Sundance Film Festival

  • MURDER IN BIG HORN Trailer. Showtime Documentary on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Premieres at Sundance

    Murder in Big Horn official trailer and release date
    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
    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
    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

    When You Left Me On That Boulevard
    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

    Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields - 2023 Sundance Film Festival feature film 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 honored at Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance
    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 - 2023 Sundance Film Festival
    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
    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

     2023 Sundance Film Festival 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.

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  • Focus Features to Release BRIAN AND CHARLES, Jim Archer’s Sundance Breakout Film

    Brian and Charles by Jim Archer.
    Brian and Charles by Jim Archer. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

    Focus Features acquired Brian and Charles, the Sundance breakout film directed by Jim Archer (who also directed the original short film). It stars David Earl, Chris Hayward, Louise Brealey, James Michie and Nina Sosanya. This marks Archer’s feature directorial debut after cutting his teeth shooting comedy sketches with friends before writing and directing several short films culminating in winning gold at the Young Director Awards in Cannes for the short film version of Brian and Charles.

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  • Sinead O’Connor Sundance Documentary NOTHING COMPARES Acquired by Showtime

    Sinéad O'Connor in Nothing Compares by Kathryn Ferguson
    Sinéad O’Connor appears in Nothing Compares by Kathryn Ferguson. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Andrew Catlin.

    Showtime acquired Nothing Compares directed by Kathryn Ferguson (Taking the Waters, Space to Be), the documentary charting Sinéad O’Connor’s phenomenal rise to worldwide fame and examines how she used her voice at the height of her stardom before her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on Sinéad’s prophetic words and deeds from 1987 to 1993, the film presents an authored, richly cinematic portrait of this fearless trailblazer through a contemporary feminist lens.

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  • IFC Films to Release RESURRECTION, Sundance Psychological Thriller Starring Rebecca Hall

    Rebecca Hall in Resurrection by Andrew Semans.
    Rebecca Hall in Resurrection by Andrew Semans. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Wyatt Garfield.

    IFC Films and Shudder acquired Resurrection, the psychological thriller written and directed by Andrew Semans (Nancy, Please), starring Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman and Michael Esper, that premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

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