Rise and shine—it’s Day Two. Start things off with The Sundance Dailies, presented by Acura, where you can share a virtual coffee with Festival director Tabitha Jackson and special guests every morning at 9:00 a.m. MT. If you slept in and missed today’s show featuring writer-director Rebecca Hall (Passing) and actor Eugenio Derbez (CODA), not to worry—you can catch up whenever you’d like here, no pass or ticket required.
The first full day of the Festival’s world premieres include Alexis Gambis’s Son of Monarchs, a transformative drama starring Tenoch Huerta; Mariem Pérez Riera’s Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, a loving cinematic portrait of a living legend; and Christopher Makoto Yogi’s I Was a Simple Man, an achingly intimate family drama that was incubated in our summer labs.
At Cinema Café, presented by Audible, tune in for a thought-provoking conversation between directors Shaka King (Judas and the Black Messiah) and Questlove (Summer of Soul …Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised). And you’re also invited to this year’s Native Forum Celebration, where we’ll be honoring the Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program fellows, grantees, and alumni. During the event, we’ll announce the latest recipient of our Merata Mita Fellowship, named in honor of the late Māori filmmaker.
All of our Talks & Events are free and open to attendees all over the world, so make sure to pop these into your schedule.
Since its launch, the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier has served as a showcase for dynamic, innovative work at the crossroads of film, art, and technology—but this year, as with the rest of the Fest, we’re doing things a bit differently.
We’ve reimagined New Frontier to not only bring the visionary, ground-breaking projects online, but to also create an interactive, immersive space where passholders can gather and celebrate the class of 2021. Teleport over and join us—in avatar form!—after every world premiere for an out-of-this-world Film Party, where you can chat with fellow Festivalgoers and the artists themselves about the projects you just watched.
This year’s New Frontier program was made possible by the generous support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Unity Technologies, Adobe, Dell Technologies, The Walt Disney Studios StudioLAB, and Oculus from Facebook.
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30.01.2021 | Sundance's blog
