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AMERICAN ANIMALS BURDEN The unbelievable—but mostly true—story of four After opening a KKK shop, Klansman Michael FILMS young men who mistake their lives for a movie and Burden falls in love with a single mom who forces attempt one of the most audacious art heists in him to confront his senseless hatred. With nowhere Many of these films have not yet been rated by U.S. history. to turn after leaving the Klan, Burden is taken in by an African American reverend and learns tolerance the Motion Picture Association of America. Read Fri. 1/19, 3:30 p.m., Eccles, PC through their combined love and faith. the full descriptions and choose responsibly. Sat. 1/20, noon, The Grand, SLC Sat. 1/20, 10:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Sun. 1/21, 6:15 p.m., PC Library, PC Films are generally followed by a Q&A with Sun. 1/21, 9:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Tue. 1/23, noon, Eccles, PC Wed. 1/24, 3:00 p.m., PC Library, PC the director and selected members of the cast Thu. 1/25, 9:15 p.m., The MARC, PC Fri. 1/26, 9:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Fri. 1/26, 9:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC and crew. Sat. 1/27, 11:30 a.m., The MARC, PC Sat. 1/27, 8:30 a.m., Egyptian, PC All films are shown in 35mm and DCP. BLAZE EIGHTH GRADE Special thanks to Dolby Laboratories, Inc., for A reimagining of the life and times of Blaze Foley, Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave its support of our digital cinema projection. the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw of contemporary suburban adolescence as she music movement. He gave up paradise for the sake makes her way through the last week of middle of a song. school—the end of her thus-far-disastrous eighth Sun. 1/21, 3:00 p.m., PC Library, PC grade year—before she begins high school. Tue. 1/23, 8:30 a.m., Egyptian, PC Fri. 1/19, 6:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Thu. 1/25, 6:15 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Sat. 1/20, 8:30 a.m., Egyptian, PC Fri. 1/26, 12:15 p.m., Eccles, PC Sun. 1/21, 9:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Sat. 1/27, 3:00 p.m., Redstone 7, PC Wed. 1/24, 5:30 p.m., The MARC, PC Thu. 1/25, 6:00 p.m., Sundance Resort BLINDSPOTTING Fri. 1/26, 3:30 p.m., Eccles, PC A buddy comedy in a world that won’t let it be one. I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW

DAY ONE The apocalypse proves a blessing in disguise for one lucky recluse—until a second survivor arrives Thu. 1/18, 5:30 p.m., Eccles, PC with the threat of companionship. Fri. 1/19, 9:30 a.m., The Ray, PC Sat. 1/20, 9:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC Sun. 1/21, 12:15 p.m., Eccles, PC Wed. 1/24, 6:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Mon. 1/22, 9:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC Thu. 1/25, 11:45 p.m., Egyptian, PC Tue. 1/23, 9:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Wed. 1/24, 9:30 a.m., The Ray, PC Fri. 1/26, 11:45 a.m., The MARC, PC

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THE KINDERGARTEN THE MISEDUCATION NANCY TYREL TEACHER OF CAMERON POST Blurring lines between fact and fiction, Tyler spirals out of control when he realizes When a Staten Island kindergarten teacher 1993: After being caught having sex with the prom Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she he’s the only black person attending a birthday discovers what may be a gifted five-year-old queen, a girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy was kidnapped as a child. When she meets weekend party in a secluded cabin. student in her class, she becomes fascinated center. Based on Emily Danforth’s acclaimed and a couple whose daughter went missing 30 years Sat. 1/20, 9:00 p.m., PC Library, PC and obsessed with the child—spiraling downward controversial coming-of-age novel. ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief— Sun. 1/21, 9:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC and the power of emotion threatens to overcome on a dangerous and desperate path in order to Preceded by I LIKE GIRLS Tue. 1/23, 9:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC nurture his talent. all rationality. Wed. 1/24, 3:30 p.m., Eccles, PC Mon. 1/22, 12:15 p.m., Eccles, PC Sat. 1/20, 3:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Sat. 1/27, 3:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Fri. 1/19, 3:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Tue. 1/23, 6:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC Sat. 1/20, 6:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC Mon. 1/22, 10:00 p.m., The Ray, PC Thu. 1/25, 2:30 p.m., The MARC, PC Tue. 1/23, 9:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC Sun. 1/21, 8:30 a.m., Egyptian, PC Fri. 1/26, 3:00 p.m., PC Library, PC WILDLIFE Thu. 1/25, 3:30 p.m., Eccles, PC Thu. 1/25, 12:15 p.m., Eccles, PC Sat. 1/27, 3:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC Montana, 1960: A portrait of a family in crisis. Sat. 1/27, 4:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Fri. 1/26, 9:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Based on the novel by Richard Ford. MONSTER SORRY TO BOTHER YOU Sat. 1/20, 3:30 p.m., Eccles, PC LIZZIE Sun. 1/21, 6:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC “Monster” is what a prosecutor calls 17-year-old In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, Based on the 1892 murder of Lizzie Borden’s honors student and aspiring filmmaker Steve Mon. 1/22, 9:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers Fri. 1/26, 5:30 p.m., Prospector, PC family in Fall River, Massachusetts, this tense Harmon. Charged with felony murder for a crime psychological thriller lays bare the legend of a magical key to professional success—which Sat. 1/27, 8:30 a.m., Prospector, PC he says he did not commit, Steve begins a dramatic propels him into a macabre universe. Lizzie Borden to reveal the much more complex, journey and complex legal battle that could leave poignant, and truly terrifying woman within—and him spending the rest of his life in prison. Sat. 1/20, 6:00 p.m., PC Library, PC her intimate bond with the family’s young Irish Sun. 1/21, 9:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC housemaid, Bridget Sullivan. Mon. 1/22, 3:30 p.m., Eccles, PC Mon. 1/22, 8:30 a.m., Prospector, PC Tue. 1/23, 9:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC Wed. 1/24, 12:15 p.m., Eccles, PC Fri. 1/19, 9:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Thu. 1/25, 11:30 a.m., Prospector, PC Fri. 1/26, 5:30 p.m., The MARC, PC Sat. 1/20, 8:30 a.m., Prospector, PC Fri. 1/26, 9:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Sat. 1/27, 3:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Sun. 1/21, 12:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC Sat. 1/27, 9:00 a.m., Park Ave., PC Thu. 1/25, 9:30 p.m., Eccles, PC Fri. 1/26, noon, Temple, PC THE TALE MONSTERS AND MEN An investigation into one woman’s memory as she’s This interwoven narrative explores the aftermath forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship of a police killing of a black man. The film is told and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the Based on the filmmaker’s own story. act, an African American police officer, and a high school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand. Sat. 1/20, 12:15 p.m., Eccles, PC Sun. 1/21, 9:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC Fri. 1/19, 12:15 p.m., Eccles, PC Thu. 1/25, 6:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC Sat. 1/20, 4:00 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Fri. 1/26, 8:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Sun. 1/21, 10:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Sat. 1/27, 9:00 a.m., PC Library, PC Tue. 1/23, 9:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Wed. 1/24, noon, PC Library, PC Fri. 1/26, 8:30 a.m., Egyptian, PC

