Focus Features debuted the official trailer for Polite Society, the action comedy film starring Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya, Nimra Bucha, Akshay Khanna, Seraphina Beh, and Ella Bruccoleri, set to world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
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POLITE SOCIETY Trailer. Nida Manzoor’s Action Comedy Premieres at Sundance
Priya Kansara in Polite Society by Nida Manzoor | Photo by Parisa Taghizadeh.
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Marlee Matlin, W. Kamau Bell, Destin Daniel Cretton Among Jury for 2023 Sundance Film Festival
2023 Sundance Film Festival – Jury Marlee Matlin, W. Kamau Bell and Destin Daniel Cretton are among the 16 jurors granting awards for artistic and cinematic excellence at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, including the five jury members who awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Film Prize.
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2023 Sundance Film Festival Unveils Beyond Film Lineup – Barry Jenkins, Dakota Johnson, Jonathan Majors and More
Top L–R: Dakota Johnson, Jonathan Majors, Randall Park, Marlee Matlin Bottom L–R: Zackary Drucker, Sophie Barthes, Priya Kansara, Kimberlé Crenshaw Rounding out the lineup for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, the festival revealed the Beyond Film conversations featuring three series called Power of Story, Cinema Café, and The Big Conversation. Beyond Film provides a place for the community to engage through artist conversations, filmmaker panels, and audience discourse. Beyond Film will take place in-person from January 19–23, 2023, with the Beyond Film offerings becoming available to audiences across the country on the online Festival Platform starting January 24, 2023.
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MURDER IN BIG HORN Trailer. Showtime Documentary on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Premieres at Sundance
Murder in Big Horn by Razelle Benally and Matthew Galkin | photo by Jeff Hutchens, courtesy of SHOWTIME Showtime revealed the official trailer for Murder in Big Horn, a new documentary exploring the deaths of a group of Native American women in rural Montana, making its premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2023.
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Sundance Film Festival 2023 Adds New Films + Encore Screenings of CODA and Summer of Soul
CODA and Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) at Sundance Film Festival 2023 Five world premiere feature films, plus four award-winning feature films from previous Festivals have been added to the 2023 Sundance Film Festival lineup. The 2023 Festival will take place January 19–29, 2023, in person in Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance Resort, along with a selection of films available online across the country January 24–29, 2023.
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Luca Guadagnino to Receive International Icon Award at Sundance Film Festival
Luca Guadagnino Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino will receive the International Icon Award at Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance on January 19 in Park City. Guadagnino will join previously announced honorees of the evening, Ryan Coogler, W. Kamau Bell, and Nikyatu Jusu. Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance will kick off the 2023 Sundance Film Festival by honoring inspiring and breakout storytellers whose journeys have been connected to Sundance throughout the years while raising funds and awareness for the Institute.
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2023 Sundance Film Festival Reveals Short Film and Indie Episodic Lineup
Kailyn Dulay, Whitney Agustin and Gina May Gimongala in When You Left Me On That Boulevard by Kayla Abuda Galangi, an official selection of the U.S. Shorts program at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Rajinee Buquing 64 Short Films and 4 Indie Episodic projects have been selected for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. This upcoming year’s Short Film program includes work from 23 countries and the Indie Episodic represents works from five countries.
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2023 Sundance Film Festival Announces Feature Films Lineup
Brooke Shields appears in Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields by Lana Wilson, an official selection of the Premiers Program at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Getty Sundance Film Festival unveiled the 99 feature-length films representing 23 countries at the 2023 festival set to take place January 19–29, 2023, in person in Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance Resort, along with a selection of films available online across the country January 24–29, 2023.
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Sundance to Honor Ryan Coogler, W. Kamau Bell and Nikyatu Jusu at Inaugural Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance Event
Ryan Coogler, W. Kamau Bell and Nikyatu Jusu Sundance announced the inaugural edition of Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance, an evening that kicks off the Festival by honoring inspiring and breakout storytellers whose journeys have been connected to Sundance throughout the years while raising funds and awareness for the Institute. Ryan Coogler will receive the Sundance Institute | Variety Visionary Award, the Vanguard Award for nonfiction will be presented to W. Kamau Bell and the Vanguard Award for fiction will go to Nikyatu Jusu.
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2023 Sundance Film Festival Reveals First Films – Restorations of SLAM and THE DOOM GENERATION
SLAM and The Doom Generation [Sundance] Sundance revealed the first two films in the lineup for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival – the 25th Anniversary and digital restoration screening of SLAM and the uncensored director’s cut and restoration of The Doom Generation.
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Eugene Hernandez Leaves New York Film Festival to Become Sundance’s Festival Director
Eugene Hernandez | Photo Credit: Henny Garfunkel Sundance Institute announced that Eugene Hernandez will be the next Director of the Sundance Film Festival and head of public programming. He is the fourth official Festival Director in the Sundance Film Festival’s history. He joins the Sundance Institute from Film at Lincoln Center (FLC), where he has spent the past 12 years, most recently as Senior Vice President of FLC, Executive Director of the New York Film Festival, and publisher of Film Comment.
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2023 Sundance Film Festival Announces Dates
Sundance Film Festival Sundance Institute announced the 2023 Sundance Film Festival will take place as a hybrid festival in Park City, Salt Lake City, Utah, and beyond, from January 19 through January 29, 2023.