Fun fact: The snowflake logo for the Festival was composed of hundreds of individual symbols, each representing an iconic film or aspect of the Festival experience. Offscreen highlights included a performance by Ice-T in conjunction with the premiere of his directorial debut, Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap , and panels and discussions with director Spike Lee, journalist David Carr, and actress Julie Delpy, among others. Dramatic and U. Half of the films in the U.
Dramatic Competition were directed and written by women, most of them first-time filmmakers. Richard Linklater returned to the Festival with the third chapter in his great cinematic love story Before Midnight. Fun fact: Between and , approximately 20 million feet of 35mm film were screened at the Festival. Stretched end to end, the film would reach from New York to Paris.
On the 30th anniversary of the Festival, Sundance Institute president and founder Robert Redford spoke about how the Sundance Film Festival had evolved over the previous three decades. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and U. Dramatic Audience Award and went on to win three Academy Awards, including best supporting actor for J.
Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the U. Documentary Audience Award. Fun fact: Nearly 20 years before premiering Dope and winning the U. Famuyiwa also attended the Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Labs with The Wood , which was released in theatres in The film was met by standing ovations at all of its screenings, and it was sold for a record-breaking sum to Fox Searchlight. Another story that arose was the formal diversity of the program.
New for was the Special Events section, an evolving category that included episodic work, short films, and live performances. The Birth of a Nation and Sonita won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, marking the third time in Festival history that films from two categories each won both awards. Fun fact: New Frontier celebrated its 10th anniversary of cutting-edge media, fine art, and the vast potential and possibilities of storytelling with the presentation of nearly 40 VR works.
The Festival brought environmentalism front and center, with 14 films and virtual reality experiences on the subject—including follow-up films Chasing Coral Jeff Orlowski's sequel to Chasing Ice and Al Gore's much-anticipated Day One film An Inconvenient Sequel. And 25 years after its Sundance premiere, Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs returned for a special anniversary screening as part of the From the Collection category.
Off of the screen, an independently organized Women's March featuring such speakers as Dolores Huerta, Chelsea Handler, and Jessica Williams brought an estimated 8, people to crowd Main Street on the third day of the Festival the second day of Donald Trump's presidency , joining millions of others across the country in similar demonstrations.
Zwicker quoted approximately 4, total submissions for feature films, and Barrera 9, for shorts. Of these, only or so features make it in each year, and about shorts. The good news? The programmers were emphatic that each and every film submitted is watched in its entirety. Even in these direst of poop-eating circumstances, programmers are marshaled onward by the promise of discovering something great. Ultimately, final film line-ups are created an eye towards balance and diversity, and inevitably good movies are sometimes squeezed out.
But sometimes all a film needs is the support of a single programmer. The programmers reminded the audience of a few key upcoming deadlines: August 29 for features regular deadline and September 26 for shorts. But before you scramble to export a final cut to submit, Barrera and Zwicker want you to know some important advice for putting your best foot and Vimeo link forward. Whereas big blockbusters and major theatrical releases are often created, funded, and distributed by studios — think Paramount, Sony, Disney, and Warner Bros.
When an independent film gets selected for Sundance, its chances of being acquired by a studio like Lionsgate or Sony Pictures Classics or an independent distributor like A24 or Neon go way up. In recent years, streaming companies like Netflix, Amazon Studios, and Hulu, have had deep pockets for acquisition at Sundance.
Those companies have also been turning to producing their own original content in recent years, which resulted in none of them acquiring any films at the festival in But they all acquired several films, particularly documentaries, in Industry insiders will be watching closely in , since a number of new streaming services from companies with a lot of money to spend, including Disney, Apple, and HBO, may be looking to diversify their offerings with Sundance acquisitions.
Some Sundance films are acquired before the festival even starts, but many films that play at the festival are hoping to generate enough notice and buzz to get sold — hopefully to a distributor that can put enough marketing dollars behind them to translate to box office returns and even awards season buzz. But first, a film has to make it into Sundance. The chances of being selected are slim. In , 3, feature-length films were submitted for consideration along with 10, short films.
According to Sundance , 1, of the feature film submissions were from the US, and 2, were international. Since its beginning, the festival has also featured a competition, with a jury of experienced filmmakers, festival directors, and experts awarding prizes to movies playing at the festival.
In all, nearly 30 prizes are given out; some of the more high-profile prizes, like the Grand Jury Prize, help films gain a foothold with audiences and with other festival programmers. These are the accolades you often see plastered across the posters for hopeful arthouse hits.
Audiences also fill out ballots to vote on audience prizes. The festival also programs movies — and sometimes non-movies — that are there not to compete, but rather to cater to the movie lovers who attend.
There are special events and screenings of films that premiered at other festivals. And there are musical performances , panel discussions , and star-studded conversations , most of which are aimed at filmmakers and others in the industry. Brands like Chase Sapphire, Acura, and Stella Artois sponsor the festival and set up shop in locations all over town, with showrooms, stages, and spots for festivalgoers to sit and have a cup of coffee.
Journalists interview filmmakers and review films. At the Sundance Film Festival, as we prepare to return to in-person screenings in Utah, alongside the online.
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