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BISBEE ’17 THE DEVIL WE KNOW HALE COUNTY THIS KAILASH An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border Unraveling one of the biggest environmental MORNING, THIS EVENING English and Hindi with English subtitles finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation scandals of our time, a group of citizens in West Composed of intimate and unencumbered As a young man, Kailash Satyarthi promised of 1,200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Virginia take on a powerful corporation after they moments of people in a community, this himself that he would end child slavery in his Locals collaborate to stage re-creations of their discover it has knowingly been dumping a toxic film is constructed in a form that allows the lifetime. In the decades since, he has rescued controversial past. chemical—now found in the blood of 99.7 percent viewer an emotive impression of the historic more than eighty thousand children and built a Sat. 1/20, 8:15 p.m., Prospector, PC of Americans—into the local drinking water supply. South—trumpeting the beauty of life and the global movement. This intimate and suspenseful Sun. 1/21, 5:45 p.m., Tower, SLC Sun. 1/21, 12:30 p.m., The Ray, PC consequences of the social construction of film follows one man’s journey to do what many Mon. 1/22, 2:45 p.m., Redstone 7, PC Mon. 1/22, 6:00 p.m., Temple, PC race, while simultaneously being a testament believed was impossible. Thu. 1/25, 5:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Thu. 1/25, noon, Temple, PC to dreaming. Fri. 1/26, 8:30 a.m., The MARC, PC Fri. 1/26, 9:00 p.m., Redstone 7, PC DAY ONE Fri. 1/19, 11:30 a.m., Prospector, PC Sat. 1/27, 12:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Sat. 1/20, 11:30 a.m., Egyptian, PC Thu. 1/18, 5:30 p.m., The MARC, PC Sat. 1/20, 9:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC CRIME + PUNISHMENT Fri. 1/19, 9:00 a.m., PC Library, PC Tue. 1/23, noon, Sundance Resort Over four years of unprecedented access, the story HAL Fri. 1/19, 9:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Wed. 1/24, 6:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC Sat. 1/20, 12:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC of a brave group of black and Latino whistleblower Hal Ashby’s obsessive genius led to an Fri. 1/26, noon, Park Ave., PC cops and one unrelenting private investigator unprecedented string of Oscar-winning classics, Wed. 1/24, noon, Temple, PC who, amidst a landmark lawsuit, risk everything to including Harold and Maude, Shampoo, and Being Thu. 1/25, 9:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC expose illegal quota practices and their impact on There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese, INVENTING TOMORROW young minorities. and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the English and Spanish/Indonesian KUSAMA - INFINITY 1980s, Ashby’s uncompromising nature played out Fri. 1/19, 6:30 p.m., The Ray, PC with English subtitles English and Japanese with English subtitles Sat. 1/20, 2:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce. Take a journey with young minds from around the Now one of the world’s most celebrated artists, Sun. 1/21, noon, SLC Library, SLC Mon. 1/22, 11:30 a.m., The MARC, PC globe as they prepare their projects for the largest Yayoi Kusama broke free of the rigid society in Wed. 1/24, 2:30 p.m., The MARC, PC Tue. 1/23, 8:30 p.m., Prospector, PC convening of high school scientists in the world, which she was raised and overcame sexism, Fri. 1/26, noon, PC Library, PC Thu. 1/25, 11:30 a.m., The MARC, PC the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair racism, and mental illness to bring her artistic Sat. 1/27, noon, Sundance Resort Fri. 1/26, 9:15 a.m., Holiday 2, PC (ISEF). Watch these passionate innovators find the Sat. 1/27, 3:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC vision to the world stage. At 88 she lives in a courage to face the planet’s environmental threats mental hospital and continues to create art. while navigating adolescence. DARK MONEY Sun. 1/21, 3:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Dark money contributions, made possible by Sat. 1/20, 11:30 a.m., Prospector, PC Tue. 1/23, 9:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, Sun. 1/21, 3:00 p.m., Temple, PC Thu. 1/25, 7:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC flood modern American elections—but Montana Mon. 1/22, 9:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Fri. 1/26, 9:00 a.m., PC Library, PC is showing Washington, DC, how to solve the Tue. 1/23, 3:45 p.m., Broadway 3, SLC Sat. 1/27, 3:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC problem of unlimited anonymous money in politics. Wed. 1/24, 11:30 a.m., The MARC, PC Sat. 1/27, noon, Temple, PC Mon. 1/22, 3:15 p.m., The Ray, PC Tue. 1/23, 9:00 a.m., Temple, PC Wed. 1/24, 3:45 p.m., Broadway 3, SLC Thu. 1/25, 6:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Sat. 1/27, noon, Park Ave., PC

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THE LAST RACE ON HER SHOULDERS SEEING ALLRED THREE IDENTICAL A cinematic portrait of a small-town stock car track English and Kurdish/Arabic with English subtitles Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal STRANGERS and the drivers who call it home as they struggle Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived setbacks to become one of the nation’s most New York, 1980: Three complete strangers to hold on to an American racing tradition. The genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. famous women’s rights attorneys. Now the accidentally discover that they’re identical avant-garde narrative explores the community and Repeating her story to the world, this ordinary girl feminist firebrand takes on two of the biggest triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds’ its conflicts through an intimate story that reveals finds herself thrust onto the international stage as adversaries of her career, Bill Cosby and Donald joyous reunion catapults them to international the beauty of grassroots auto racing. the voice of her people. Away from the podium, Trump, as sexual violence allegations grip the fame, but it also unlocks an extraordinary and Preceded by MARFA she must navigate bureaucracy, fame, and people’s nation and keep her in the spotlight. disturbing secret that goes beyond their own good intentions. Sun. 1/21, 2:30 p.m., The MARC, PC lives—and could transform our understanding Mon. 1/22, 6:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Mon. 1/22, 6:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC Tue. 1/23, noon, Temple, PC Sat. 1/20, 12:30 p.m., The Ray, PC of human nature forever. Thu. 1/25, 9:00 p.m., Temple, PC Thu. 1/25, 9:00 p.m., Tower, SLC Sun. 1/21, 3:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC Fri. 1/19, 12:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Fri. 1/26, 9:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC Fri. 1/26, 4:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Mon. 1/22, 11:30 a.m., Redstone 7, PC Sat. 1/20, 9:00 a.m., Temple, PC Sat. 1/27, 3:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Sat. 1/27, noon, PC Library, PC Tue. 1/23, 6:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Sat. 1/20, 6:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC Thu. 1/25, 7:00 p.m., Holiday 4, PC Wed. 1/24, 3:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC Sat. 1/27, 12:30 p.m., The Ray, PC THE SENTENCE Thu. 1/25, 3:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Sat. 1/27, 2:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Three young men bond together to escape volatile Cindy Shank, mother of three, is serving a families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING 15-year sentence in federal prison for her adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations With unprecedented access to pivotal artists tangential involvement with a Michigan drug ring threaten their decade-long friendship. and the white-hot market surrounding them, this years earlier. This intimate portrait of mandatory film dives deep into the contemporary art world, minimum drug sentencing’s devastating Sun. 1/21, 5:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC holding a fun-house mirror up to our values and consequences, captured by Cindy’s brother, follows Tue. 1/23, 8:30 p.m., The MARC, PC her and her family over the course of 10 years. Wed. 1/24, 9:00 p.m., PC Library, PC our times—where everything can Thu. 1/25, 9:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC be bought and sold. Sat. 1/20, 3:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Fri. 1/26, 6:00 p.m., Redstone 7, PC Fri. 1/19, 11:30 a.m., The MARC, PC Sun. 1/21, 8:30 a.m., Prospector, PC Sun. 1/21, noon, Temple, PC Mon. 1/22, 9:45 p.m., Broadway 3, SLC Tue. 1/23, 6:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC Wed. 1/24, noon, Sundance Resort Thu. 1/25, 9:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Fri. 1/26, 5:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC Fri. 1/26, 8:30 p.m., The MARC, PC Sat. 1/27, 11:30 a.m., Prospector, PC

5 Check our website or mobile app for more information. • sundance.org/festival • #sundance WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION AND BREATHE NORMALLY DEAD PIGS HOLIDAY PITY English and Icelandic/Creole English and Mandarin/Shanghainese English and Danish with English subtitles Greek with English subtitles with English subtitles with English subtitles A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of The story of a man who feels happy only At the edge of Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, two women’s lives will intersect—for a brief a sensitive busboy, an expat architect, and a and violence in a dark modern gangster tale with such need for pity that he’s willing to do moment—while trapped in circumstances disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the everything to evoke it from others. This is the unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic thousands of dead pigs float down the river Turkish Riviera. life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him. mother and an asylum seeker from toward a rapidly modernizing Shanghai. Sun. 1/21, 8:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Fri. 1/19, 8:45 p.m., Prospector, PC Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as Based on true events. Tue. 1/23, 3:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC Sat. 1/20, 6:00 p.m., Tower, SLC both strategize to get their lives back on track. Fri. 1/19, 5:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Wed. 1/24, 5:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Mon. 1/22, 9:00 a.m., Temple, PC Mon. 1/22, 5:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Sat. 1/20, 3:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC Thu. 1/25, 9:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Thu. 1/25, 10:00 p.m., Holiday 4, PC Tue. 1/23, 9:00 p.m., Temple, PC Mon. 1/22, 9:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Sat. 1/27, 3:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC Fri. 1/26, 1:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Thu. 1/25, 8:45 p.m., Prospector, PC Thu. 1/25, 2:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Sat. 1/27, noon, Broadway 6, SLC Fri. 1/26, 9:15 p.m., Holiday 2, PC LOVELING THE QUEEN OF FEAR Portuguese with English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles THE GUILTY BUTTERFLIES On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only Only one month left until the premiere of Turkish with English subtitles Danish with English subtitles a few days to overcome her anxiety and regain her The Golden Time, the long-awaited solo show In the Turkish village of Hasanlar, three siblings Alarm dispatcher Asger Holm answers an inner confidence before sending her eldest son out by acclaimed actress Robertina. Far from being who neither know each other nor anything about emergency call from a kidnapped woman; after a into the world. focused on the preparations for this sudden disconnection, the search for the woman their late father, wait to bury his body. As they start new production, Robertina lives in a state of to find out more about their father and each other, and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his DAY ONE continuous anxiety that turns her privileged they also start to learn more about themselves. only tool, Asger enters a race against time to solve life into an absurd and tumultuous landscape. a crime that is far bigger than he first thought. Thu. 1/18, 9:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC Mon. 1/22, 2:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Fri. 1/19, 8:30 a.m., Prospector, PC Sun. 1/21, 5:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Wed. 1/24, 11:30 a.m., Prospector, PC Sun. 1/21, 2:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Fri. 1/19, 9:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC Mon. 1/22, 9:00 p.m., Tower, SLC Thu. 1/25, 6:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Mon. 1/22, noon, Temple, PC Sat. 1/20, 6:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Tue. 1/23, 4:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Fri. 1/26, 6:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC Tue. 1/23, 6:45 p.m., Broadway 3, SLC Wed. 1/24, 6:00 p.m., Temple, PC Fri. 1/26, 4:00 p.m., Holiday 4, PC Thu. 1/25, 10:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Thu. 1/25, 4:00 p.m., Holiday 4, PC Sat. 1/27, 10:00 a.m., Holiday 4, PC Fri. 1/26, noon, Sundance Resort Sat. 1/27, 9:00 a.m., Temple, PC

