Just two months after Sundance founder Robert Redford’s death at the age of 89, the festival has revealed more details of its plans to honor the Oscar winner during its final year in Park City, Utah. The festival’s traditional opening weekend soiree has been repurposed as Celebrating Sundance…

The Sundance Film Festival’s swan song in its longtime home of Park City, Utah is lining up to be a true banger, past and present. “Make your plans now, because I’ll say the number of folks, filmmakers, artists, industry, folks who want to be part of this year’s festival is amazing,” Sundance Fe…

EXCLUSIVE: By the end of April, the new home of the Sundance Film Festival should be public knowledge with the Salt Lake City/Park City combo, Boulder, Colorado or Cincinnati bid picked as the host for the next decade. However, a bill heading toward Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s desk that would ban the…

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks after the indie film crowd left Park City, the box score on the Sundance Film Festival marketplace looks like this: a splashy auction and $15M WW deal by Neon on Together to start, followed by a handful of deals that moved sluggishly, with numbers that got smaller as leverage shifted…

The Sundance Film Festival's next edition will run from Jan. 23 to Feb. 2 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today. "While the next Sundance Film Festival is still 10 months away, we're already laying the foundation for the 2025 edition, looking…

The Sundance Film Festival wrapped Sunday with some big sales in a challenging indie film landscape with distributors in need of content. New at the 40th edition, the second post-Covid and led for the first time by director Eugene Hernandez: a kickoff event with Jason Blum, 19 films on opening day, a…

In the wake of the dual Hollywood strikes, the 2024 theatrical release schedule is in a bind, even streamers are desperate for product. Sundance, save us. Eighty percent of this year’s film lineup is for sale, some even made on SAG-AFTRA interim agreements during the actors strike. That means…

In his first communiqué as Sundance’s Festival Director, Eugene Hernandez has doled out new information as far as the slate and venues for 2024’s hybrid edition, also addressing the timing of programming and a “challenging moment” for artists, as the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes continue. The…

Dennis Lim, the artistic director of the New York Film Festival, has a confession. “I hate 'back to normal' as a phrase and as a concept,” he said with a chuckle. For the festival, however, the 60th edition kicking off tonight with White Noise “does feel kind of close to the experience we know. We’re at…

Eugene Hernandez has been set as the next Director of the Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Sundance Institute’s Head of Public Programming. The film and media industry veteran joins the Institute as its fourth official Festival Director after spending 12 years at Film at Lincoln Center, most recently as…

Film at Lincoln Center has promoted two key members of its leadership team and also confirmed September 30 to October 16 as the dates for the New York Film Festival. Dennis Lim has been elevated to artistic director of the festival, becoming the first person to hold that title since the first edition in 1963…

The New York Film Festival exudes tradition. Since 1963, its Lincoln Center commingling of culturati, Oscar hopefuls and cinephiliacs has been a mainstay of the city’s fall calendar and the global festival circuit. This year, though, COVID-19 has thrown tradition to the wind and New York movie theaters and arts…