FOR FREEDOMS AT SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Sundance Institute was thrilled to partner with For Freedoms at the 2019 Festival through their series of activations: a town hall, an interactive mural (below), and the creation of a digital quilt (above). 

For the digital quilt and interactive mural, artists and attendees were asked to choose “Freedom to _____,” “Freedom from_____,” “Freedom of _____,” or “Freedom for” and fill in the blank. 

Photo by Dan Campbell

The January 26 Town Hall—“Can Art Save Democracy?”—featured filmmaker Ava DuVernay, performer and choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili, Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas, artist/co-founder of Black Lives Matter Patrisse Cullors, and playwright and performer Lisa Kron (Fun Home) to explore how culture is vital to an active, participatory, inclusive, and free democracy.

Ava DuVernay - Photo by Stephen Speckman

Patrisse Cullors - Photo by Stephen Speckman

Lisa Kron - Photo by Stephen Speckman

Okwui Okpokwasili - Photo by Stephen Speckman

About For Freedoms: 

Founded in 2016 by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman, For Freedoms is a platform for creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action. Inspired by American artist Norman Rockwell’s paintings of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms (1941)—freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear—For Freedoms’ exhibitions, installations, and public programs use art to deepen public discussions on civic issues and core values, and to advocate for equality, dialogue, and civic participation. As a nexus between art, politics, commerce, and education, For Freedoms aims to inject anti-partisan, critical thinking that fine art can encourage into the political and cultural landscape. 

50 State Initiative: 

The 50 State Initiative was the largest creative collaboration in United States history. For Freedoms launched the non-partisan, nationwide campaign in June 2018, and invited artists, cultural and academic institutions, and social justice organizations to experiment with new forms of creative civic engagement in the months leading up to the midterm elections. Together, we examined our collective freedoms and mapped out the artistic infrastructure of our country through hundreds of concurrent programs, including town halls, exhibitions, lawn signs, and billboards. The 50 State Initiative resulted in 744 activations as well as a network of 715 artists, 266 arts institutions, and civic leaders in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C.

The 2019 Sundance Film Festival has revealed the New Frontier slate which focuses on the intersection of art, film, and technology. Check out what the press has to say about this year’s lineup.

“While it’s usually the films in competition and the premieres that attract a lot of the spotlight leading up to the Sundance Film Festival, but year after year it is the more experimental New Frontier offerings that often point most clearly towards the future.” -Deadline

“New Frontier consistently hosts the festival’s most dynamic and innovative work, spanning a wide range of interactive, emerging technology and installation-based projects that encompass VR, AR, mixed reality (MR) and AI.”- Variety 

“This year’s New Frontier is an explosion of experimentation, bearing a motherload of innovative custom tech that take us higher.” - Shari Frilot, Chief Curator of New Frontier, as reported by IndieWire

 “…New Frontier’s footprint at the Festival has evolved, responsive to increased demand and the needs of showcased artists.”- Broadway World

We are pleased to announce the 73 short films and 12 Indie Episodic works that will join the 2019 Sundance Film Festival slate.

Check the press round up below, and tune in Wednesday for the New Frontier announcement:

“…The Park City, Utah cinematic confab remains one of the most vital bullhorns.”  - Deadline

“With the further inclusion of TV titles within the fabric of its annual event, Sundance continues to respond to where storytelling is happening and the spaces creators are finding to do their work.” - LA Times

“Given the impressive list of names in the episodic lineup, it is clear that Sundance has become a destination for small-screen fare that screens against the festival’s bread-and-butter indie films.” - The Hollywood Reporter

“Almost 10,000 shorts — 9,443, to be exact, broken down into 4,720 from the U.S. and 4,723 from the rest of the world — were submitted to the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, yielding today’s announced program of 73 works from 33 countries.” - Filmmaker Magazine

“In only its second year of bringing independent television to Park City as part of its Indie Episodics section, Sundance has picked a dozen series that could include the next big TV hit.” -Indie Wire

We are thrilled to have announced the 112 feature films for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival!

Check out this press roundup and stay tuned for more announcements next week.

