(Director and Screenwriter: Cooper Raiff, Producers: Dakota Johnson, Ro Donnelly, Erik Feig, Jessica Switch, Cooper Raiff) - A directionless college graduate embarks on a relationship with a young mom and her teenage daughter while learning the boundaries of his new bar mitzvah party-starting gig. World Premiere.Ĭha Cha Real Smooth / U.S.A. Cast: Carla Juri, Takashi Ueno, Gustaf Skarsgård, Futaba Okazaki, Issey Ogata. But when comforting turns to affection, she realizes she must give herself permission before she can fall in love again. (Director and Screenwriter: Bradley Rust Gray, Producers: David Urrutia, Bradley Rust Gray, So Yong Kim, Elika Portnoy, Alex Orlovsky, Jonathon Komack Martin) - After the death of her husband, a young woman travels to Japan where she finds solace in an old friend. Cast: Keke Palmer, Common, Jonny Lee Miller, Gaius Charles. (Director and Screenwriter: Krystin Ver Linden, Producer: Peter Lawson) - When a woman in servitude in 1800s Georgia escapes the 55-acre confines of her captor, she discovers the shocking reality that exists beyond the treeline…it’s 1973. No other options, he walks into a Wells Fargo Bank and says “I’ve got a bomb.“ Cast: John Boyega, Michael Kenneth Williams, Nicole Beharie, Connie Britton, Olivia Washington, Selenis Leyva. (Director and Screenwriter: Abi Damaris Corbin, Screenwriter: Kwame Kwei-Armah, Producers: Ashley Levinson, Salman Al-Rashid, Sam Frohman, Kevin Turen, Mackenzie Fargo) - When Brian Brown-Easley’s disability check fails to materialize from Veterans Affairs, he finds himself on the brink of homelessness and breaking his daughter’s heart. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include CODA, Passing, Minari, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, The Farewell, Clemency, Eighth Grade and Sorry to Bother You.Ĩ92 / U.S.A.
Presenting the world premieres of fiction feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film. ‘Titane’ Director Julia Ducournau Shares Nightmares That Inspired Film: ‘I Was Giving Birth to Engine Pieces’ “After Yang,” Kogonada’s sophomore feature that premiered at Cannes, will also screen at Sundance in the Spotlight section and has been named the winner of the Alfred P. And among some of the Day One features include “Emergency,” “Fire of Love,” “Fresh,” “La Guerra Civil,” “A Love Song,” “Marte Um (Mars One),” “The Princess, “Tantura,” “When You Finish Saving the World” and a special screening of “The Worst Person in the World.” Poehler’s “Lucy and Desi” will be the opening night gala film in Salt Lake City. The Festival will open on January 20 with an experiment in biodigital convergence as audiences gather online and in person for a special New Frontier presentation of Sam Green’s “32 Sounds,” taking place simultaneously in Park City’s Egyptian Theatre and in The Spaceship’s Cinema House. This year’s Sundance will return to Park City, Utah, for an in-person festival that will require people to be vaccinated and masked to attend, but it will also return online in a hybrid format after seeing enormous success from its streaming crowd in 2021. Next Gen Hollywood Actresses on The Importance of Maintaining a ‘Healthy Balance’ Brown called “Honk For Jesus, Save My Soul.” Dramatic Competition, which last year awarded Sian Heder’s “CODA” the top prize, Sundance will premiere “892” starring John Boyega and the late Michael Kenneth Williams, “Alice” with Keke Palmer and Common, “Cha Cha Real Smooth” starring and produced by Dakota Johnson, “Dual” with Karen Gillan and Aaron Paul and “Master” starring Regina Hall, who is also appearing in another film in the Premieres section with Sterling K. Documentary Competition are women with 30% being people of color.
Dramatic Competition are women and half are people of color, and 10 of the 13 directors in the U.S. And this year six of the 10 directors in the U.S. This comes from a submission class of 3,762 films, in which only 28% were directed by women. Those numbers are on-par with last year’s diversity breakdown when there was a smaller lineup of films, though 51% of 2021’s slate were directed by people of color. Just over half of this year’s 82 films (52%) were also directed by women, 35% were directed by one or more directors who identify as people of color, and 10% (8 films) were directed by people who identify as LGBTQ+. Fifteen of the films were also supported by the Sundance Institute in development through direct granting or residency labs. Seventy-five of the 82 features will be making their world premiere at Sundance, and the films represent 28 different countries and 42% first-time film directors. Why Sundance Film Festival Director Won’t ‘Go Back’ on Progress Made With Virtual Event
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