PARK CITY, UTAH - Sundance Institute shared details of their live, free summer events slate today, with screenings and collaborative engagements across a wide range of events in Park City and Salt Lake County, an invigoration of the organization's deep local roots. For the Locals events will include a weekend-long film program and a series of partnerships across organizations such as Arts Council Park City + Summit County, Ballet West, Christian Center of Park City, Craft Lake City, Dragonfli Media, Park City Film, Salt Lake City Arts Council, THE BLOCKS and Utah Film Center. The focal point of the Institute's summer For the Locals program will be the weekend of July 14-17. They will showcase a diverse set of award-winning films from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival at Salt Lake City's Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre, Redwood Drive-In Theatre, Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, and Utah Olympic Park. Other events announced today include a curated selection of shorts, VR projects, and feature films that will be featured at Park City's Latino Arts Festival and Salt Lake City's Living Traditions Festival, Open Streets, Damn These Heels Queer Film Festival, and the Craft Lake City DIY Festival.
These community events and collaborations are led by Sundance Institute's Utah Community Program team, Eva Rinaldi (Director) and Mate B. Ochoa (Senior Manager). Through in-person and online experiences, locals can participate in year-round public programs and artist opportunities that open the exchange of ideas while amplifying the work of regional art organizations.
We're eager to gather in-person again, in creative yet safe arrangements that allow us to collectively celebrate independent stories, said Rinaldi. Working alongside film teams, our programming team, and our many on-the-ground partners and advocates, it's been a pleasure to assemble this lineup and devise innovative ways to get these artists' projects in front of audiences.
Sundance Institute's Utah Community Programs are supported by Principal Sponsor Zions Bank; Major Supporters State of Utah, Utah Division of Arts & Museums, and University of Utah Health; and Community Supporters Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts and Parks (ZAP) Program; Peggy Bergmann; Summit County Recreation, Arts, and Parks (RAP) Tax; George S. and Dolores Dor Eccles Foundation; Salt Lake County Community Services; and Salt Lake City Arts Council.
Check sundance.org/sundancelocals for the latest. This season's full slate of events and collaborations include:
June 21-26, 2021: Sundance Institute presents Nuestras Vidas: Latinx Shorts @ the Latino Arts Festival, in collaboration with the Christian Center of Park City and Arts Council Park City + Summit County
At Christian Center of Park City, Park City
10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Nuestras Vidas: Latinx Shorts
Nuestras Vidas: Latinx Shorts is a curated selection of short films centering Latinx stories and filmmakers. Confirmed films, with more to be added, include:
Victor & Isolina / U.S.A. (Director: William Caballero) - Victor and Isolina is an animated short film, featuring 3D printed miniatures of director William D. Caballlero's bickering and boisterous, Puerto Rican grandparents. It's a humorous he said, she said' account of how the elderly couple separated after years of a shaky relationship and cohabitation.
Dulce / U.S.A., Colombia (Directors: Angello Faccini and Guille Isa) - In coastal Colombia, facing rising tides made worse by climate change, a mother teaches her daughter how to swim so that she may go to the mangroves and harvest piangua shellfish with the other women in the village.
Yoruga / U.S.A., Colombia (Director: Federico Torrado Tob n) - A lonely old man pays a visit to Yoruga, one of the last animals on Earth.
GOOD CRAZY / U.S.A. (Director: Rosa Salazar) - A complex chick deals with a vanilla beau, a shitty brunch, and a dead coyote all in a Los Angeles day. Theres batshit crazy and then theres good crazy-she fits somewhere in between.
Cuco - Hydrocodone, Directors Cut / U.S.A. (Director: Jazmin Garcia) - Hydrocodone is a music video for the Mexican American artist Cuco. Its an abstract journey through a young man's memories before and after a traumatic accident.
Pablo / Belgium, Colombia (Director: Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento) - Months after a violent separation, Anouk and Pablo have to meet two members of the Ministry of State at Anouks place to have the legal authenticity of their cohabitation validated.
June 24, 2021: Sundance Institute presents For the Locals Screening @ the Latino Arts Festival in collaboration with Park City Film
At the Twilight Drive-In, Utah Olympic Park, Park City
9:30 p.m. | Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It / U.S.A. (Director: Mariem P rez Riera, Producers: Brent Miller, Mariem P rez Riera, Ilia J. V lez-D vila) - Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become one of a select group who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. Over a seventy year career, she has paved the way for Hispanic-American performers by refusing to be pigeonholed into one-dimensional stereotypes. World Premiered in the 2021 Sundance Film Festival's U.S. Documentary section. Stills available.
June 26, 2021: Sundance Institute presents Nuestras Vidas: Latinx Shorts and New Frontier Projects @ the Living Traditions Festival, in collaboration with Salt Lake City Arts Council
At Washington Square Park, Salt Lake City
Noon-9 p.m. | Nuestras Vidas: Latinx Shorts and New Frontier Projects
Nuestras Vidas: Latinx Shorts will be available to watch throughout the day as well as Sundance Institute-supported VR projects that have been a part of our New Frontier lineup.
July 9-10, 2021: Downtown Salt Lake City Open Streets
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