Most years, films that debut at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, reach limited albeit influential audiences.
Festival-goers, film critics and prospective distributors view films shown at the long-running independent film festival, but months can pass before they are given wide distribution.
This year, the pandemic prompted festival organizers to forgo the usual event in Park City. Instead, films are being made available online and at partnering “satellite screen” theaters across the country including the Gateway Film Center, which began showing festival programming Thursday.
Among the beneficiaries of the unusual arrangement is a new documentary that tells an unusual slice of film history: Co-directed by Swedish filmmaking couple Kristian Petri and Kristina Lindstrom, “The Most Beautiful Boy in the World” concerns the fate of a young actor who appeared in Luchino Visconti’s 1971 film adaptation of Thomas Mann’s novella “Death in Venice.”
The Sie Film Center on East Colfax Avenue, Sept. 3, 2018.
Something is happening this year in Colorado that has never happened before: The Sundance Film Festival is coming to show movies during its festival heyday.
Since its inception in 1978, the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, has blossomed from a modest event in a ski resort town to a snowy bonanza of movies, stars and parties. It’s an event so big, the local grocery store can barely keep up with the rush on tea supplies and snacks. There are lavish parties where celebrities and patrons have the same dress code: puffy snow jackets, snow boots, sweaters and jeans. Hotel lobbies become landmarks to meet people and charge a phone.
11 Hot Movies for Sale at Virtual Sundance Film Festival
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All-night bidding wars are as much a staple of the Sundance Film Festival as snow drifts and thin air. The mountaintop gathering highlights the best of indie film and shines a light on the next generation of Tarantinos and Soderberghs. This year looks different. Sundance will go virtual in 2021 due to COVID-19. But that doesn’t mean that studio executives and agents aren’t going to be working the phones just as furiously. Here’s a look at films that have the goods to inspire streaming services and indies to go toe-to-toe in the hopes of landing the next “Palm Springs” or “Promising Young Woman.”
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Sundance 2021 Market: 15 Movies That Could Sell Big in a Year of Virtual Discovery IndieWire 1/25/2021
In 2020, the Sundance Film Festival kicked off with a splashy premiere for Netflix’s new Taylor Swift documentary. When the 2021 edition gets underway on Thursday, there will be none of that. As a virtual affair, this year’s Sundance is a back-to-basics event, one where a plethora of smaller-scale films without distribution will vie both for awards and acquisition.
But don’t let the relative lack of A-list names suggest that sales activity will be sluggish. Amid a dearth of production, streaming arms race, and the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel coming into view, buyers are hungry for new product.