“The 35th Sundance’s mantra is more. Today’s unveiling of the U.S. Competition and World Cinema Competition Dramatic and Documentary categories plus the Midnight, Kids and NEXT slates for the 2019 SFF reveals, it is more representation, more equality and more outward looking.” - Deadline

“The numbers on this year’s slate demonstrate the Institute’s commitment to fostering diversity in filmmaking.” - Entertainment Weekly

“With an unusual air of freshness and consolidation feeling like a newfound strength, the Sundance Film Festival unveiled its 2019 program Wednesday.” -Los Angeles Times

“Sundance once again puts…male-dominated showcases to shame, unveiling a [U.S.] competition slate that is 53% female.”- Variety

“The Robert Redford-founded festival never shies away from headline-grabbing fare, and the upcoming edition will be no exception.” - The Hollywood Reporter

MICHIGAN, THE SUNDANCE INSTITUTE NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS PROGRAM IS COMING FOR YOU!

• Saturday, July 29 - Tuesday, August 1: Sundance Institute at Ziibiwing. Check the flier above for details. No RSVP necessary.  

Click HERE for more info on the Native American and Indigenous Film Program.

ANNOUNCING THE SUNDANCE INSTITUTE 2017 SCREENWRITERS INTENSIVE FELLOWS, PROJECTS, AND ADVISORS

Launched in 2013 as part of the Institute’s Diversity Initiative, the Screenwriters Intensive offers an intimate group of emerging screenwriters the opportunity to hone their craft in a two-day concentrated workshop. The program focuses deeply on the creative process of developing a narrative feature screenplay and fosters community amongst the participants. The Intensive includes a hands-on writing workshop, individual feedback sessions with creative advisors, and engagement with the Sundance community through screenings, moderated conversations, and social gatherings. Past projects supported at the Screenwriters Intensive include Spa Night, written and directed by Andrew Ahn, and Deidra and Laney Rob a Train, written by Shelby Farrell and directed by Sydney Freeland. The Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive is made possible with leadership support from the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation.

FELLOWS:

Donari Braxton | Above

Donari Braxton is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. He’s received support and awards from Sundance, IFP, Film Independent and Berlinale Talents, amongst other institutions. Last year, the narrative feature he wrote and produced, Out of My Hand, premiered at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival and was theatrically released by Ava Duvernay’s ARRAY pictures. He was later nominated for the John Cassavetes Film Independent Spirit Award for his work on this project. Most recently, Braxton was awarded San Francisco Film Society’s 2016 KRF Screenwriting Grant and Fellowship for Above, which will be his narrative feature directorial debut.

Beth de Araújo | Josephine

Beth de Araújo is a staff writer and associate producer on the comedy anthology series My Crazy Sex for Lifetime Movie Network, and made her television directorial debut on the series. She was selected for AFI’s 2017 Directing Workshop for Women. Her screenplay, I Want to Marry a Creative Jewish Girl, based on her essay for Gawker Magazine, won Best Screenplay Runner-up at the HollyShorts 2016 Screenplay Competition. Her short film, Initiation, premiered at the 2016 Los Angeles Shorts Film Festival. De Araújo is Chinese and Brazilian with a BA in Sociology from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Screenwriting from AFI.

Christopher Kahunahana | Waikiki

Christopher Kahunahana is a Hawaiian filmmaker and Sundance Institute Native Lab fellow. As founder of 4th World Film, he wrote Karaoke Kings, a feature film in development, and directed Lahaina Noon, an experimental narrative short. In 2014, he wrote and directed a pseudo-documentary for the Smithsonian Institute’s Asian Pacific American “A Day in the Life” project. In 2015, his Hawaii International Film Festival trailer Moments won 4 awards including best cinematography from the American Advertising Awards. He is currently in preproduction for his debut feature film Waikiki.

Vuk Lungulov-Klotz | Quiltro

Vuk Lungulov-Klotz is a young filmmaker born in New York City who was raised in multiple cultures, growing up in New York, Chile, and Serbia. He recently graduated from the SUNY Purchase Film Conservatory and currently lives in Brooklyn. His upbringing and transgender identity have greatly influenced his filmmaking and drives him to make slice-of-life queer films.