6 Check our website or mobile app for more information. • sundance.org/festival • #sundance WORLD CINEMA WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION COMPETITION RUST UN TRADUCTOR ANOTE’S ARK GENESIS 2.0 Portuguese with English subtitles Spanish/Russian with English subtitles English and Kiribati with English subtitles English and Russian/Yakut/Korean/Chinese Tati and Renet were already trading pics, A Russian Literature professor at the University of How does a nation survive being swallowed with English subtitles videos, and music with their cellphones, and Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child by the sea? Kiribati, on a low-lying Pacific atoll, On the remote New Siberian Islands in the on the last school trip they started making eye victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when will disappear within decades due to rising sea Arctic Ocean, hunters search for tusks of extinct contact. However, what could be the beginning they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment. Based levels, population growth, and climate change. mammoths. When they discover a surprisingly of a love story becomes an end. on a true story. This exploration of how to migrate an entire nation well-preserved mammoth carcass, its resurrection Sat. 1/20, 2:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Fri. 1/19, 2:30 p.m., Prospector, PC with dignity interweaves personal stories of will be the first manifestation of the next great Sun. 1/21, 1:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Sat. 1/20, 1:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC survival and resilience. technological revolution: genetics. It may well turn Mon. 1/22, 6:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Sat. 1/20, 11:59 p.m., Tower, SLC Fri. 1/19, 8:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC our world upside down. Thu. 1/25, 9:00 a.m., Temple, PC Mon. 1/22, 6:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Sat. 1/20, 6:45 p.m., Redstone 1, PC Sat. 1/20, 8:45 p.m., Park Ave., PC Fri. 1/26, 3:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC Thu. 1/25, 6:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Tue. 1/23, 6:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Sun. 1/21, 3:00 p.m., Redstone 7, PC Fri. 1/26, 10:00 a.m., Holiday 4, PC Wed. 1/24, 3:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Wed. 1/24, 3:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Thu. 1/25, 3:00 p.m., Temple, PC Thu. 1/25, 9:00 a.m., Park Ave., PC TIME SHARE Fri. 1/26, 9:00 a.m., Temple, PC Fri. 1/26, 12:15 p.m., Holiday 2, PC (TIEMPO COMPARTIDO) YARDIE Spanish with English subtitles Jamaica, 1973. When a young boy witnesses his brother’s assassination, a powerful don gives THE CLEANERS MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. Two haunted family men join forces in a him a home. Ten years later he is sent on a English and Tagalog with English subtitles English and Tamil with English subtitles destructive crusade to rescue their families mission to London. He reunites with his girlfriend When you post something on the web, can you be Drawn from a never-before-seen cache of from a tropical paradise, after becoming and their daughter, but then the past catches up convinced that an American time-share sure it stays there? Enter a hidden shadow industry personal footage spanning decades, this is an with them. Based on Victor Headley’s novel. conglomerate has a sinister plan to take of digital cleaning, where the internet rids itself of intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and their loved ones away. Sat. 1/20, 9:30 p.m., The Ray, PC what it doesn’t like: violence, pornography, political musician who continues to shatter conventions. Sun. 1/21, noon, PC Library, PC content. Who is controlling what we see ... and Sat. 1/20, 5:15 p.m., Prospector, PC Sun. 1/21, 9:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Mon. 1/22, 6:00 p.m., Tower, SLC what we think? Mon. 1/22, 8:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Sun. 1/21, 9:15 p.m., Tower, SLC Wed. 1/24, 1:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Fri. 1/19, 5:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC Tue. 1/23, 9:00 p.m., Tower, SLC Mon. 1/22, 3:00 p.m., Temple, PC Thu. 1/25, 9:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Sat. 1/20, 12:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC Thu. 1/25, 2:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC Fri. 1/26, 11:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Fri. 1/26, 11:45 p.m., Egyptian, PC Sat. 1/27, 3:00 p.m., Temple, PC Sat. 1/20, 9:00 p.m., Tower, SLC Fri. 1/26, 9:00 a.m., Park Ave., PC Wed. 1/24, 2:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Sat. 1/27, 1:00 p.m., Holiday 4, PC

7 Check our website or mobile app for more information. • sundance.org/festival • #sundance WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION OF FATHERS AND SONS OUR NEW PRESIDENT WESTWOOD: PUNK, Arabic with English subtitles English and Russian with English subtitles In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore’s first ICON, ACTIVIST Talal Derki returns to his homeland, where he The story of Donald Trump’s election told entirely indie road movie with her enigmatic American Dame Vivienne Westwood: punk, icon, gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing through Russian propaganda. By turns horrifying mentor Georges—who then vanished with all provocateur, and one of the most influential their daily life for over two years. His camera and hilarious, the film is a satirical portrait of the footage. Twenty years later, the 16mm film originators in recent history. This is the first film focuses on Osama and his younger brother Ayman, Russian media that reveals an empire of fake news is recovered, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los to encompass the remarkable story of one of the providing an extremely rare insight into what it and the tactics of modern-day information warfare. Angeles, on a personal odyssey in search of true icons of our time as she fights to maintain her Georges’s vanishing footprints. means to grow up in an Islamic caliphate. brand’s integrity, her principles—and her legacy. DAY ONE Fri. 1/19, 6:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Sun. 1/21, 11:30 a.m., Egyptian, PC Preceded by WILD WILD WEST: A BEAUTIFUL Sun. 1/21, noon, Sundance Resort Mon. 1/22, 10:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Thu. 1/18, 6:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC RANT BY MARK BRADFORD Mon. 1/22, 11:00 a.m., Egyptian, PC Tue. 1/23, 9:45 p.m., Broadway 3, SLC Fri. 1/19, 9:00 a.m., Temple, PC Sat. 1/20, 11:30 a.m., The MARC, PC Wed. 1/24, 8:30 a.m., Prospector, PC Thu. 1/25, 8:30 a.m., Egyptian, PC Fri. 1/19, 6:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Sun. 1/21, noon, Redstone 7, PC Fri. 1/26, 10:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Fri. 1/26, 3:15 p.m., Holiday 2, PC Sat. 1/20, 11:59 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Mon. 1/22, 3:45 p.m., Broadway 3, SLC Sat. 1/27, 11:45 a.m., Egyptian, PC Thu. 1/25, 9:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Wed. 1/24, 3:00 p.m., Temple, PC Fri. 1/26, 3:00 p.m., Temple, PC THIS IS HOME Thu. 1/25, 10:00 a.m., Holiday 4, PC THE OSLO DIARIES English and Arabic with English subtitles English and Hebrew/Arabic with English subtitles A POLAR YEAR This is an intimate portrait of four Syrian families A WOMAN CAPTURED In 1992, Israeli-Palestinian relations reached an Danish/Inuit with English subtitles arriving in Baltimore, Maryland, and struggling to Hungarian with English subtitles all-time low. In an attempt to stop the bloodshed, find their footing. With eight months to become Anders leaves his native Denmark for a teaching A European woman has been kept by a family a group of Israelis and Palestinians met illegally self-sufficient, they must forge ahead to rebuild position in rural Greenland. As soon as he arrives, as a domestic slave for 10 years—one of over in Oslo. These meetings were never officially their lives. When the travel ban adds further he finds himself at odds with tight-knit locals. Only 45 million victims of modern-day slavery. sanctioned and were held in complete secrecy. complications, their strength and resilience are through a clumsy and playful trial of errors can Drawing courage from the filmmaker’s presence, They changed the Middle East forever. put to the test. Anders shake his Eurocentric assumptions and she decides to escape the unbearable oppression Sun. 1/21, 6:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC embrace their snow-covered way of life. Sat. 1/20, 5:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC and become a free person. Mon. 1/22, 12:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC Sun. 1/21, 4:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Sun. 1/21, 2:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC Fri. 1/19, 9:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Thu. 1/25, 3:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Mon. 1/22, 6:45 p.m., Broadway 3, SLC Mon. 1/22, 7:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Mon. 1/22, 6:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC Fri. 1/26, 9:45 p.m., Broadway 3, SLC Thu. 1/25, noon, Park Ave., PC Thu. 1/25, 1:00 p.m., Holiday 4, PC Wed. 1/24, 9:00 a.m., Temple, PC Sat. 1/27, 2:30 p.m., Holiday 1, PC Fri. 1/26, 8:30 a.m., Prospector, PC Fri. 1/26, 6:00 p.m., Tower, SLC Fri. 1/26, 6:15 p.m., Holiday 2, PC Sat. 1/27, 12:15 p.m., Holiday 2, PC Sat. 1/27, 11:30 a.m., Holiday 1, PC

