Sundance Film Festival 2021 is going to take place virtually via a feature-rich from January 28 to February 3, 2021. Puza Snigdha reports.
The largest film in US the Sundance Film Festival celebrates bold, creative, and distinctive voices. The festival will feature 72 feature films, 50 shorts, four indie episodic series, and 14 “new frontier” projects.
The festival usually held in Salt Lake City, Utah. This year the festival is taking place digitally due to COVID and will be a mixture of online screenings and satellite screenings.
Attendances are allowed to join the virtual waiting rooms, participate in live Q&As.
The line-up of 72 films to premiere next January has been released.
The full line-up includes 5 Asian titles–
• “Fire in the Mountains”- India, Director and Screenwriter Ajitpal Singh, Producers: Ajay Rai, Alan McAlex.
• “One for the Road”- from China, Hong Kong &Thailand. Director: Baz Poonpiriya, Screenwriters: Baz Poonpiriya, Nottapon Boonprakob, Puangsoi Aksornsawang, Producer Wong Kar Wai
• “Writing With Fire”- India, Directed and Produced by Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh.
• “In The Same Breath”- Director Nanfu Wang.
• “Prisoners of the Ghostland”- Director: Sion Sono.
On the opening night of the festival it will showcase two narrative features- “CODA” by Sian Heder and “One for the Road” by Baz Poonpiriya; It will include documentaries- “Summer of Soul,” Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s “Flee” and Nanfu Wang’s “In the Same Breath” and a midnight film “Censor” by Prano Bailey Bond.
The Premieres section includes the highest-profile films such as Robin Wright’s “Land,” as well as Edgar Wright’s “The Sparks Brothers,” a documentary about Ron and Russell Mael and the rock band Sparks; Ben Wheatley’s “In the Earth and more.
The festival is a flagship public program of Sundance Institute and throughout the whole year, Institute’s resources support independent artists around the world.
More info: https://fpg.festival.sundance.org/film/films/catalog
