Sundance Institute Announces Key Updates for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival

Posted by Larry Gleeson

Festival to kick off in individual January 19 and develop on-line with on-demand curated program starting January 24

PARK CITY, UTAH The nonprofit Sundance Institute in the present day introduced preliminary particulars for the upcoming 2023 Sundance Film Festival, going down from January 19-29, 2023.

Designed with the precedence of bringing the Sundance neighborhood again collectively in theaters to look at and expertise subsequent 12 months’s culture-shaping tales, the Sundance Film Festival begins in individual, in Utah in Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance Resort, on January 19 and runs by means of the twenty ninth. Beginning on Tuesday, January 24, the Festival expands, welcoming audiences throughout the nation to view choose movies on-line.

The digital providing showcases an on-demand, curated number of characteristic movies from the 2023 Festival, together with all competitors titles (U.S. Dramatic, U.S. Documentary, World Cinema Dramatic, World Cinema Documentary, and NEXT), in addition to thrilling work throughout different sections of the characteristic movie program, alongside episodic work and quick movies. The 2023 Festival culminates with weekend screenings of this years Sundance Awardwinning movies on January 2829, each in individual and on-line.

Audiences globally can expertise a regenerated version of New Frontier that tunes to in the present day’s occasions, emphasizing impartial inventive apply and environmental engagement at the crossroads of movie, artwork, and new media expertise. New Frontier will characteristic a cutting-edge lineup of multimedia works and keynote discussions on a bespoke spatialized digital platform starting January 24 when the on-line portion of the Festival kicks off. For the previous two years, New Frontier has supplied audiences with a gold-standard vacation spot to expertise the Festival collectively whereas bodily aside.

 

“We are excited to bring the Sundance community together for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, a celebration of independent filmmaking. After two years of being apart, our priority is reuniting in person, while still sharing bold new films with audiences across the country through online access, said Joana Vicente, CEO of the Sundance Institute. Weve designed this years Festival based on our learnings from previous years embracing the traditions that have been meaningful in the past, while also looking toward accessibility for audiences and expanding the platform we provide our storytellers.”

The well being and security of the Sundance Institute employees, artists, volunteers, and audiences stays of the utmost significance to the Institute. The Sundance Institute continues to work with its COVID-19 security crew and are following all CDC pointers. All employees and volunteers working the Festival shall be required to masks and take a look at weekly. Sundance can be requesting that attendees put on masks in all Sundance Film Festival areas to maintain themselves and different Festival neighborhood members protected whereas encouraging all attendees to check earlier than attending and through the Festival and to be updated on all COVID-19 vaccinations.

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival shall be led by Sundance Institute CEO Joana Vicente. The Festival is programmed by a year-round crew headed by Director of Programming Kim Yutani, together with Senior Programmers: Shari Frilot (additionally Chief Curator of New Frontier), John Nein (additionally Director of Strategic Initiatives), Mike Plante (Shorts), Charlie Sextro, Basil Tsiokos, Heidi Zwicker; Programmers: Ash Hoyle, Adam Montgomery, Sudeep Sharma, Ana Souza, Ania Trzebiatowska, and Stephanie Owens, who joins the crew. The shorts programming crew contains Emily Doe, Lisa Ogdie, Adam Piron, Mike Plante, DaManuel Richardson, Saidah Russell, Amanda Salazar, Irene Suico Soriano, Landon Zakheim, and Heidi Zwicker. Coordinators supporting the crew embrace Cameron Asharian, Kat Hazelton, and Kelly Young. The full programming crew is supported by programming associates and screeners.

 

We cant wait for our 2023 Festival to provide a daring begin to the 12 months, with the assist of our inspiring storytellers, ingenious creators, and engaged audiences, mentioned Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming. For 39 years, the Sundance Film Festival has been a stalwart in the impartial movie neighborhood, and had been thrilled to proceed to be such an thrilling annual gathering for artists and audiences.

 

Program Submissions are presently open. They shut on the following dates: Feature movie submissions shut September 5 (official) and September 26 (late), 2022. Short movie submissions shut September 5 (late), 2022. New Frontier submissions shut September 9 (late), 2022. Episodic content material submissions shut August 26 (official) and September 12 (late), 2022. Details on purposes, together with often requested questions, can be found here.

Members of the skilled neighborhood accredited by means of the Press and Industry workplaces could have entry to the 2023 program in individual and on-line by means of on-demand viewing home windows. In-person attendance is being prioritized with a restricted variety of on-line P&I badges out there.

Information on ticket packages and venues shall be introduced in late September. Stay updated at festival.sundance.org, and go to lodging.sundance.org to assist plan your keep at the Festival.

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As a champion and curator of impartial tales, the Sundance Institute offers and preserves the house for artists throughout storytelling media to create and thrive. Founded in 1981 by Robert Redford, the Institute’s signature Labs, granting, and mentorship packages, devoted to growing new work, happen all through the 12 months in the U.S. and internationally. Sundance Collab, a digital neighborhood platform, brings a worldwide cohort of working artists collectively to be taught from one another and Sundance Advisors and join in a inventive house, growing and sharing works in progress. The Sundance Film Festival and different public packages join audiences and artists to ignite new concepts, uncover authentic voices, and construct a neighborhood devoted to impartial storytelling. Sundance Institute has supported and showcased such tasks as Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), CODA, Flee, Passing, Clemency, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Zola, On the Record, Boys State, The Farewell, Honeyland, One Child Nation, The Souvenir, The Infiltrators, Sorry to Bother You, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Hereditary, Call Me By Your Name, Get Out, The Big Sick, Mudbound, Fruitvale Station, City So Real, Top of the Lake, Between the World & Me, Wild Goose Dreams, and Fun Home. Join Sundance Institute on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.