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Virtual 2021 Sundance Film Festival opens on a screen very near you
COVID-19 has shaken up Hollywood this past year, and the ramifications are still being felt in the snow-covered mountains of Utah, the traditional site of the Sundance Film Festival. This year, the festival, which has been a bellwether of independent moviemaking for more than three decades, will be presented online for the first time, streaming narrative and documentary films from around the world, beginning Thursday, January 28, through February 3.
Most features have two screenings scheduled (along with Q&As with the filmmakers), for which tickets may be purchased. But beware: these virtual screenings can sell out just like real ones.
With Virtual Panels and Events, Sundance Hopes to Bring the Park City Experience Home
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Sundance always has pride of position when it comes to the festival calendar: as the first major fest of the year, it often sets the tone for the 12 months of far-flung festival galas and premieres to come. But the 2020 edition of the Park City, Utah, event has an unusual distinction: it was one of only a few fests to take place as normal before the cloud of COVID obscured all the face-to-face interactions that make a film festival more than just a place to watch way too many movies.
Comedian Maria Bamford returns to SF Sketchfest s virtual 2021 event. (Courtesy of Pat Mazzera / spinningplatters.com) 22 Fun Things to Do This Week (1.25.21)
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Jan 24, 2021
Raise your hand if you could use a solid belly laugh! Yeah, we thought so. Get ready to LOL at SF Sketchfest s Festpocalypse, a virtual showcase of standup comedy, music, and more with headliners Maria Bamford, Kids in the Hall, David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, Margaret Cho, and more this week.
Plus, DIY a Causwells cheeseburger, stream Sundance Film Festival flicks, and enjoy the hundreds of magnolias now blooming at San Francisco Botanical Garden.
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