An international slate of films has won the five Oscar-qualifying awards at Aspen Shortsfest. Aspen Film, which hosts Shortsfest, will screen all of the award-winning films Tuesday night at the Arts Campus at Willits.
“WOW NANNY,” I texted to one of my Sundance critic pals she on the West Coast, me on the East after I had viewed Nikyatu Jusu’s debut feature, which a few days later won the grand prize in the festival’s US Dramatic competition. Except for a few screenings in seven “Satellite” locations across the US, the 2022 Sundance Film Festival was entirely virtual. Given that the decision to put everything online was made only two weeks before the January 20 opening date, it was amazing how smoothly things went. I streamed about thirty-five of the festival’s ninety-eight features without a glitch, and