First stop on the itinerary: Sundance.
“Voices from many places and perspectives, often shut out of the mainstream, offer us new insights.
It’s immensely heartening to see these bold visions and their tellers thriving.”
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The numbers on this year’s slate demonstrate the Institute’s commitment to fostering diversity in filmmaking.
“Society relies on storytellers.
“This year’s Festival is full of storytellers who offer challenges, questions and entertainment.
The 2019 Sundance Film Festival will take place Jan. 24 to Feb. 3, 2019.
Read on for the feature films that will hit Park City in the new year.
Fifty-three percent of the directors in this year’s U.S.
Dramatic Competition are women; forty-one percent are people of color; eighteen percent identify as LGBTQIA+.
World Premiere
Brittany Runs A Marathon/U.S.A.
World Premiere
U.S.
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Sixteen world-premiere American documentaries that illuminate the ideas, people and events that shape the present day.
Forty-four percent of the directors in this year’s U.S.
Documentary Competition are women; twenty-two percent are people of color; five percent identify as LGBTQIA+.
Eaton, Producers: Cameron Crowe, Michele Farinola, Greg Mariotti) You thought you knew him.
Meet David Crosby now in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind.
The Temple is calling for a Satanic revolution to save the nation’s soul.
While her face has been reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars.
They should be sad, but they can’t cry.
So they form a kick-ass band.
Documenting the Cosa Nostra’s barbaric rule, she bore unflinching witness to their crimes.
Films that have premiered in this category in recent years includeSearching,Skate Kitchen,A Ghost StoryandTangerine.
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At the head of the most powerful faction The Spades sits Selah Summers.
And she’s looking for a way out.
Based on true events.
Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use.
She took no prisoners, leaving both sides of the aisle laughing and craving more of her razor-sharp wit.
Then, overnight, her $10-billion-dollar company dissolved.
Films that have premiered in this category in recent years includeHereditary,Assassination Nation,The Little HoursandThe Babadook.
When he returns, he looks the same, but his behavior grows increasingly disturbing.
Since his mother’s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father.
North American Premiere
KIDS
This section of the Festival is especially for our youngest independent film fans.
The Palestinian-Muslim side Ibrahim.
His first-generation American agnostic lawyer parents call him Abraham.
But the 12-year-old kid from Brooklyn who loves food and cooking, prefers, well, Abe.