Sarah Mintz | Junk Food Diary

Sarah Mintz is a filmmaker working between Los Angeles and New York. She received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where her thesis film Transit, starring Dakota Johnson, was a finalist for Best Short at the 2014 Fusion Film Festival and screened in competition at the 2014 HollyShorts Film Festival. Sarah has been mentored by filmmakers Cary Fukunaga, Joachim Trier, Yann Demange, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Her screenplay Junk Food Diary was a finalist for the NYU Production Lab, a top ten finalist for Nantucket Screenwriters Colony, and a second round finalist for AFF Screenwriting Competition.

Oualid Mouaness | 1982: A Day in Wissam’s Life

Oualid Mouaness is a Lebanese-American writer/director/producer. He studied in Lebanon and received an MFA in film from Florida State University. He co-produced and edited Mari Kornhauser’s Kitchen Privileges (2000 SXSW). In 2004, he served as a producer on the documentary Rize (2005 Sundance Film Festival,) followed by Paris Not France (2008 Toronto International Film Festival). Mouaness’ diverse producing work includes Michael Jackson’s Slave to the Rhythm, Annie Lennox’s Emmy-nominated Nostalgia: Live in Concert, and the Audience Award-winning documentary I Am Thalente (2015 Los Angeles Film Festival.) Mouaness also produced seminal music videos for Annie Lennox, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Lana Del Rey, and David Bowie, among others. This year, his short film The Rifle, the Jackal, the Wolf and the Boy was shortlisted for the Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short, and he is among Cinephilia’s 2016 Directors to Watch. Mouaness is a RAWI/Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow and a recipient of grants from the Doha Film Institute and Fond Images Francophonie in France. 1982: A Day in Wissam’s Life will mark his feature directorial debut.

Naima Ramos-Chapman | Yeve, or Sad Songs in Lanugages I Don’t Understand

Naima Ramos-Chapman is an artist who makes movement, word, image, silence, sound, and technology that tell stories of transformation and understated bravery. Her stories stem from true events, incorporate magical realism, and seek to render psycho-spiritual realities we can not see alongside the mundanities and banal brutality of everyday life. Her first short, And Nothing Happened, explores the psychological aftermath of sexualized violence and premiered at the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival. Naima trained at The Alvin Ailey School for Dance, The Barrow Group for Acting, Howard University and Brooklyn College (CUNY). She holds a B.A. in Journalism.

Elizabeth Richardson | A Forest Without Hours

Elizabeth Richardson is a screenwriter and a medical speech-language pathologist. She holds a degree in Dramatic Art from UCSB, where she was the recipient of the Sherrill C. Corwin – Metropolitan Theatre Writing Award. After seven years in the arts nonprofit world, an interest in neuroscience and neurolinguistics led Richardson to graduate work in Communication Disorders and Sciences at CSUN. She now works in acute care and private practice treating individuals challenged with speech and language deficits following left-hemisphere stroke. She is currently working on a short documentary called Birth Stories and developing her feature script A Forest Without Hours.

Hannah Sanghee Park | The Beauty

Hannah Sanghee Park was born and raised in Washington. She’s the author of the book The Same-Different (LSU Press), the 2014 winner of The Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award. She has received fellowships from The U.S. Fulbright Program, The Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The CBS Writers Mentoring Program, The MacDowell Colony, The Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. Park holds an MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she was included in Variety’s “110 Students to Watch.”

Bassam Tariq | Mecca, Texas

Bassam Tariq is a TED Fellow and the co-director of the 2013 feature documentary These Birds Walk. The film was recently named one of the best films of the 21st century by the New Yorker. In 2012, he was named one of 25 Filmmakers to Watch by Filmmaker Magazine. He resides in New York City where he runs a butchery in the East Village.

ADVISORS:

• Deena Goldstone
  
• Dante Harper
  
• So Yong Kim
  
• Sarah Koskoff
  
• Jennifer Salt
  
• Dana Stevens
  
• Robin Swicord
  
• Joan Tewkesbury
  
• Ligiah Villalobos
  
• Tyger Williams
  
• Andy Wolk
  
• Shelby Farrell
  
• Sydney Freeland

For more information on the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program, click HERE. 