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BEIRUT COME SUNDAY A FUTILE AND JULIET, NAKED English and Arabic/French with English subtitles Internationally renowned pastor Carlton Pearson— STUPID GESTURE Annie is the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan, A U.S. diplomat flees Lebanon in 1972 after a experiencing a crisis of faith—risks his church, The story of comedy wunderkind Doug Kenney, an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe. tragic incident at his home. Ten years later, he is family, and future when he questions church who co-created National Lampoon magazine, When the acoustic demo of Tucker’s celebrated called back to war-torn Beirut by CIA operatives doctrine and finds himself branded a modern-day Caddyshack, and Animal House. Kenney was at record from 25 years ago surfaces, its release to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind. heretic. Based on actual events. the center of the ’70s comedy counterculture that leads to an encounter between Annie and the Sun. 1/21, 6:30 p.m., Eccles, PC gave birth to Saturday Night Live and a whole elusive rocker himself. Based on the novel by Mon. 1/22, 9:30 p.m., Eccles, PC Nick Hornby. Tue. 1/23, 9:00 a.m., Eccles, PC Mon. 1/22, 9:00 a.m., Eccles, PC generation’s way of looking at the world. Thu. 1/25, 9:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Wed. 1/24, 9:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Wed. 1/24, 9:30 p.m., Eccles, PC Fri. 1/19, 6:45 p.m., Eccles, PC Sat. 1/27, 5:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Fri. 1/26, 9:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Thu. 1/25, 8:30 a.m., The MARC, PC Sat. 1/20, 8:30 a.m., The MARC, PC Sat. 1/27, 9:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC Fri. 1/26, 11:59 p.m., Tower, SLC Sun. 1/21, 3:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC Sat. 1/27, 6:00 p.m., Temple, PC Mon. 1/22, noon, Sundance Resort THE CATCHER WAS A SPY Sat. 1/27, 8:30 p.m., The MARC, PC English and Japanese/Italian/French/German/ DAMSEL Dutch with English subtitles Samuel Alabaster, an affluent pioneer, ventures THE HAPPY PRINCE across the American frontier to marry the love of A KID LIKE JAKE The true story of Moe Berg: professional baseball English and French/Italian with English subtitles his life, Penelope. As Samuel, a drunkard named A Brooklyn couple has always known that player, Ivy League graduate, attorney who spoke Parson Henry, and a miniature horse called The last days of Oscar Wilde—and the ghosts their four-year-old son is more interested in nine languages—and a top-secret OSS spy who Butterscotch traverse the Wild West, their haunting them—are brought to vivid life. His fairy tale princesses than toy cars. But when helped the U.S. win the race against Germany once-simple journey grows treacherous, blurring body ailing, Wilde lives in exile, surviving on the his preschool director points out that his to build the atomic bomb. the lines between hero, villain, and damsel. flamboyant irony and brilliant wit that defined him, gender-nonconforming play may be more than Fri. 1/19, 8:30 p.m., The MARC, PC as the transience of lust is laid bare and the true Tue. 1/23, 3:30 p.m., Eccles, PC a phase, the couple is forced to rethink their Wed. 1/24, 6:30 p.m., Eccles, PC riches of love are revealed. Wed. 1/24, 9:00 a.m., PC Library, PC roles as parents and spouses. Thu. 1/25, 9:00 a.m., Eccles, PC Sun. 1/21, 9:30 p.m., Eccles, PC Sat. 1/27, 9:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Tue. 1/23, 9:30 p.m., Eccles, PC Sat. 1/27, 5:30 p.m., The MARC, PC Mon. 1/22, 9:00 a.m., PC Library, PC Sun. 1/28, 12:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Wed. 1/24, 9:00 a.m., Eccles, PC Sun. 1/28, 6:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC Wed. 1/24, 9:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Fri. 1/26, 9:00 p.m., Tower, SLC Sat. 1/27, 7:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Sat. 1/27, 6:45 p.m., The Ray, PC Sun. 1/28, 3:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC COLETTE DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T Sun. 1/28, 1:00 p.m., Sundance Resort A young country woman marries a famous literary GET FAR ON FOOT entrepreneur in turn-of-the-century Paris; at her John Callahan has a talent for off-color jokes … and HEARTS BEAT LOUD LEAVE NO TRACE husband’s request, Colette pens a series of best- a drinking problem. When a bender ends in a car In Red Hook, Brooklyn, a father and daughter A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious selling novels published under his name. But as her accident, Callahan wakes to learn he’s permanently become an unlikely songwriting duo in their last existence in Forest Park—a beautiful nature reserve confidence grows, she transforms not only herself confined to a wheelchair. In his journey back from summer before she leaves for college. near Portland, Oregon—rarely making contact and her marriage but also the world around her. rock bottom, Callahan finds beauty and comedy in with the world. But a small mistake tips off the the absurdity of human experience. CLOSING NIGHT Sat. 1/20, 6:30 p.m., Eccles, PC authorities, sending them on an increasingly erratic Sun. 1/21, 9:00 a.m., Eccles, PC Fri. 1/19, 9:45 p.m., Eccles, PC Fri. 1/26, 6:30 p.m., Eccles, PC journey in search of a place to call their own. Sun. 1/21, 6:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC Sat. 1/20, 9:00 a.m., Eccles, PC Sat. 1/27, 9:00 a.m., Eccles, PC Wed. 1/24, 6:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Sat. 1/20, 3:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC Sat. 1/20, 9:30 p.m., Eccles, PC Sun. 1/28, 12:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC Sat. 1/27, 6:30 p.m., Eccles, PC Fri. 1/26, 6:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Sun. 1/21, 8:30 a.m., The MARC, PC Sat. 1/27, 3:30 p.m., Eccles, PC Fri. 1/26, 6:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Sat. 1/27, 12:15 p.m., Eccles, PC Sun. 1/28, 10:00 a.m., Sundance Resort

