
Sundance Institute will honor Michelle Satter, Founding Senior Director of Artist Programs at Sundance Institute at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s gala fundraiser, Celebrating Sundance Institute Presented by Google TV.

Sundance Institute will honor Michelle Satter, Founding Senior Director of Artist Programs at Sundance Institute at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s gala fundraiser, Celebrating Sundance Institute Presented by Google TV.

Sundance Institute today named the three finalist cities moving forward into the concluding review process to determine a long-term host for the Sundance Film Festival beginning in 2027.

After premiering at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, the drama film by German director Nora Fingscheidt (The Unforgiveable, System Crasher) got a US theatrical release date with Sony Pictures Classics distributing the film. ‘The Outrun’ stars four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You), Stephen Dillane (Game Of Thrones), and Saskia Reeves (Slow Horses).

Netflix launched the official trailer for Skywalkers: A Love Story a documentary film described as part romance, part thriller, following a daredevil couple, Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus as they take their relationship to terrifying new heights in a wild scheme to climb the world’s second highest skyscraper and perform a death-defying stunt on the spire.

Twelve feature films and a Mexican short film program will comprise the inaugural program of the first edition of Sundance Film Festival CDMX 2024 taking place from April 25th to 28th in Mexico City at Cinépolis Diana and Cinépolis VIP Miyana, along with projections at Cinépolis VIP Perisur, Cinépolis VIP Mitikah and Cinépolis VIP Satélite.

Sundance Institute announced the dates for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival taking place on January 23–February 2, 2025 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Sundance Institute is partnering with Cinépolis, the leading theatrical exhibition company in Mexico and Latin America, to launch the Mexico edition – Sundance Film Festival CDMX. The first edition will take place from the 25th to the 28th of April in two centrally located cinemas of Mexico City, Cinépolis Diana and Cinépolis Miyana.

In The Summers directed by Alessandra Lacorazza won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. In the film two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

The documentary As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial follows Bronx rap artist Kemba as he explores the growing weaponization of rap lyrics in the criminal-justice system.

The Masterpiece, directed and written by Alex Lora Cercos was awarded the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The short film follows a wealthy couple who meets two scrap dealers at a recycle center. Offering them more junk the wealthy couple invites them to their mansion, but the immigrants actually might be the ones with something she wants.

Sundance Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s joint Science-In-Film Initiative awarded Love Me, from filmmaker duo Sam and Andy Zuchero, with this year’s juried Feature Film Prize at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

Searchlight Pictures shared the official trailer for Suncoast, the coming-of-age drama film starring Nico Parker as a young woman dealing with her brother’s serious illness. Also starring in the film are Laura Linney, Ella Anderson, Daniella Taylor, Amarr, Ariel Martin, and Woody Harrelson