Sundance Film Festival U.S. ## Watch on Deadline

We gather in Utah and online during the Festival to watch stories unfold.

The Beyond Film offerings encourage community.

For details on all programming announced on Friday, read on.

Barry Jenkins Dakota Johnson Jonathan Majors Randall Park Marlee Matlin

(L-R) Barry Jenkins, Dakota Johnson, Jonathan Majors, Randall Park and Marlee MatlinGetty Images

The doors are open again at Cinema Cafe, where the culture of conversation is reinvigorated.

Our series of informal chats brings together special guests for thoughtprovoking encounters and fascinating dialogue.

Increased visibility for historically underrepresented people is empowering but also can bring new, complex questions and challenges.

Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Winner Gallery

ON BURNOUT & ATTENTION CRISISSaturday, January 21, 23:30 p.m.

Among many issues that the global pandemic exposed and challenged was our ability to stay focused and inspired.

So what happens now?

Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Theres no shortage of dystopian futures and calamity science in popular media.

What happened to better living through science and technology?

Wheres our science optimism?

What if near-future fiction gave us inspiration instead of nightmares, and solutions to daunting problems?

What if bioengineering produced bacteria that eat plastic instead of people?

We provide resources to inspire and empower artists to bring untold stories to life.

Panels are hosted and produced by members of our official partner community.

just check the Partner Events section of the Festival Program Guide for panel topics and times.

Partner organizations help make the Festival and our year-round artists programs possible.

The talk will be livestreamed and will be posted for on demand viewing.

As our thirst for real-life stories grows, the way were producing them is also changing.

How is the creative process changing?

What technology is accelerating production?

And how do you keep truth at the center of the story amid all the noise?

Its all courtesy of ASCAP, home to more than 900,000 of the greatest music creators in the world.

We will reflect on the stories behind the buzzed-about films and their paths to the Sundance Film Festival.

Everyone believes Jews are vastly overrepresented in Hollywood is that true?

Why is their representation so often inauthentic, relying on caricatures at best and evil depictions at worst?

How did Hollywoods founders, escaping antisemitism, bake their complicated feelings of Judaism into so many storylines?

The film won the 2023 Dolby Institute Fellowship award.

Tune in to this in-depth discussion around the vital role sound design and score play in storytelling.

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