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THE LONG DUMB ROAD PUZZLE AKICITA: THE BATTLE CHEF FLYNN Two very different men at personal crossroads Agnes, taken for granted as a suburban mother, OF STANDING ROCK Ten-year-old Flynn transforms his living room into a meet serendipitously and take an unpredictable discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles that Standing Rock, 2016: the largest Native American supper club, using his classmates as line cooks and journey through the American Southwest. unexpectedly draws her into a new world—a world occupation since Wounded Knee. Thousands serving a tasting menu foraged from his neighbors’ Fri. 1/26, 9:30 p.m, Eccles, PC where her life unfolds in ways she could never of activists, environmentalists, and militarized backyards. With sudden fame, Flynn outgrows his Sat. 1/27, 8:30 a.m., The MARC, PC have imagined. police descend on the Dakota Access Pipeline in bedroom kitchen and mother’s camera and sets Tue. 1/23, 6:30 p.m., Eccles, PC a standoff between oil corporations and a new out to challenge the hierarchy of the culinary world. Wed. 1/24, 8:30 a.m., The MARC, PC generation of Native warriors. This chronicle Tue. 1/23, 11:30 a.m., Prospector, PC OPHELIA Sat. 1/27, 6:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC captures the sweeping struggle, spirit, and Wed. 1/24, 6:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC A mythic spin on Hamlet through a lens of havoc of a people’s uprising. Thu. 1/25, 3:30 p.m., The Ray, PC female empowerment: Ophelia comes of age Tue. 1/23, 2:30 p.m., Prospector, PC as lady-in-waiting for Queen Gertrude, and WHAT THEY HAD Thu. 1/25, 6:00 p.m., Temple, PC Bridget returns home to Chicago at her brother’s THE GAME CHANGERS her singular spirit captures Hamlet’s affections. Sat. 1/27, 9:00 p.m., Tower, SLC As lust and betrayal threaten the kingdom, urging to deal with their mother’s Alzheimer’s and James Wilks, an elite special-forces trainer and Ophelia finds herself trapped between true father’s reluctance to let go of their life together. winner of The Ultimate Fighter, embarks on a love and controlling her own destiny. Sun. 1/21, 3:30 p.m., Eccles, PC BAD REPUTATION quest for the truth about nutrition and uncovers Mon. 1/22, 6:30 p.m., Eccles, PC Mon. 1/22, 8:30 a.m., The MARC, PC A look at the life of Joan Jett, from her early the world’s most dangerous myth. Tue. 1/23, 8:30 a.m., The MARC, PC Tue. 1/23, 3:00 p.m., Sundance Resort years as a founder of The Runaways and her first Fri. 1/19, 3:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Thu. 1/25, noon, Sundance Resort Fri. 1/26, 6:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC meeting with collaborator Kenny Laguna in 1980 Sat. 1/20, noon, Sundance Resort Fri. 1/26, 9:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC Sat. 1/27, 8:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC to her enduring presence in pop culture as a Sun. 1/21, 9:00 a.m., Temple, PC Sat. 1/27, 8:30 p.m., Prospector, PC rock ’n’ roll pioneer and feminist icon. Mon. 1/22, 9:15 p.m., SLC Library, SLC Tue. 1/23, 7:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC* Mon. 1/22, 2:30 p.m., The MARC, PC Sat. 1/27, 6:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC PRIVATE LIFE Tue. 1/23, 8:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC Fri. 1/26, 3:00 p.m., Redstone 7, PC *Townie Tuesday screening for Summit County locals. A couple in the throes of infertility try to maintain Sat. 1/27, 9:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Pass holders must waitlist. their marriage as they descend deeper into the weird world of assisted reproduction and domestic adoption. When their doctor suggests BELIEVER GENERATION WEALTH third-party reproduction, they bristle. But when Imagine Dragons’ Mormon frontman Dan Reynolds English and Mandarin/Russian/Icelandic Sadie, a recent college dropout, re-enters their is taking on a new mission to explore how the Lauren Greenfield’s postcard from the edge of life, they reconsider. church treats its LGBTQ members. With the rising the American Empire captures a materialistic, suicide rate among teens in the state of Utah, image-obsessed culture. Simultaneously a personal DAY ONE his concern with the Mormon church’s policies journey and historical essay, the film bears witness sends him on an unexpected path for acceptance Thu. 1/18, 9:00 p.m., Eccles, PC to the global boom-and-bust economy, the Fri. 1/19, 9:00 a.m., Eccles, PC and change. corrupted American Dream, and the human costs Fri. 1/19, 9:00 p.m., Tower, SLC Sat. 1/20, 8:45 p.m., The MARC, PC of late-stage capitalism, narcissism, and greed. Sat. 1/20, 9:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Sun. 1/21, 6:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Sat. 1/27, 9:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC Mon. 1/22, 6:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC DAY ONE Tue. 1/23, 10:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Sat. 1/27, 9:00 p.m., Temple, PC Thu. 1/18, 8:30 p.m., The MARC, PC Sat. 1/20, 3:00 p.m., Temple, PC Sun. 1/21, 6:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Thu. 1/25, 8:30 a.m., Prospector, PC Sat. 1/27, 6:00 p.m., Sundance Resort 10 Check our website or mobile app for more information. • sundance.org/festival • #sundance DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT PREMIERES

HALF THE PICTURE QUIET HEROES STUDIO 54 BEAST At a pivotal moment for gender equality in In Salt Lake City, Utah, the socially conservative, Studio 54 was the pulsating epicenter of 1970s In a small island community, a troubled young Hollywood, successful women directors tell the religious monoculture complicated the AIDS hedonism: a disco hothouse of beautiful people, woman falls for a mysterious outsider who stories of their art, lives, and careers. Having crisis, where patients in the entire state and drugs, and sex. The journeys of founders Ian empowers her to escape from her oppressive endured a long history of systemic discrimination, intermountain region relied on only one doctor. Schrager and Steve Rubell—two best friends from family. When he comes under suspicion for women filmmakers may be getting the first glimpse This is the story of her fight to save a maligned Brooklyn who conquered New York City—frame a series of brutal murders, she learns what she’s of a future that values their voices equally. population that everyone else seemed willing to this history of the “greatest club of all time.” capable of as she defends him at all costs. Tue. 1/23, 5:30 p.m., Prospector, PC just let die. Sun. 1/21, 11:30 a.m., The MARC, PC Fri. 1/19, 6:00 p.m., Tower, SLC Wed. 1/24, 9:45 p.m., Broadway 3, SLC Sun. 1/21, 6:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Mon. 1/22, 3:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC Mon. 1/22, 3:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Thu. 1/25, 9:30 a.m., The Ray, PC Tue. 1/23, noon, Egyptian, PC Tue. 1/23, 6:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Tue. 1/23, 6:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Fri. 1/26, 7:00 p.m., Holiday 4, PC Fri. 1/26, 9:30 a.m., The Ray, PC Sat. 1/27, 10:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC JANE FONDA IN FIVE ACTS Sat. 1/27, 11:59 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Girl next door, activist, so-called traitor, fitness tycoon, RBG THE DEATH OF STALIN Academy Award winner: Jane Fonda has lived a life An intimate portrait of an unlikely rock star: Justice WON’T YOU BE MY The internal political landscape of 1950s Soviet of controversy, tragedy, and transformation—and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. With unprecedented NEIGHBOR? Russia through a darkly comic lens. In the days she’s done it all in the public eye. This is an intimate access, show how her early legal Fred Rogers used puppets and play to explore following Stalin’s collapse, his core ministers look at one woman’s singular journey. battles changed the world for women. Now this complex social issues: race, disability, equality, tussle for control; some want positive change, Sat. 1/20, 2:15 p.m., The MARC, PC 84-year-old does pushups as easily as she writes and tragedy, helping form the American concept but others have more sinister motives. Their one Sun. 1/21, 9:00 a.m., The Ray, PC the blistering dissents that earned her the title of childhood. He spoke directly to children and common trait? They’re all just desperately trying Mon. 1/22, 6:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC “Notorious RBG.” they responded enthusiastically. Yet today, his to remain alive. Fri. 1/26, 9:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC Sun. 1/21, 5:30 p.m., The MARC, PC impact is unclear. Have we lived up to Fred’s Fri. 1/19, 6:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC Sat. 1/27, 6:45 p.m., Broadway 3, SLC Mon. 1/22, 11:30 a.m., Prospector, PC ideal of good neighbors? Sat. 1/20, 5:45 p.m., The MARC, PC Thu. 1/25, 6:00 p.m., Tower, SLC Sat. 1/27, 11:30 p.m., Prospector, PC KING IN THE WILDERNESS Sat. 1/27, 8:45 p.m., Park Ave., PC OPENING NIGHT From the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 Fri. 1/19, 2:30 p.m., The MARC, PC FOXTROT to his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. ROBIN WILLIAMS: Fri. 1/19, 7:00 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC English and Hebrew/German remained a man with an unshakable commitment COME INSIDE MY MIND Sat. 1/20, noon, Temple, PC with English subtitles Fri. 1/26, 12:30 p.m., The Ray, PC to nonviolence in the face of an increasingly Michael and Dafna are devastated when army This intimate portrait examines one of the world’s Sat. 1/27, 6:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC unstable country. This is a portrait of the last most beloved and inventive comedians. Told largely officials show up at their home, announcing the years of his life. through Robin’s own voice and using a wealth of death of their son Jonathan. While his sedated wife Mon. 1/22, 5:30 p.m., The MARC, PC never-before-seen archival footage, the film takes rests, Michael spirals into a whirlwind of anger only Tue. 1/23, 6:00 p.m., Temple, PC us through his extraordinary life and career and to experience one of life’s unfathomable twists, Sat. 1/27, 6:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC reveals the spark of madness that drove him. which rivals his son’s surreal military experiences. Sun. 1/28, 3:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Fri. 1/19, 5:30 p.m., The MARC, PC Fri. 1/19, 6:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC Sat. 1/20, 8:45 a.m., PC Library, PC Tue. 1/23, noon, PC Library, PC Sun. 1/21, 12:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Fri. 1/26, 6:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Sat. 1/27, 9:00 p.m., Redstone 7, PC Sat. 1/27, 9:00 p.m., Sundance Resort

