2024 Sundance Film Festival to Continue Hybrid Screenings for 40th Edition
New Sundance Film Festival Director Eugene Hernandez revealed in a letter today that the 40th edition of the festival, which will take place January 18–28, 2024, will continue its highly successful hybrid presentation online screenings while still prioritizing a festive and formative in-person experience.
“This is also a challenging moment as artists fight for a more equitable entertainment industry. We’re more passionate than ever about the importance of celebrating and protecting fiercely independent voices; finding, nurturing and supporting a diverse roster of art and artists; as well as spotlighting work that can entertain us while it challenges and moves us, said Hernandez. “As we plan for next year, it has been invigorating and inspiring to reflect on the history of this great Festival and dig in with colleagues to shape a sustainable vision for the future that builds and embraces audiences from all walks of life.”
Taking a moment to acknowledge the ongoing union strikes with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA, Hernandez said, “So much has changed in our field since then. In the midst of yet another moment of evolution, we believe deeply in the vital impact of independent filmmaking, discovery, and the enduring power of festivals as a bridge between audiences and artists.”
The 2024 Sundance Film Festival, which is currently being curated, will include 90+ feature films and 60+ shorts and kick off with premiere screenings of each film through Tuesday the 23rd, with multiple screenings of each film in Park City and Salt Lake City. Beginning on Thursday, January 25, the festival will launch at-home screenings of the films in our five Competition sections (including NEXT). Films invited to our other sections can also opt-in to screen online during this limited sneak preview window. Press and industry will have online access to these competition films and others that opt-in for the professional community beginning one day earlier on January 24.
This year’s venues for in-person premieres will take place in Park City at the Eccles Theater, Egyptian Theatre, Holiday Village Cinemas, Library Center Theatre, The Ray Theatre, Redstone Cinemas, and Prospector Square Theatre, with private events at The Park. We’ll also be back in our Filmmaker Lodge on Main Street for conversations and gatherings through the final Friday. In Salt Lake City, films will screen downtown at the Megaplex Theatres at The Gateway, at the Salt Lake Film Society’s Broadway Centre Cinemas, and at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center.
The Festival Awards will be presented during the day on Friday, January 26 at The Ray Theatre. Tickets and pass information will be shared in September.
He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
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