ANNOUNCING 2017 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE FILMTWO INITIATIVE FELLOWS AND ADVISORS

Now in its second year, FilmTwo is a specialized artist development program of the Feature Film Program (FFP) dedicated to supporting filmmakers that are working to get their second narrative features made. The FilmTwo Initiative includes participation in the FilmTwo Intensive, building a support community of second time filmmakers. Additionally, filmmakers will receive strategic advice in navigating the industry and have access to customized year-long creative and tactical support from Sundance Staff, including feedback on screenplay drafts and rough cuts, assistance in securing resources, advice on festival and release strategies, and introductions to potential funders and collaborators. In addition, filmmakers will be considered for FFP granting and participation in various Labs and activities on an individualized basis and be eligible for the Sundance Institute | NBCUniversal Fellowship. The Sundance Institute FilmTwo Initiative is sponsored by Founding Supporter, Universal Pictures. 

FELLOWS:

Amman Abbasi

Amman Abbasi is a Pakistani American writer-director, editor and composer from Little Rock, Arkansas, whose debut feature film, Dayveon premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. In 2011, working for the Renaud Brothers, Abbasi traveled to Haiti to cover the aftermath of the earthquake for a The New York Times short form documentary, which subsequently won the prestigious duPont Award. His music compositions have appeared in many commercials, films and documentaries. In 2008, with his brother, their debut album Something Like Nostalgia topped the charts in Japan.

Sheldon Candis

Baltimore native Sheldon Candis made his feature directorial debut in 2012 with LUV, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He recently wrote and directed the docu-narrative series I Will What I Want, a cinematic portrait of ballet phenom Misty Copeland and the forthcoming ESPN 30 for 30 feature documentary Here Come the Show, the inspiring true story of the greatest high school basketball team ever; the 1981-83 Dunbar Poets, which produced four NBA players in David Wingate, Reggie Williams, Boston Celtic great Reggie Lewis, and a 5'3" tiny dynamo named Tyrone ‘Muggsy’ Bogues. Candis is a graduate of the University of Southern California - School of Cinematic Arts.

Andrew Cividino

Andrew Cividino is an award-winning director hailing from the 6ix, where he attended Ryerson University’s film studies program. After graduating, Andrew continued to hone his craft directing short films and commercials, garnering acclaim for his films We Ate the Children Last (2011), Yellow Fish (2010), and Sleeping Giant (2013), which won the jury prize at Locarno and served as a proof of concept for his debut feature. The feature length adaptation of Sleeping Giant premiered to critical acclaim at the 2015 edition of Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, and went on to play at more than sixty festivals worldwide.

Clea DuVall

Clea DuVall is recognized by many as a gifted actor, and has recently garnered recognition for her inspired work as a storyteller in her writing/directing debut, The Intervention. The film was enthusiastically received by both audiences and buyers and sold to Paramount Studios. Duvall’s resume is as extensive as it is versatile. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Clea first became interested in acting while attending the Los Angeles High School of the Arts. During her time there, she performed in the theater and also took acting classes outside of school. Upon graduation, she quickly landed an agent and manager and has been working nonstop ever since. Select acting credits include: Veep (HBO), The Newsroom (HBO), American Horror Story (FX), Heroes (NBC), Carnivale (HBO) and Argo.

Sally El Hosaini

Sally El Hosaini is a feature film writer-director. An alum of the Sundance Institute Rawi, Screenwriters and Directors Labs, El Hosaini’s acclaimed debut feature My Brother The Devil won major prizes at Sundance, Berlin and London Film Festivals, winning 12 awards, 17 nominations and was released theatrically in the US, Canada and Europe. She recently directed Danny Boyle’s TV series Babylon for Channel 4 Sundance TV.

Cory Finley

Cory Finley is a St. Louis-born, New York-based director and playwright. His debut feature, Thoroughbred, based on his play of the same name, premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and will be released by Focus Features. He is a member of the Obie-winning Youngblood playwrights group at Ensemble Studio Theater, has received a commission from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation for playwriting, and was the inaugural recipient of the Gurney Playwrights Fund for his play The Feast at The Flea Theater. He has developed work at New York theaters including Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb and Ensemble Studio Theater, as well as around the country.