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I AM NOT A WITCH SWEET COUNTRY 306 HOLLYWOOD CLARA’S GHOST English and Bemba/Nyanja/Tongan English and Aboriginal Australian English and Italian with English subtitles Over the course of a single evening at the Reynolds with English subtitles with English subtitles When two siblings undertake an archaeological family home in Connecticut, Clara, fed up with the After a minor incident, nine-year-old Shula is In 1920s Australia, a middle-aged Aboriginal excavation of their late grandmother’s house, they constant ribbing from her self-absorbed showbiz exiled to a witch camp, where she is told that if man’s comfortable life is upended by a newcomer’s embark on a magical-realist documentary journey family, finds solace in and guidance from the she escapes, she’ll be transformed into a goat. arrival. Wanted for murder in the bloody aftermath from her home in New Jersey to ancient Rome, supernatural force she believes is haunting her. As she navigates through her new life, she must of a violent shoot-out, he must flee into the from fashion to physics, in search of what life Fri. 1/19, noon, PC Library, PC decide whether to accept her fate or risk the dangerous outback with his wife. remains in the objects we leave behind. Sat. 1/20, 9:30 a.m., The Ray, PC consequences of seeking freedom. Fri. 1/19, 2:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC Sat. 1/20, 6:45 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC DAY ONE Tue. 1/23, 3:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Sat. 1/20, 9:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC Wed. 1/24, 9:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Sat. 1/27, 6:15 p.m., Redstone 7, PC Mon. 1/22, 11:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Thu. 1/25, 11:30 a.m., Egyptian, PC Thu. 1/18, 6:00 p.m., Prospector, PC Sat. 1/27, 2:30 p.m., The MARC, PC Fri. 1/19, 8:30 a.m., The MARC, PC THE RIDER Sat. 1/20, 3:00 p.m., Sundance Resort AN EVENING WITH YOU WERE NEVER Sun. 1/21, noon, Broadway 6, SLC BEVERLY LUFF LINN After a tragic riding accident, young cowboy and Wed. 1/24, 8:45 p.m., Egyptian, PC Lulu Danger’s unsatisfying marriage takes a rising rodeo-circuit star Brady Jandreau is told REALLY HERE Fri. 1/26, 3:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC that his competition days are over. In an attempt Joe, a traumatized veteran unafraid of violence, fortunate turn for the worse when a mysterious to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job man from her past comes to town to perform an search for new identity and tries to redefine his spins out of control, his nightmares overtake him A BOY. A GIRL. A DREAM. event called “An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn idea of manhood in America’s heartland. and a conspiracy is uncovered, leading to what On the night of the 2016 presidential election, For One Magical Night Only.” Fri. 1/19, 7:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC may be his death trip—or his awakening. Cass, an LA club promoter, takes a thrilling and Sat. 1/20, 6:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Sat. 1/20, 9:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC Fri. 1/19, 9:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC emotional journey with Frida, a Midwestern visitor. Sun. 1/21, 9:00 a.m., PC Library, PC Mon. 1/22, 9:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Sun. 1/21, 8:30 p.m., The MARC, PC She challenges him to revisit his broken dreams— Tue. 1/23, 11:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Sat. 1/27, 6:15 p.m., Holiday 2, PC Tue. 1/23, 11:45 p.m., Egyptian, PC while he pushes her to discover hers. Fri. 1/26, 3:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Sat. 1/27, 12:15 p.m., The Grand, SLC Sat. 1/27, 6:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Mon. 1/22, noon, PC Library, PC Tue. 1/23, 5:30 p.m., The MARC, PC Wed. 1/24, 3:00 p.m., Tower, SLC MADELINE’S MADELINE Wed. 1/24, 9:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC Madeline got the part! She’s going to play the Fri. 1/26, 7:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Sat. 1/27, 9:30 a.m., The Ray, PC lead in a theatre piece! Except the lead wears sweatpants like Madeline’s. And has a cat like Madeline’s. And is holding a steaming hot iron next to her mother’s face—like Madeline is. Mon. 1/22, 3:00 p.m., PC Library, PC Tue. 1/23, 2:30 p.m., The MARC, PC Wed. 1/24, 9:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC Fri. 1/26, 6:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC Sat. 1/27, 3:15 p.m., Holiday 2, PC

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NIGHT COMES ON WE THE ANIMALS ARIZONA LORDS OF CHAOS Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention Us three, us brothers, us kings. Manny, Joel, and Set in the midst of the 2009 housing crisis, this Based on truth (and lies), this dark drama is about on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her Jonah tear their way through childhood and push darkly comedic story follows Cassie Fowler, a precocious teenager, Euronymous, who wants past, she embarks on a journey with her against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny a single mom and struggling realtor whose life to spread evil, chaos, and true Norwegian black 10-year-old sister that could destroy their future. and Joel grow into versions of their father, and Ma goes off the rails when she witnesses a murder. metal. When Euronymous invites a mysterious Fri. 1/19, 9:30 p.m., The Ray, PC dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces Sat. 1/20, 11:45 p.m., Egyptian, PC loner, Varg, to join his “Black Circle,” a rivalry Sat. 1/20, 11:30 p.m., Prospector, PC an imagined world all his own. Mon. 1/22, 4:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC sparks, leading to unexpected consequences. Sun. 1/21, 9:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Sat. 1/20, noon, PC Library, PC Fri. 1/26, 6:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Tue. 1/23, 11:59 p.m., PC Library, PC Wed. 1/24, 9:00 p.m., Temple, PC Mon. 1/22, 9:15 a.m., The Ray, PC Sat. 1/27, 11:45 p.m., Egyptian, PC Wed. 1/24, 9:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Thu. 1/25, 3:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC Wed. 1/24, 6:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC Thu. 1/25, 11:59 p.m., PC Library, PC Thu. 1/25, 1:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Sat. 1/27, 10:00 p.m., Holiday 4, PC Fri. 1/26, 3:00 p.m., Sundance Resort ASSASSINATION NATION SEARCH Sat. 1/27, 2:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC This is a 1,000 percent true story about how the After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a quiet, all-American town of Salem absolutely MANDY desperate father breaks into her laptop to look WHITE RABBIT lost its mind. Pacific Northwest, 1983 AD: Outsiders Red for clues to find her. A thriller that unfolds entirely Sun. 1/21, 11:59 p.m., PC Library, PC Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and on computer screens. A dramatic comedy following a Korean American Mon. 1/22, 12:15 p.m., The Ray, PC peaceful existence. When their pine-scented Sun. 1/21, 6:30 p.m., The Ray, PC performance artist who struggles to be Wed. 1/24, 11:30 p.m., Prospector, PC haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the Tue. 1/23, 9:00 a.m., PC Library, PC authentically heard and seen through her Thu. 1/25, 12:30 p.m., The Ray, PC sadistic Jeremiah Sand, Red is catapulted into Thu. 1/25, 12:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC multiple identities in modern Los Angeles. Sat. 1/27, 11:59 p.m., Tower, SLC a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody Fri. 1/26, 11:30 a.m., Prospector, PC Preceded by LAZERCISM vengeance and laced with fire. Sat. 1/27, noon, SLC Library, SLC Fri. 1/19, 3:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC HEREDITARY Fri. 1/19, 11:59 p.m., PC Library, PC Sat. 1/20, 5:45 p.m., Park Ave., PC Sun. 1/21, 11:30 p.m., Prospector, PC After their reclusive grandmother passes away, Tue. 1/23, 3:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Sun. 1/21, 3:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC SKATE KITCHEN the Graham family tries to escape the dark fate Thu. 1/25, 4:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Wed. 1/24, 11:59 p.m., PC Library, PC Camille’s life as a lonely suburban teenager they’ve inherited. Sat. 1/27, 9:15 a.m., Holiday 2, PC Sat. 1/27, 3:30 p.m., The Ray, PC changes dramatically when she befriends a group Sun. 1/21, 11:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC of girl skateboarders. As she journeys deeper into Mon. 1/22, 8:30 p.m., The MARC, PC this raw New York City subculture, she begins to Tue. 1/23, 6:00 p.m., Tower, SLC NEVER GOIN’ BACK understand the true meaning of friendship as well Wed. 1/24, 11:45 p.m., Egyptian, PC Jessie and Angela, high school dropout BFFs, are as her inner self. Sat. 1/27, noon, Redstone 7, PC taking a week off to chill at the beach. Too bad their Sun. 1/21, 9:30 p.m., PC Library, PC house got robbed, rent’s due, they’re about to get Mon. 1/22, 8:15 a.m., Egyptian, PC fired, and they’re broke. Now they’ve gotta avoid Wed. 1/24, 10:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC eviction, stay out of jail, and get to the beach, no Fri. 1/26, 9:00 p.m., Temple, PC matter what! Sat. 1/27, 3:00 p.m., Tower, SLC Mon. 1/22, 11:45 p.m., Egyptian, PC Tue. 1/23, 11:30 a.m., The MARC, PC Fri. 1/26, 6:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC Sat. 1/27, 6:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC

