Sundance Film Festival

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
 
 
The Sundance Film Festival,  a program of the Sundance Institute, is an American film festival that takes place annually in Park City, Utah.  With 46,660 attendees in 2016, it is the largest independent film festival in the United States.  Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

A film featuring Nick Cave recently premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.  Called 20,000 Days on Earth, it portrays a 24-hour period in Cave’s life (fictionalized).  The film won two awards at the Festival and was praised by the Jury as “being arguably the most exciting film in competition. . . .  This is documentary storytelling at its most visionary and mind-blowing”.  

 

(November 2014)

 

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