Sundance Fest Going Nationwide with Sundance Film Festival USA
Sundance here we come! or rather Ann Arbor, MI (Michigan Theater), Brookline, MA (Coolidge Corner Theatre), Brooklyn, NY (BAM), Chicago, IL (Music Box Theatre), Los Angeles, CA (Downtown Independent), Madison, WI (Sundance Cinemas Madison), Nashville, TN (The Belcourt Theatre) or San Francisco, CA (Sundance Kabuki Cinemas).
For one night during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, the event will expand beyond Park City, UT to theaters in eight American cities. On January 28, 2010, eight Sundance 2010 filmmakers will take their films across the country. Being Dubbed Sundance Film Festival U.S.A, the new initiative is being pitched by the festival as “a night of ideas across the country.”
Selections for films and filmmakers traveling to the eight cities will take place shortly after the programming announcement in December. All films will be selected from the official Sundance Film Festival program.
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival will run from January 21 – 31, 2010 in Utah at its traditional Parks City location featuring hundreds of films.
The concept behind this Sundance Film Festival U.S.A. is to ignite dialogue as people across the country engage in a collective film experience,” said Sundance Institute president and founder Robert Redford, in a statement. “We hope by speaking with artists about their work and experiencing the Festival as it is happening, audiences will be inspired to share opinions, discuss the key issues of our day and reflect on the role art plays in social change.”
I think this is all great and wonderful but at the same time nothing compares to actually going to the festival itself, though we have never been, the coverage some of our friend sites give is uncanny and that stems from actually being at the festival location itself. That being said there is a lot of great premieres at the festival every year and maybe folks will get a chance to see them instead of waiting for distributors to pick them or the buzz to get big enough on the internet.
