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Sundance 21 Goes Beyond Film

15/01/2021

PARK CITY, UTAH -- The lineup for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, taking place on a Sundance-built and feature-rich online platform, goes well beyond feature and short films, episodic work and the VR/XR of New Frontier -- it also encompasses a curated program of free special events, conversations and activations available to the global public. These Talks and Events, presented on the Sundance platform, include our new Opening Ceremony, Sundance Dailies, and The Big Conversation series, trademark gatherings at Cinema Caf and the Power of Story, Awards Night and the concluding It's A Wrap session. Additional partner programming will take place in a bustling digital Festival Village, which includes Main Street, Satellite Screens and the Artist Lounge.

SCHEDULED TALKS & EVENTS

All talks and events are free to view globally. Sign up for an account at Festival.Sundance.org to access. All times are U.S. Mountain time.

2021 Sundance Film Festival Opening Night Welcome

Thursday, January 28, 5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Audiences all over the world are invited to join us as we kick off the reimagined 2021 Sundance Film Festival and connect with the Sundance community in advance of experiencing the Festival program. During the Opening Ceremony, you can expect to hear from Festival Director Tabitha Jackson, celebrate Utah - our spiritual home - and see plenty of familiar faces from our Festival family.

The Sundance Dailies

#SundanceDailies

Friday, January 29-Tuesday, February 2, 9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.

Your guided tour through the festival's myriad happenings, The Sundance Dailies will roll out each morning with host Tabitha Jackson, Utah correspondent John Cooper, and an assortment of special guests. The Sundance Dailies is a fun and informal download of the day ahead and what you missed the day before. Guests include: Eugenio Derbez (CODA), Rebecca Hall (Passing), Ed Helms (Together Together), Zoe Lister-Jones and Daryl Wein (How It Ends), and more.

Presented by Acura

Cinema Caf

#CinemaCafe

Friday, January 29-Monday, February 1, 10:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

The doors are open again at Cinema Caf . Here, the culture of conversation is reinvigorated. Our series of informal chats brings together special guests for thought-provoking encounters. Sometimes, the most fascinating conversations are the ones you didn't expect. Presented by Audible

2021 Cinema Caf guests will include:

Shaka King & Ahmir Questlove Thompson

Friday, January 29, 10:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

Sonia Manzano & Rita Moreno

Saturday, January 30, 10:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

Rebecca Hall & Robin Wright

Sunday, January 31, 10:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

Tyson Brown, Patti Harrison & Emilia Jones

Monday, February 1, 10:30 a.m.-11:15am

The Big Conversation

#SundanceBigConversation

Friday, January 29-Monday, February 1, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m., individual slots TBA

The Big Conversation tackles science, art, culture, and the movements that are fueling the imaginations of today's independent artists. A compelling selection of speakers discuss topics centered on the themes of this year's program and explore broader trends in art and culture around the world. In considering how artists-through their practice and their work-make meaning of the world, we're reminded that it's the big conversation that connects us to the big ideas.

Barbed Wire Kisses Redux

The year 1992 was a watershed one for LGBTQ+ film, giving birth to the term New Queer Cinema and introducing a revolutionary generation of films and filmmakers with energetic irreverence and disruptive aesthetics. At the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, B. Ruby Rich convened and moderated a panel of preeminent artists (including the late Derek Jarman) to discuss their work and the historic moment of its emergence. This year, Rich and other LGBTQ+ titans gather 30 years later to look back and imagine forward in this contemporary edition of Barbed Wire Kisses.

Moderator B. Ruby Rich (Editor, Film Quarterly; Author, New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut); guests Andrew Ahn (Spa Night), Gregg Araki (The Living End), Lisa Cholodenko (High Art), Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman), Silas Howard (By Hook or By Crook), Isaac Julien (Young Soul Rebels) and Rose Troche (Go Fish).

Come Together

That the first image of a black hole was achieved through a global network of synchronized radio observatories shows what humans can accomplish when we come together. Beyond astronomy and across a myriad of fields-from space exploration and climatology to bioscience and virology (as the pandemic plainly illustrates)-science and technology are propelled by collaboration, cooperation, and the breaking of barriers. We explore, through the lens of film and television, what that cooperation means for human knowledge and our mutual survival.

Moderator Janna Levin (Tow Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Barnard College); guests Scott Z. Burns (writer, Contagion; writer & director, The Report), Leland Melvin (engineer and retired NASA astronaut), and more TBA. Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The Past In the Present: A Personal Journey through Race, History, and Filmmaking

History is not the past, it's the present. James Baldwin's words reverberate throughout Raoul Peck's work, his activism, and his remarkable filmmaking career. Peck joins Festival director Tabitha Jackson in a conversation about white supremacy, history, creative expression, and his personal journey from the Academy Award-nominated I Am Not Your Negro to his upcoming work Exterminate All the Brutes, which interrogates over 600 years of history, from the Native American genocide, to the systemized enslavement of Africans, to Hitler's extermination of the European Jews-a history to which our present is inextricably bound.

Power of Story

#PowerOfStory

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