Tanya Hamilton

Tanya Hamilton is the writer and director of Night Catches Us, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival,  won the Fipresci Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival for Best American Film and was named Best Screenplay by the African-American Film Critics Association. It was nominated for numerous awards including an Independent Spirit Award in the Best First Feature category; multiple NAACP Image Awards; and Breakthrough Director at the 2010 Gotham Awards. A Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Directors Lab alum, Hamilton is also a recipient of the coveted Pew Fellowship in the Arts. She directs for television and is working on her next feature.

Ingrid Jungermann

Ingrid Jungermann was nominated for the Independent Spirit Someone to Watch Award for her debut feature, Women Who Kill, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the Jury Prize for Best Screenplay. She created the web series The Slope and the WGA-nominated F To 7th, and earned her MFA at NYU Graduate Film School. She was one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 Faces of Independent Film.

Derek Kimball

Derek Kimball is a Portland, Maine-based filmmaker. After nearly a decade teaching directing and cinematography for New York Film Academy, Boston College, and Emerson College, he returned home to direct his feature debut, Neptune which premiered at the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival to rave reviews.

Rebecca Thomas

Director Rebecca Thomas’ first short film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. She went on to debut her first feature, Electrick Children, at SXSW and earned a spot on Variety’s “Top Ten New Directors to Watch in Hollywood” as well as an Independent Spirit Award nomination. A graduate of Columbia University’s renowned School of the Arts Film Masters Program, Thomas is now attached to direct Looking for Alaska and the live action adaptation of The Little Mermaid. She is a native of Las Vegas, Nevada and the youngest of 5 children. Her Mormon heritage led her to spend a year and a half as a volunteer missionary in Japan. She speaks fluent Japanese, plays the piano, and more than anything, loves making movies.

Lulu Wang

Lulu Wang is a classical pianist turned filmmaker. Her first feature film Posthumous, starring Jack Huston and Brit Marling, was released by The Orchard. Lulu’s short film Touch, premiered at the Palm Springs International ShortFest. She is a recipient of the Chaz and Roger Ebert Directing Fellowship, which was awarded at the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards and she is also a Film Independent Project Involve Directing Fellow. Lulu is currently developing her second feature with Chris Weitz/Depth of Field and Big Beach, based on the story she wrote and narrated for “This American Life.”

ADVISORS

• Joan Tewkesbury (Screenwriter, Nashville)
• Stephanie Allain (Producer, Hustle & Flow)
• Andrea Berloff (Screenwriter, Straight Outta Compton)
• Melissa Breaux (Manager, Washington Square Films)
• Ian Bricke (Director, Content Acquisition, Netflix)
• Rick Famuyiwa (Writer/Director, Dope)
• Gyula Gazdag (Filmmaker, Artistic Director, Sundance Directors Lab)
• Alan Khamoui (Film Executive, Amazon Studios)
• Karyn Kusama (Writer/Director, Girlfight)
• Laura Lewis (Film Finance Agent, CAA)
• David Lonner (Principal, Oasis Media Group)
• Alix Madigan-Yorkin (Producer, Mad Dog Films)
• DanTram Nguyen (SVP, Production, Fox Searchlight)
• Kim Roth (President of Production, Macro Ventures)
• Sara Scott (VP, Production and Development, Universal Pictures)
• Peter Sollett (Director, Freeheld)
• Priya Swaminathan (Head of Development, Annapurna)

NBCUNIVERSAL GLOBAL TALENT DEVELOPMENT & INCLUSION

• Emerlynn Lampitoc (Director, Global Talent Development & Inclusion, Universal Filmed Entertainment, Universal Pictures)
  
• Janine Jones-Clark (Senior Vice President, Global Talent Development & Inclusion, Universal Filmed Entertainment, Universal Pictures)
  

For more info, click HERE.

More awards congrats go out to these Sundance Film Festival alum and Sundance Institute Fellows, who were winners at the Film Independent Spirit Awards:

• Kiehl’s Someone To Watch Award – Anna Rose Holmer, THE FITS (2016 Sundance Film Festival)
  
• Truer Than Fiction Award – Nanfu Wang, HOOLIGAN SPARROW (2016 Sundance Film Festival)
• Best First Screenplay & Best First Feature – Robert Eggers, THE WITCH (2016 Sundance Film Festival - Winner, Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic)
• John Cassavetes Award - SPA NIGHT (2016 Sundance Film Festival - Winner, U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance - Joe Seo)
• Best Supporting Female – Molly Shannon, OTHER PEOPLE (2016 Sundance Film Festival)
• Best Male Lead – Casey Affleck, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (2016 Sundance Film Festival)
• Best Documentary Feature – O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA (2016 Sundance Film Festival)

Additionally, Barry Jenkins, co-writer and director of MOONLIGHT (which won six Spirit Awards, including Best Feature, Best Director, and Best Screenplay), was a 2014 Sundance Institute Episodic Story Lab Fellow with his project, RADICAL.

