The Sundance Film Festival , a program of the Sundance Institute, is held annually in Park City, Utah. With over 46,660 participants by 2016, this is the largest independent film festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, as well as at Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new work by independent American and international filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive parts for American and international dramatic films and documentaries, both film and short films, and a group of parts outside the competition, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Premier, and Documentary Films. The Sundance Film Festival 2018 runs from January 18 to January 28, 2018.
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Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978, as a Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to attract more filmmakers to Utah. The company was founded by Sterling Van Wagenen (then head of Wildwood, Robert Redford's company), John Earle, and Cirina Hampton Catania (both serving at the Utah Film Commission at the time). The 1978 festival featured films such as Deliverance, Street Street Named Desire, Midnight Cowboy, Mean Streets, and The Sweet Smell of Success . With the chairman of Robert Redford, and Utah Governor Scott M. Matheson's help, the purpose of the festival is to showcase American-made films, highlight the potential of independent films, and to improve the visibility of filmmaking in Utah. At the time, the main focus of the event was to compete for independent American films, presenting a series of retrospective films and film panel discussions, and to celebrate the Frank Capra Awards. The festival also highlights the work of regional filmmakers working outside the Hollywood system.
The jury of the 1978 festival was led by Gary Allison, and included Verna Fields, Linwood G. Dunn, Katharine Ross, Charles E. Sellier Jr., Mark Rydell, and Anthea Sylbert.
In 1979, Sterling Van Wagenen was left to head first pilot program of what became the Sundance Institute, and James W. (Jim) Ure briefly took over as executive director, followed by Cirina Hampton Catania as executive director. More than 60 films were screened at the festival that year, and the panel featured many famous filmmakers in Hollywood. Also that year, the first Frank Capra Award was given to Jimmy Stewart. The festival also generates profit for the first time. In 1980, Catania left the festival to pursue a production career in Hollywood.
Several factors helped to encourage the growth of the Utah/US Film Festival. The first is the involvement of actors and Utah residents Robert Redford, who became the festival's first chairman. With the name Redford associated with the festival, it gained great attention. Second, the country is hungry for more places that will celebrate American-made films as the only other festival that did so at the time was the USA Film Festival in Dallas (est. 1971). The response in Hollywood was unprecedented, because the big studios did everything they could to contribute their resources.
In 1981, the festival moved to Park City, Utah, and changed the date from September to January. The move from late summer to mid-winter was done by executive director Susan Barrell with the collaboration of Hollywood director of Sydney Pollack, who suggested that running a film festival at a ski resort during winter would attract more attention than Hollywood. It's called the US Film and Video Festival.
Change to Sundance
In 1984, the now established Sundance Institute, led by Sterling Van Wagenen, took over the management of the US Film Festival. Gary Beer and Van Wagenen pioneered the production of the inaugural US Film Festival presented by Sundance Institute (1985), which included Program Director Tony Safford and Administrative Director Jenny Walz Selby. The branding and marketing transition from the US Film Festival to the Sundance Film Festival is managed under the direction of Colleen Allen, Allen Advertising Inc., with the appointment of Robert Redford. In 1991, the festival was officially renamed the Sundance Film Festival, after the characters of Redford Sundance Kid from the film Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid.
Sundance London
The UK-based publisher C21 Media was first revealed in October 2010 that Robert Redford plans to bring the Sundance Film Festival to London, and in March of the following year, Redford officially announces that Sundance London will be held at The O2, in London from 26- April 29, 2012; the first time he traveled outside the US.
In a press statement, Redford said, "We are excited to partner with AEG Europe to bring a piece of American culture to life in an inspired setting of The O2, and in this rich cultural history... [...] This is our common goal to bring to the UK, the best in today's independent American cinema, to introduce the responsible artist to it, and in essence help build our country's image that broadly reflects the diversity of the sound that is not always visible in our cultural exports. "
The majority of screenings, including the premiere of the festival, will be held at Cineworld Cinema in the entertainment area of ​​O2. Sundance Festival London 2013 is held 25-28 April 2013, and sponsored by Jaguar car maker.
Sundance London 2014 takes place on April 25-27, 2014 in the O2 arena. The London 2015 Sundance Festival was canceled in an announcement on January 16, 2015. Sundance London returns to London from 2-5 June 2016 and returns 1-4 June 2017, both at Picturehouse Cinema in West End London.
Sundance Hong Kong
Inaugurated in 2014, Sundance Film Festival: Hong Kong runs from September 22nd to October 2nd, 2016 and is scheduled for September 21st until October 1st 2017. It's held at The Metroplex in Kowloon Bay every year.
Sundance at BAM
From 2006 to 2008, Sundance Institute collaborated with the Brooklyn Music Academy (BAM) in a special series of film screenings, performances, panel discussions, and special events that bring institute activities and festival programs to New York City.
