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You Can Stream Sundance Films This Year

Various films are available to watch at home this weekend, but it costs $35 per film

(Newser) - Don't worry if you didn't make it to the last Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Many of the films will be available to stream online starting Thursday through the weekend, including the buzzy Channing Tatum drama Josephine, per the AP . What started as a COVID-era necessity...

Amber Heard: 'I Have Lost My Ability to Speak'

Actor reflects on defamation fight with Johnny Depp in new documentary

(Newser) - Amber Heard is speaking publicly about the fallout from her legal battles with ex-husband Johnny Depp, but says she no longer wants to tell her own story, People reports. In a new documentary titled Silenced, which premiered Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, the 39-year-old actor reflects on the aftermath...

Man Sneaks Into Sundance Party, Punches Lawmaker: Cops

Suspect allegedly shouted racist remarks, threatened deportation during attack

(Newser) - A late-night party on the sidelines of the Sundance Film Festival turned violent for Rep. Maxwell Frost on Friday, ending with a 28-year-old man in jail and facing multiple charges. The Florida Democrat said on X that a man told him President Trump was going to deport him, then punched...

Sundance Bids Farewell to Park City, Preps for Boulder
In Utah, a Bittersweet
'Culmination' for Sundance
THE RUNDOWN
Jan 22, 2026 11:48 AM CST

In Utah, a Bittersweet 'Culmination' for Sundance

Robert Redford's famous film fest celebrates its last year in Park City, before moving to Boulder

(Newser) - Sundance is getting ready for one last curtain call in the Utah ski town it outgrew years ago. The independent film festival that Robert Redford launched in the 1980s opens Thursday in Park City for the final time before moving to Boulder, Colorado, next year, reports NBC News . The shift...

What Meryl Streep, Others Are Saying About Redford

Hollywood honors the cinematic giant: 'One of the lions has passed'

(Newser) - Robert Redford died Tuesday at the age of 89, with an indomitable, varied, and decades-long legacy in Hollywood already sealed. A look at the tributes being paid to the actor, director, founder of the Sundance Film Festival, and activist:
  • Sundance: Per the Guardian , the Utah-based film festival Redford founded in
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Iconic Film Fest Ditches Utah After Nearly 5 Decades

Sundance will make the move from Park City to Boulder, Colorado, starting in 2027

(Newser) - For nearly a half-century, Utah has hosted the Sundance Film Festival, which kicked off in the resort town of Park City. Now, the Beehive State is bidding adieu to the iconic event, as it was announced Thursday that, after "countless meetings" and multiple presentations, Boulder, Colorado, has been chosen...

Sundance Film Fest Goes Online
Sundance Film Fest
Goes Online
Jan 29, 2025 9:35 AM CST

Sundance Film Fest Goes Online

Here's how to stream the films

(Newser) - Access to the Sundance Film Festival doesn't require a trip to Park City, Utah, anymore—just an internet connection. Over half the films that premiered this past week will be available to stream on the festival's online platform starting Thursday, reports the AP . What started as a COVID-era...

Director Malia Obama Debuts at Sundance
Malia Obama Makes
Her Sundance Debut
Jan 19, 2024 11:35 AM CST

Malia Obama Makes Her Sundance Debut

'The Heart' previously won best live action short at the Chicago International Film Festival

(Newser) - Malia Obama has come a long way from her time protesting on the sidelines of the Sundance Film Festival. This year, she's screening a film there. The eldest daughter of former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama was on the red carpet Wednesday for the screening of...

Sundance Jury Walks Out of Screening Over Captioning

Marlee Matlin joins request for open caption prints at Sundance

(Newser) - When the closed captioning device provided to actress Marlee Matlin for a screening Friday night didn't work, she and two other Sundance Film Festival jurors walked out. The device was fixed hours later, Variety reports, but that still could have left the showing without adequate captioning for other deaf...

Brooke Shields Details Struggle After Rape

In documentary, actress says she hopes her account helps others

(Newser) - In a new documentary, Brooke Shields says that when she was raped in a hotel room in her 20s, she called on her experience as a sexualized child star. "God knows I knew how to be disassociated from my body," she says. "I'd practiced that."...