Congrats to Sundance Film Festival alum films that took home Oscars last night (MANCHESTER BY THE SEA, O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA). These films join a diverse group that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to win an Oscar. Check out the articles below:

• The Sundance Film Festival’s 20 Biggest Oscar Success Stories: http://bit.ly/2l97S0S via The Playlist
  
• 30 Years Of Oscar Winners Who Went Through The Sundance Film Festival: http://huff.to/2mudnZ2 via The Huffington Post
  
• 13 Sundance Films that Got Academy Award Buzz (and a Few Wins!): http://bit.ly/2kVaQdQ via Parade
  

Additional congrats go out to Barry Jenkins, a Sundance Institute Episodic Story Lab Fellow, and Sundance Theatre alum Tarell Alvin McCraney (Best Adapted Screenplay & Best Picture, MOONLIGHT), Viola Davis - also a Sundance Theatre alum (Best Supporting Actress, FENCES), and Damien Chazelle (Best Director, LA LA LAND), whose film WHIPLASH was the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Dramatic winner. 

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we are sharing some of our favorite romantic films that’ve premiered at the Sundance Film Festival over the years. From Love & Basketball to Like Crazy, there have been a number of romantic films that have made their world premiere at Sundance. Which one is your favorite? See below for some of our picks:

• Love & Basketball
  
• Like Crazy
  
• The Big Sick
  
• Dina
  
• 500 Days of Summer
  
• Love Jones
  
• Me and You and Everyone We Know
  
• Maggie’s Plan
  
• Enough Said
  
• Obvious Child
  

Or, if masochism is more your flavor, give Blue Valentine (a great film!) a spin tonight. 

We’re on Day 9 of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and most of the 2017 slate of films have already screened at Sundance. See what critics are selecting as their favorite films of the Festival:

• Sundance 2017: The Best Films of This Year’s Festival - http://bit.ly/2k0v4iY via Entertainment Weekly
  
• The Standout Films At Sundance - http://n.pr/2k0KNyp via NPR
  
• Highlights From The 2017 Sundance Film Festival - http://bit.ly/2kasetG via New Yorker
  
• The Best of Sundance: 9 Films You’ll Be Talking About Very Soon - http://bit.ly/2ktZ862 via Esquire
  
• Woody Harrelson, Daniel Clowes, and Our Favorite Films of Sundance 2017 - http://bit.ly/2kavJAq via A.V. Club
  

You don’t want to miss one minute of the films, parties, or panels due to illness or injury. Unfortunately, if you aren’t used to the conditions in Utah, there are some risks of which you may not be aware. Use these tips from Sustaining Sponsor U of U Healthcare to stay healthy, and prevent some of the common ailments that could keep you out of the festivities.

The 2017 Sundance Film Festival is officially underway and we’re excited to share some of the highlights from the first few days. Explore the articles below and check out the best photos from our photographers and Festival goers!

• Why Sundance, America’s Largest Independent Film Festival, Matters to Movie Lovers: http://bit.ly/2jBQyCg via VOX
  
• The Sundance Film Festival Brings the World — Through Cinema’s Diverse Lens — to Park City: http://lat.ms/2jjxBn0 via LA Times
  
• There’s No Such Thing as “Indie TV,” but Sundance Wants to Help Change That: http://slate.me/2jKYkfv via Slate
  
• Day 2: It’s Love Vs. Afterlife For Jason Segel and Rooney Mara in The Discovery: http://bit.ly/2j8M2g5 via Sundance Institute
  
• Sundance Day One Highlight Photos: http://bit.ly/2jBUkf2
  
• Sundance Day Two Highlight Photos: http://bit.ly/2kcYA3R