 Sundance Film Festival lineup. Shaka King’s Fred Hampton film Judas and... Read More

Sundance 2021 lineup low on high-profile films but increases representation and accessibility of festival

Erik Anderson December 15, 2020

Award-winning actresses Robin Wright and Rebecca Hall will world premiere their debut feature films; women and BIPOC filmmakers make up 50% of the lineup of... Read More

2021 Sundance Film Festival shortens fest, pushes date

Erik Anderson August 6, 2020

The 2021 edition of the Sundance Film Festival have decided to reduce the amount of days of their normally 10-day fest to seven, and pushing... Read More

Trailer for Sundance thriller ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ from Academy Award nominee Dee Rees

Erik Anderson January 23, 2020

Adapted from the Joan Didion novel of the same title, The Last Thing He Wanted is set against the nebulous milieu of the Iran-Contra scandal.... Read More

Trailer: True story crime drama ‘Lost Girls’ from Liz Garbus with Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie

Erik Anderson January 16, 2020

When 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert mysteriously disappears one night, her mother Mari (Academy Award nominee Amy Ryan) embarks on a dark journey that finds her face... Read More