🔥 sundance film festival: What You Need to Know Right Now!
Key Overview
The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. From 1981 through 2026 the festival took place every January in Park City, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; and at Sundance Resort (a ski resort near Provo, Utah), and acted as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers.
Notability
Notability
Many notable independent filmmakers received their big break at Sundance, including Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Todd Field, David O. Russell, Steve James, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Soderbergh, Darren Aronofsky, James Wan, Edward Burns, Damien Chazelle, Lee Isaac Chung, Jane Schoenbrun, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman, A. V. Rockwell and Jim Jarmusch.
Growth of the festival
Growth of the festival
The festival has changed over the decades from a low-profile venue for small-budget, independent creators from outside the Hollywood system to a media extravaganza for Hollywood celebrity actors, paparazzi, and luxury lounges set up by companies not affiliated with Sundance.
Controversy
Controversy
In 2022, Sundance programmed and hosted the world premiere of the documentary film Jihad Rehab directed by Meg Smaker. Soon after its premiere, the film would be embroiled in controversy as one of the film's executive producers, Abigail Disney described the film as "freaking brilliant" in an email to the director before disavowing the film later on.
Directors
Directors
Geoff Gilmore – 1991–2009 John Cooper – 2009–2020 Tabitha Jackson – 2020–2022 Eugene Hernandez – 2022–present
Awards
Awards
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic Audience Award Dramatic Directing Award Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Documentary Audience Award Documentary Directing Award Documentary Alfred P. Sloan Prize
See also
See also
List of Sundance Film Festival award winners List of Sundance Film Festival selections Sundance TV Indiewood List of American independent films
Further reading
Further reading
Anderson, John; Morgan, David (2014) [2000]. Sundancing: Hanging Out And Listening In At America's Most Important Film Festival. Harper Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-06-228747-2. OCLC 877987502. Partial preview of 2013 ed. at Google Books. Biskind, Peter (2004). Down and Dirty Pictures : Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-86259-0.
External links
External links
Official website "Marketing-Vehikel der amerikanischen Filmindustrie: das Sundance Filmfestival in Park City, Utah: Grass und dunkle Tunnel" [Marketing vehicle of the American film industry: the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah: Grass and dark tunnels]. Berliner Zeitung (in German). February 1, 2000. Retrieved December 31, 2024. "Sundance Film Festival". indiewire.com. April 2, 2016.
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