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PIERCING AMERICA TO ME INDIE EPISODIC PROGRAM 1 INDIE EPISODIC PROGRAM 2 In this twisted love story, a man seeks out an This limited series captures a yearlong look at unsuspecting stranger to help him purge the dark one of Chicago’s most progressive and diverse PAINT THIS CLOSE torments of his past. His plan goes awry when he public schools, located in suburban Oak Park. A half-hour comedy/drama that follows the English and American Sign Language encounters a woman with plans of her own. Unprecedented in scope, the series is both adventures and exploits of three young artists living with English subtitles A playful psycho-thriller game of cat-and-mouse, intimate and epic in its storytelling as it explores in Brooklyn, as they struggle to make it not only in Best friends Kate and Michael, who are deaf, try based on Ryū Murakami’s novel. America’s charged state of race, culture, and the art world but in life. to balance their personal and professional lives. education today. She’s newly engaged and struggles to grow at Sat. 1/20, 11:59 p.m., PC Library, PC FRANCHESCA Sun. 1/21, 8:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC work, while he battles self-destructive writer’s Episodes 1–3 (Part 1)* Comedian Franchesca Ramsey finds communion Wed. 1/24, 8:30 p.m., The MARC, PC block after having his heart broken. As they tackle Mon. 1/22, 6:00 p.m., The Ray, PC and culture in this short-form series that explores Fri. 1/26, 11:59 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC their own issues, their friendship is put to the test. Episodes 4–5 (Part 2)* Sat. 1/27, 11:59 p.m., PC Library, PC beauty and fashion in the digital age. This episode Tue. 1/23, 9:00 a.m., The Ray, PC finds Franchesca escaping ubiquitous internet THE MORTIFIED GUIDE *Attendees will receive a ticket to part 2 upon arrival at trolls as she spends the day with friend Michelle Real people share their childhood writings and art part 1. REVENGE Buteau getting an ornate Japanese gel manicure. in front of total strangers, offering a comedic look English and French with English subtitles Episodes 1–5 at the biggest issues of adolescence, from first Thu. 1/25, 3:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC HALFWAY THERE loves to fitting in. Based on theMortified stage Three wealthy married men get together for their Sat. 1/27, 6:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC annual hunting game in a desert canyon. This time, When recovering addict Jimmy Bishop finds shows, books, podcast, and film, this uproarious one of them has brought along his young mistress, his sober living facility teetering on the edge of docuseries celebrates the awkward insecurities who quickly arouses the interest of the other two. bankruptcy, he is forced to take in his wealthy, that shaped us all. Things get dramatically out of hand as a hunting alcoholic mother as a client. Her arrival solves Tue. 1/23, 6:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC game turns into a ruthless manhunt. his immediate financial crisis but also unleashes every other problem he has struggled his whole life Wed. 1/24, 12:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Fri. 1/19, 11:45 p.m., Egyptian, PC to contain. Thu. 1/25, 6:45 p.m., Broadway 3, SLC Sat. 1/20, 4:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Wed. 1/24, 6:00 p.m., Tower, SLC Tue. 1/23, 12:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Fri. 1/26, 11:59 p.m., PC Library, PC Wed. 1/24, 3:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC Thu. 1/25, 3:45 p.m., Broadway 3, SLC SUMMER OF ’84 Summer, 1984: a perfect time to be a carefree 15-year-old. But when neighborhood conspiracy theorist Davey Armstrong begins to suspect his police officer neighbor might be the serial killer all over the local news, he and his three best friends begin an investigation that soon turns dangerous. Mon. 1/22, 11:59 p.m., PC Library, PC Tue. 1/23, 9:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Wed. 1/24, 9:00 p.m., Tower, SLC Thu. 1/25, 11:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Sat. 1/27, 7:00 p.m., Holiday 4, PC

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INDIE EPISODIC PROGRAM 3 INDIE EPISODIC PROGRAM 4 INDIE EPISODIC PROGRAM 5 INDIE EPISODIC PROGRAM 6 MR INBETWEEN TAMMY’S TINY TEA TIME I’M POPPY LEIMERT PARK Father, ex-husband, boyfriend: tough roles to A short-form animated series about a maladjusted Join internet sensation Poppy as she enters the Three friends share a house in South Los Angeles’s juggle in the modern age. They’re even harder 42-year-old woman with the emotional capacity real world for the very first time and quickly Leimert Park. Despite being married, beats-maker when you’re a hitman. Ray Shoesmith must of a child who shrinks to the size of her toys and realizes that fame and fortune come at a price, Mickey hasn’t orgasmed in three months; Bridget navigate his chilling business while also forces them to entertain her, before the show plays with secret societies, dangerous fanatics, and mistakes sex for love while assisting a visiting artist; maintaining friendships, parental responsibilities, several completely unrelated animated shorts. a very envious mannequin named Charlotte. and Kendra shoots videos of her sexual encounters and a fledgling romance. with the goal of landing her own art show. THE SHOW ABOUT THE SHOW CHERRIES HIGH & MIGHTY (SEASON 2) After a long separation, two sisters are forced THE ADULTERERS After years of being perpetually stoned, drunk, In season 2, Caveh and Mandy break up over to come together. When the man that once got Two co-workers engaged in an extramarital affair and jobless in the hood, Chelo Chavez needs to the show. Caveh gets involved with a fan, but between them reappears, a triangle emerges and discover an unexpected but limited intimacy, get his shit together. After emerging unscathed the pressure of having every aspect of their they find themselves in a similar place as they were unlocking a secret world where creativity and from multiple gunshots delivered by a mysterious relationship made public begins to erode that years before: suffocating, infuriating, and incredibly freedom can blossom. How long can they sustain man in a flower truck, Chelo discovers that he relationship as well. The show becomes a familiar. Home. this fleeting magic in the shadow of reality? has superhuman powers—but only when he’s runaway train that Caveh struggles to keep from Tue. 1/23, noon, Park Ave., PC drunk or high. being derailed. SUSANELAND Wed. 1/24, 3:30 p.m., The Ray, PC Surreal and darkly comedic vignettes from one Fri. 1/26, 9:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Tue. 1/23, 3:30 p.m., The Ray, PC TROPICAL COP TALES young woman’s life are the basis for this short-form Wed. 1/24, 6:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC episodic series. Susane means well, she has good Thu. 1/25, 9:45 p.m., Broadway 3, SLC Two burned-out city cops, Keymarion “Primetime” Weeyums and Demetrius “Meechie” Franks, intentions, but she finds herself challenged when relocate to a tropical paradise for a relaxing she winds up in awkward situations. twilight to their careers. It ends up being the most vicious, menacing place on earth—not even THE PASSAGE slightly relaxing. Phil is a wide-eyed mute on the run after escaping captivity. His scatterbrained ineptitude keeps Tue. 1/23, 2:45 p.m., Park Ave., PC getting him in trouble, but two agents hired to Wed. 1/24, 6:15 p.m., The Ray, PC recapture him always seem to be one step behind. Fri. 1/26, 3:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC The result is a series of misadventures that take the trio around the globe.

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SHORTS PROGRAM 1 SHORTS PROGRAM 2

DAY ONE FRY-UP CHEER UP BABY An intimate portrayal of what could be a family’s A young woman who was sexually assaulted MEN DON’T WHISPER WORLD OF TOMORROW last day together, set against the urban backdrop by a stranger on the subway is rendered with After being emasculated at a sales conference, EPISODE TWO: THE BURDEN OF of North London. psychological menace and sensory dislocation gay couple Reese and Peyton set out to do the OTHER PEOPLE’S THOUGHTS in this elliptical tale. most masculine thing they can think of—sleep Written entirely around candid audio recordings HOME SHOPPER with some women. of Don Hertzfeldt’s five-year-old niece,Episode In a loveless marriage, Penny finds solace in the JULIUS CAESAR WAS BURIED Two finds Emily Prime swept inside the brain of an hypnotic escape of the home shopping channel. IN A PET CEMETERY ARIA incomplete backup clone of her future self, who’s When things take an unexpected turn with her A short documentary portrait of the greatest pet Greek with English subtitles on a mission to reboot her broken mind. husband, the channel proves to be her saving cemetery in the world. Athens, present day: Seventeen-year-old Aria, grace … or was it the problem all along? who is working at Jimmy’s kebab place, is DON’T BE A HERO THE CLIMB waiting for a driving lesson from her father. A middle-aged woman battles loneliness and EMERGENCY Kyle is depressed, and a weekend bike ride boredom by robbing banks on her lunch break. Faced with an emergency situation, a group of with his best friend, Mike, should help. Fresh air. GARFIELD But after the adrenaline rush wears off, she still young Black and Latino friends carefully weigh Camaraderie. Exercise. But Mike has something Krishna wakes up in a strange place, with a strange has to deal with her deeply unhappy life. Inspired the pros and cons of calling the police. to say that might ruin the ride. guy. As she pieces together how she got there, she by a true story. realizes that the reasons may be bigger than just SWAMP WOULD YOU LOOK AT HER Thu. 1/18, 9:15 p.m., Prospector, PC Emberá/Spanish with English subtitles the night before. Fri. 1/19, 8:30 a.m., Egyptian, PC Macedonian with English subtitles Sat. 1/20, 6:45 p.m., Broadway 3, SLC Oscar and his family live in a humble country A hardheaded tomboy spots the unlikely solution ZION Sat. 1/27, 4:00 p.m., Holiday 4, PC house threatened by a massive hydroelectric to all of her problems in an all-male religious ritual. A portrait of Zion Clark, a young wrestler who was project. In the face of uncertainty and sorrow born without legs and grew up in foster care. at leaving the land where they were born, his Fri. 1/19, noon, Temple, PC grandparents decide to end it all. Sat. 1/20, noon, Redstone 7, PC Sat. 1/20, 9:45 p.m., Broadway 3, SLC Thu. 1/25, 6:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC

