
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.