Any way you look at it, Joana Vicente had a difficult job. When she assumed the post of CEO of the Sundance Institute in late 2021, the world was a year into a pandemic that made indie filmmaking, festival planning and fundraising all…
The dates for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival have been announced by the Sundance Institute. Next year, the Park City fest will be taking place Jan. 23 to Feb. 2. “While the next Sundance Film Festival is still 10 months away, we’re…
Focus Features had landed the worldwide rights to Sean Wang’s feature directorial debut Dídi, which won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. The film is set in 2008 in the San Francisco Bay Area and, according to…
Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance with this look at the difficulty and necessity of producing art in times of conflict.
Inspired by Terry Masear’s book about her work with the world's smallest birds, Sally Aitken’s documentary follows her during a busy caretaking season in Los Angeles.
Steven Soderbergh’s haunted-house movie, new films starring Kieran Culkin and Aubrey Plaza, and docs about Christopher Reeve, unionizing Amazon workers, and Argentinian cowboys are among THR critics’ favorites from the festival.
Five years after he made his directorial debut at Sundance, actor and filmmaker Chiwetel Ejiofor returned to the fest Monday with his sophomore feature, Rob Peace. The film is based on Jeff Hobbs’ 2014 book The Short and Tragic Life of…
Netflix made the largest acquisition out of Sundance 2024, paying $17 million for Greg Jardin’s psychological thriller about a reunited group of college friends and a party game gone wrong.
Dutch directing duo Steffen & Flip’s first English-language feature stars Nick Frost and Alicia Silverstone as fictional TV parents stuck in an ultra-violent episode.
Linklater, Alex Stapleton and Iliana Sosa examine the death penalty, the oil industry and strained relations on the El Paso/Juarez border in this potent anthology.
Chris Smith offers a welcome corrective to the misconception that the band from industrial Ohio were one-hit wonders or that their eccentricities didn’t have philosophical foundations.
“Everything.” That’s how veteran producer and PGA president Stephanie Allain kicked off a special panel about the ins and outs of the Sundance Film Festival and all things producing, presented by Hyundai. Taking place on Jan. 19 inside The…
The actor helms and stars alongside Mary J. Blige, Jay Will and Camila Cabello in an adaptation of Jeff Hobbs' book about a gifted young man reconciling his past and his future.
What is the Sundance Film Festival outside of Park City? Sundance Institute CEO Joanna Vicente has addressed the possibility of a move for the Sundance Film Festival out of Park City, where it has taken place since the early ’80s. Vicente…
When Jennifer Grey received the script for A Real Pain, she was — like most of the country — deeply entrenched in the final episodes of Succession. The actress, who is best known for her work in movies like Dirty Dancing and Ferris…
The debut documentary by editor J.M. Harper ('Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy') focuses on the the U.S criminal justice system's reliance on hip-hop songs to provide evidence against defendants.
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen's doc spends time with a Norwegian family after the death of their blogging matriarch, when they leave their life of rural isolation but try to hold on to her ideals.
The first feature from writer-director Kobi Libii revolves around a young artist recruited to be part of a group whose mission is to ease white people's discomfort.