Sundance Film Festival

What: The largest inde­pen­dent film fes­ti­val in the Unit­ed States, the Sun­dance film fes­ti­val cel­e­brates the best of inde­pen­dent film as hun­dreds of thou­sands of cin­e­ma buffs , film mak­ers, crit­ics and bud­ding direc­tors head to three small towns in Utah for a 10 day marathon of film pre­mieres, pan­els, con­ver­sa­tions, par­ties and the chance to dis­cov­er the lat­est cin­e­mat­ic mas­ter­piece.

With a strict cri­te­ri­on that any film pre­miered at the fes­ti­val is inde­pen­dent­ly pro­duced and direct­ed, the fes­ti­val is open to films of all gen­res, with doc­u­men­taries, biopics, short films, series, and New Fron­tier films all pre­miered and with no cri­te­ria on who can sub­mit a film for con­sid­er­a­tion for the fes­ti­val [see here] there’s no rea­son why, with the right sto­ry to tell, any­one can’t go on to gar­ner inter­na­tion­al and crit­i­cal acclaim for their film.  

When: The Sun­dance film fes­ti­val takes place over the course of 10 days begin­ning in late Jan­u­ary and end­ing in ear­ly Feb­ru­ary.

Where: The sun­dance film fes­ti­val takes place in the state of Utah – in the  towns of park city, salt lake city and at the sun­dance resort, with a series of select­ed small venues in each of the three towns show­ing the inde­pen­dent fils of the fes­ti­val. For a list of offi­cial venues in each town see [https://www.sundance.org/festivals/sundance-film-festival/how-to-fest].

Dura­tion:  The film fes­ti­val lasts 10 days, with film pre­mieres and screen­ings tak­ing place at var­i­ous times through­out the day with a full list of film pre­mieres at their var­i­ous the­atres avail­able at [https://www.sundance.org/2020-sundance-film-festival-schedule] – expect films to last any­where between 5 min­utes to a few hours.

Tick­ets: Tick­ets for the film fes­ti­val are avail­able at [https://www.sundance.org/festivals/sundance-film-festival/get-tickets] with tick­et prices cost­ing $20 per film and includ­ing access to an after-pre­miere film pan­el. There are also a range of pass­es for mul­ti­ple day screen­ings, with these pass­es start­ing at $1000 and rais­ing in price to $3000.

It’s high­ly advised to book in advance as only an esti­mat­ed 20% of tick­ets go to film fans and pro­duc­ers and demand for tick­ets avail­able to the pub­lic far out­strip­ping the avail­abil­i­ty of tick­ets.

Need to Know:  The fes­ti­val is spread across three sep­a­rate sites, which are approx­i­mate­ly half an hour apart from each oth­er so plan your screen­ings well in advance – for those with­out cars a free shut­tle is on hand to fer­ry peo­ple to the three dif­fer­ent sites.

It’s also advised to reg­is­ter and book tick­ets well in advance, and if lucky enough to attend bring a good sup­ply of win­ter clothes for the Utah win­ters.

More Infor­ma­tion: For infor­ma­tion on the sched­ule, venues, films being shown and to pur­chase tick­ets vis­it the offi­cial web­site of the Sun­dance film fes­ti­val: [https://www.sundance.org/festivals/sundance-film-festival]