The 2026 Sundance Film Festival, opening Thursday, January 22nd, will mark its final edition in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, ahead of the festival's move to Boulder, Colorado in 2027. Running in person through February 1st, select titles will also be available nationwide online from January 29th. This year's festival is the first... Continue Reading →
The Sundance Film Festival returns to Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah for its 41st edition this week, with screenings running in-person from January 23rd to February 2nd. Over half the lineup will be available to audiences across the United States on-demand via the festival's online platform from January 30th to February 2nd, 2025.... Continue Reading →
Emmy-nominated editor Carla Gutiérrez, who cut the Oscar-nominated films RBG and La Corona, as well as the LGBTQ+ documentary Pray Away, makes her directorial debut with the exquisite Frida, which premiered in the US Documentary Competition at Sundance, and went on to win the festival's Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award. The film's beautifully expressive animated opening... Continue Reading →
Thursday, January 18th marks the opening of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival which runs in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah until January 28th, as well as online US-wide for the last four days of the festival. The 40th annual edition will showcase 91 features, 53 shorts, and eight episodics, with 32... Continue Reading →
The Sundance Institute has announced the six transgender storytellers of color selected for its second edition of the Trans Possibilities Intensive: Seyi Adebanjo, Rajvi Desai, Malik Ever, Nick Janaye, Jamie John, and Tee Park Jaehyung. This year's creative advisors include Sydney Freeland (Drunktown’s Finest), Aitch Alberto (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe),... Continue Reading →
When two-time Grammy nominated songwriter-producer D. Smith, who has appeared on both the Atlanta and Hollywood versions of the reality series Love & Hip Hop, had an idea for a film centering Black transgender sex workers and examining their place within the Black community, she approached several filmmaker friends with the concept. They all turned... Continue Reading →
The Sundance Institute has just announced the lineup of feature films for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, running January 19th–29th in person in Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance Resort, with select titles available nationwide online January 24th – 29th via the festival's digital platform. Of the 101 features revealed so far, 20%... Continue Reading →
Chase Joynt's Framing Agnes was among the LGBTQ+ winners at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival—announced on Friday January 28th—honored with both the NEXT Innovator Award and the NEXT Audience Award. “This film simply grabbed me, taking me on a ride, questioning and re-questioning what was "real"," commented NEXT juror, Transparent creator Joey Soloway. "What an... Continue Reading →
UPDATE: Screens at the 40th Anniversary Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival on Sunday, July 17th at 7pm at Harmony Gold. Rita Baghdadi's feature documentary Sirens, which world premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, is a nuanced, intimate, and upbeat portrait of Lebanon's only all-female thrash metal band, Slave to Sirens. Although it opens... Continue Reading →
With a screenplay by Lauren Pomerantz (SNL, The Ellen DeGeneres Show), wife and wife co-directors Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne refashion the romcom by placing a platonic female friendship at its centre. Now both in their early thirties, Lucy (Dakota Johnson) and Jane (Sonoya Mizuno) have been best friends since high school. It's become comfortable... Continue Reading →