Sundance Might Have Been Perfect for Spreading the Virus

People who fell ill at film festival suspect they had early cases of COVID-19

(Newser) - People are used to coming down with the "Sundance flu" after partying late into the night and shaking many hands at the Utah film festival. About 120,000 people from all over the world attend, packing restaurants and theaters at a peak time for colds and the flu. But...

Taylor Swift Makes Big Reveal in New Documentary

In 'Miss Americana,' star says she had an eating disorder

(Newser) - One of the most highly anticipated films debuting at the Sundance Film Festival was Miss Americana, a Netflix documentary about Taylor Swift. The film premiered Thursday night, and one big headline emerged from it: Swift's revelation that she struggled with an eating disorder, triggered by comments about her appearance,...

Here's What to Be Excited About as Sundance Begins

Big names including Taylor Swift, Hillary Clinton, Lin-Manuel Miranda featured

(Newser) - Plenty of change is in the air at the Sundance Film Festival, where some 118 feature films are set to premiere over the next 10 days beginning Thursday, the AP reports. Streaming companies are now among the most likely companies to scoop up buzzed-about breakthroughs. The marquee event of opening...

Sundance Co-Founder Hears His Fate for Child Sex Abuse

Sterling Van Wagenen, 72, pleaded guilty to touching girl twice, gets at least 6 years in prison

(Newser) - A filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced a movie whose lead actress won an Oscar in the mid-1980s was sentenced Tuesday to at least six years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual abuse of a child. The judge who delivered the sentence of six years to...

AOC May Get 2nd Documentary
AOC May Get
2nd Documentary
May 7, 2019 10:45 AM CDT

AOC May Get 2nd Documentary

Report says it would be on her Green New Deal; another is currently on Netflix

(Newser) - A sign that the buzz around Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn't dying down: She's prominently featured in one documentary currently on Netflix, and Axios reports that she might get more of a solo treatment in a second film. AOC is one of four women in the 2018 elections featured in...

Sundance Co-Founder Accused of Touching Girl

Sterling Van Wagenen, 71, faces count of felony sexual abuse of a child

(Newser) - A Utah filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival with Robert Redford and produced an Oscar-winning movie in the mid-1980s has been charged with sexual abuse of a young girl. Sterling Van Wagenen, 71, is accused of inappropriately touching a girl on two occasions between 2013 and 2015, according to...

Tensions High as New Michael Jackson Film Debuts at Sundance

Leaving Neverland explores abuse allegations

(Newser) - Michael Jackson has been dead for almost a decade, but he apparently still has fans fanatical enough to worry police. Authorities in Park City, Utah, say they have increased staffing levels because they are worried about protests at the Sundance Film Festival premiere of Leaving Neverland, NBC reports. The controversial...

Malia Obama Joins Pipeline Protest
Malia Obama Joins
Pipeline Protest
Jan 28, 2017 8:42 AM CST

Malia Obama Joins Pipeline Protest

She was seen at Sundance Film Festival event

(Newser) - The first Obama to publicly take a political stance during the Trump administration wasn't Barack or Michelle but Malia, who joined a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline during the Sundance Festival in Utah this week. Actress Shailene Woodley, a fellow protester, tells Democracy Now that is was "...

Tim Daly Breaks Both Legs at Sundance
Tim Daly Breaks
Both Legs at Sundance
Jan 25, 2017 10:41 AM CST

Tim Daly Breaks Both Legs at Sundance

Injury not expected to impact 'Madam Secretary'

(Newser) - Tim Daly broke both of his legs skiing while he was attending the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, Variety reports. He's scheduled to have surgery Wednesday. There was some concern that the injury might affect filming of Madam Secretary, Daly's current show, but Deadline reports that only the...

A 'New Take' on JonBenet Case Coming to Netflix

'Casting JonBenet' will premiere at Sundance, then head to theaters, Netflix

(Newser) - Interest in the JonBenet Ramsey case was resurrected with the 20th anniversary of the 6-year-old's December 1996 death, and now Netflix is joining the revival. Per Variety , the company has acquired the rights to Casting JonBenet, a documentary by Kitty Green set to debut at the Sundance Film Festival...

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