Notability of festivals
Many independent filmmakers are known for their great pauses at Sundance, including Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Todd Field, David O. Russell, Steve James, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Soderbergh, Darren Aronofsky, James Wan, Edward Burns, and Jim Jarmusch. The festival is also responsible for bringing wider attention to films such as Saw , Garden State , Super Troopers Witch Project, Whack a Monkey, Dog Banners , Primer , In Bedroom , Better Luck Tomorrow , Little Miss Sunshine , Donnie Darko , El Mariachi , Month , Officials. , Thank You for Smoking , Gender, Lies, and Videotape , The Brothers McMullen from Summer , Napoleon Dynamite , Whiplash, Boyhood, and Exit .
Three Seasons was the first in the history of the festivals to have received the Grand Jury Award and the Audience Award, in 1999. Then the film that won both awards was: The Dead God Tired We in 2006 (documentary category), QuinceaÃÆ'Â ± era in 2006 (dramatic category), Valuable in 2009, Fruitvale > (then titled Fruitvale Station ) in 2013, Whiplash in 2014, I and Earl and the Dying Girl < i> The Birth of a Nation in 2016.
At the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, three films went on to win eight Oscar nominations. Manchester by the Sea leads in Sundance-supported movies with six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. The following year, about 40 films were purchased by distributors, including Amazon, Netflix, Lionsgate, and Universal.
Festival growth
The festival has changed for decades from low-profile places for small budget creators, independent from outside the Hollywood system to media extravaganza for Hollywood celebrity actors, paparazzi, and lavish lounges founded by companies not affiliated with Sundance. The organizers of the festival have tried to limit this activity in recent years, starting in 2007 with the ongoing Focus On Film campaign.
The 2009 Film Official Rejection documented the experiences of small filmmakers attempting to enter festivals in the late 2000s, including Sundance. The film contains several arguments that Sundance has been dominated by major studios and sponsoring companies. A contrast was made between the 1990s, in which non-famous filmmakers with small budget films could get distribution deals from studios like Miramax Films or New Line Cinema, (like Kevin Smith Clerks), and the year 2000s, when major stars with millions of dollars films (such as The Butterfly Effect with Ashton Kutcher) dominate the festival. Kevin Smith doubted that the Employee , if made in the late 2000s, would be accepted at Sundance.
Many small festivals have sprung up around Sundance in the Park City area, including Slamdance, Nodance, Slumdance, It-dance, X-Dance, Lapdance, Tromadance, Film Town Film Festival, etc., although all but Slamdance is no longer held.
Including the Sundance changes made in 2010, a new programming category titled "NEXT" (often denoted only by the character "& lt; = & gt;", meaning "less is more") was introduced to showcase innovative movies that are able to exceed budget limits independent. Another recent addition is the Sundance Film Festival USA program, in which eight festival films are featured in eight different theaters across the United States.
Board of Directors
- Geoff Gilmore - 1991-2009
- John Cooper - 2009-present
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In popular culture
In August 1998, the animated television series "South Park" episode "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls" described the Sundance Festival directors moving it to a "different small mountain town," from the main setting of the South Park show, to "drain and turn it into a new LA. "
In the episode "Hollywood A.D." of Fox Xyl Films, Fox Mulder is relieved that the fictitious movie The Lazarus Bowl about his work will never be screened at the Sundance Festival.
In the television series Entourage, an independent film starring Vincent Chase at ( Queens Boulevard ) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2005, where his popularity began to increase.
In the animated television series "The Simpsons" "Every Given Sundance", Lisa Simpson enters a documentary about her family into the Sundance Film Festival.
In Season 7, Episode 22 of One Tree Hill , Julian Baker took his movie Seven Dreams Till Tuesday to the festival.
Referenced in Season 3, Episode 12 of Gilmore Girls when Paris Geller told Rory Gilmore to "save his acting for Sundance."
In Season 1, Episode 5 of Matt and Jay flew to Utah after Matt convinced Jay that their amateur movie was received overnight, where Matt hijacked a completely different movie projection.
See also
- List of Sundance Film Festival winners
- List of Sundance Film Festival options
- Sundance Channel
References
Further reading
- Anderson, John. Sundance: Hanging Out And Listening in America's Most Important Film Festival . Harper Paperbacks, 2000.
- Biskind, Peter. Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and Rise of Independent Movies . Simon & amp; Schuster, 2004.
- Craig, Benjamin. Sundance - A Virgin Festival's Guide: Survive and Grow in the Most Important Film Festival in America. Cinemagine Media Publishing, 3rd ed., 2016, ISBNÃ, 0-9541737-8-3.
- Smith, Lory. Feast in the Box: The Sundance Film Festival Story . Gibbs Smith Publishers, 1999.
- Staff. "Sundance Film Festival". IndieWire . Archived from the original on May 4, 2016.
- Gaita, Paul (December 2, 2009). "Sundance Film Festival announces the 2010 competition lineup". Los Angeles Times .
- von Roon, Alexander. "Grass and dark Tunnels: Sundance is a Marketing Tool for the US Film Industry", Berliner Zeitung 2000.
External links
- Official website
- Sundance Film Festival 1985-1996
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