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SHORTS PROGRAM 3 SHORTS PROGRAM 4 MAUDE COUNTERFEIT KUNKOO WAR PAINT CAREFUL HOW YOU GO Teeny thought it was just another routine Hindi/Marathi with English subtitles A young black girl in South LA experiences a series A darkly comic psychological horror, which visits babysitting job—until she’s shocked to meet In a city that houses millions, Smita discovers of events at the convergence of racism and sexism three women as they indulge their taste for the client. As the day goes on, Teeny decides to a strange prerequisite to renting a house in during the Fourth of July holiday. recreational cruelty. Careful how you go … become the woman she had no idea she always middle-class Mumbai. She would make an ideal wanted to be … until she gets caught. tenant, except for one glaring flaw—she is an FOR NONNA ANNA THE VIOLENCE OF A CIVILIZATION Indian woman without a husband. English and Italian WITHOUT SECRETS THE FISHERMAN A trans girl cares for her Italian grandmother. An urgent reflection on indigenous sovereignty, Spanish with English subtitles PAINTING WITH JOAN She assumes that her nonna disapproves of the undead violence of museum archives, and A humble Cuban fisherman is having a harsh Are you curious about Minnesota’s #3 her—but instead discovers a tender bond in postmortem justice through the case of the winter on the open sea. For the sake of his family public-access painting show? Painting with Joan their shared vulnerability. “Kennewick Man,” a prehistoric Paleo-American and against all odds, he needs to capture a is coming to the Sundance Film Festival! man whose remains were found in Kennewick, fish tonight. Watch Joan paint beautiful snowy mountains THE TURK SHOP Washington, in 1996. and debate extraterrestrial sexuality with herself! Swedish with English subtitles WYRM INTIMITY A comedy about structural racism in the workplace. As she is showering, dressing, and putting on FAUVE Wyrm has two days to get his first kiss or he’ll be her makeup, a woman bares her soul. French with English subtitles NEVADA held back as part of the school district’s No Child Left Alone program and forced to wear his My.E.Q. Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a A young couple’s romantic weekend getaway Remote Monitoring collar throughout high school. WREN BOYS seemingly innocent power game with Mother is interrupted by a birth-control mishap in this On the day after Christmas, a Catholic priest Nature as the sole observer. stop-motion animated comedy. Fri. 1/19, noon, Sundance Resort from Cork drives his nephew to prison. Sat. 1/20, 6:00 p.m., Temple, PC Fri. 1/19, 9:00 p.m., Temple, PC Sun. 1/21, 3:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Sat. 1/20, noon, Broadway 6, SLC NUUCA Mon. 1/22, 1:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Sat. 1/20, 9:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC English and Hidatsa with English subtitles Fri. 1/26, 10:00 p.m., Holiday 4, PC Fri. 1/26, 1:00 p.m., Holiday 4, PC The oil boom in North Dakota has brought tens of thousands of new people to the region, and with that has come an influx of drugs, crime, and sex trafficking.

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SHORTS PROGRAM 5 ANIMATION SPOTLIGHT BLUE CHRISTMAS THE RIGHT CHOICE MANIVALD EYE BAGS On Christmas Eve, 1968, in a Scottish With the help of an adviser, a husband and wife Manivald is still living at home with his retired Cantonese with English subtitles coastal town, a debt collector goes to work must answer three seemingly harmless questions mother. The day before his 33rd birthday, a hot Through monologue, Talia describes her chronic to avoid confronting his wife’s worsening to create their perfect designer baby. young wolf named Toomas comes to fix their insomnia. She does not know its cause and spends psychosis at home. washing machine. A love triangle develops, which many painful nights awake. When Talia meets Ah AGUA VIVA leaves Manivald increasingly frustrated. Gum, a goldfish who lives in her eye bags, they JUDITH LOVES MARTHA A Chinese manicurist in Miami attempts to develop an interesting relationship. A wily 87-year-old New Yorker, Judith Godwin describe feelings she doesn’t have the words for. [O] is one of very few women of the Abstract A film that imitates nature in its manner of THE DRIVER IS RED Expressionist movement. A creative awakening END OF THE LINE operation, depicting animated cycles in a world Argentina, 1960: A true crime story of how secret in college led her to produce the brilliant, A lonely man goes to the pet store and buys entirely based on sound frequency and vibration. agent Zvi Aharoni hunts down one of the highest- gestural paintings for which she is renowned. a tiny man in a cage. ranking Nazi war criminals on the run. A BRIEF SPARK BOOKENDED MUD (HASHTŁ’ISHNII) MATRIA BY DARKNESS JEOM On her last day, Ruby faces the inescapable Galician with English subtitles A hand-drawn animated tale about love in an Korean with English subtitles remnants of alcoholism, family, and culture. Faced with a challenging daily routine, Ramona increasingly dark world. A father and a son both have the same big tries to take refuge in her relationships with her SET ME AS A SEAL birthmark on their butt. Believing that the two daughter and granddaughter. PLUR birthmarks are connected, the son scrubs his UPON THINE HEART A claymation adaptation of a series of actual father’s birthmark to remove it—but he just can’t Sat. 1/20, 9:00 p.m., Temple, PC Hebrew with English subtitles voicemails received after making out with someone get rid of it. Mon. 1/22, 3:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC at a rave. A gay sauna encounter between a young man Tue. 1/23, 1:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC and an older man becomes an unexpected lesson Thu. 1/25, noon, PC Library, PC THE BURDEN about love. GLUCOSE Swedish with English subtitles Sugar was the engine of the slave trade that A dark musical enacted in a modern shopping brought millions of Africans to America. Glucose center next to a large freeway. The employees is sweet, marketable, and easy to consume, but its of the various commercial venues deal with surface satisfaction is a thin coating on the pain of boredom and existential anxiety by performing many disenfranchised people. cheerful musical numbers, but the apocalypse is a tempting liberator.

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DOCUMENTARY SHORTS PROGRAM 1 MIDNIGHT SHORTS PROGRAM A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN VOLTE GREAT CHOICE ULTRAVIOLET Months before the start of World War II, 22,000 Polish with English subtitles A woman gets stuck in a Red Lobster commercial. Thai with English subtitles Americans gathered in New York’s Madison Square Zuzia, 12, has been training for two years and A woman named Kanchana and several scorpions Garden to rally in support of Nazism. has an extraordinary role topping the acrobatic DEER BOY explore collaborative survival approaches in a pyramid. At the start of a new season, it’s clear that A hunter’s son is born with antlers. A reflection on posthuman future in which all living beings are THE TRADER (SOVDAGARI) she’s lost some grace and lightness. A growth spurt how each man kills the thing he loves. considered equal. Interspecies sociability, the Georgian with English subtitles may be the culprit. Anthropocene, and speculative fabulations unfold Gela sells secondhand clothes and household HAIR WOLF in a futuristic and enchanted world. items in places where money is potatoes. SYMPHONY OF A SAD SEA In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the Spanish with English subtitles local residents fend off a strange new monster: THE BLAZING WORLD white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from VOX LIPOMA Hugo, a Mexican child and victim of violence, flees Margaret has been plagued with dreams of a black culture. Swedish with English subtitles his hometown with one single dream: crossing to strange world since she was a little girl. After a mysterious man with a map visits her one night, A short about Ingmar Bergman’s power, sexuality, the United States to meet his father and leave his THURSDAY NIGHT and facial lipoma that gives him no rest. past behind. she decides to give in to the incessant calls of An elusive stranger pays Bimbo a visit in the The Blazing World. BABY BROTHER MY DEAD DAD’S PORNO TAPES middle of the night to deliver a vital message. THE SHIVERING TRUTH The director’s baby brother moves back in Filmmaker Charlie Tyrell seeks to better understand BLACK with his parents. his emotionally distant late father through the An omnibus of painfully riotous daymares Japanese with English subtitles personal belongings he left behind … including a dripping with dream logic—a slate of emotional stack of dirty VHS movies. Narrated by David Wain. A pair of astronauts is trapped on an orbital space parables from the deepest caverns of your station due to unexpected nuclear war on Earth. unconscious, lovingly animated in stop-motion. Fri. 1/19, 9:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC In other words, it is the Truth. Sat. 1/20, 3:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC They lost contact with Earth, and all attempts to communicate with their base or anybody else Sun. 1/21, 9:00 p.m., Temple, PC Fri. 1/19, 11:30 p.m., Prospector, PC have failed. Thu. 1/25, 9:00 p.m., Park Ave., PC Sat. 1/20, 7:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Fri. 1/26, 12:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC DOCUMENTARY SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Sat. 1/27, 6:00 p.m., Tower, SLC END GAME RX EARLY DETECTION A CANCER English and Farsi with English subtitles JOURNEY WITH SANDRA LEE Filmed and edited in intimate vérité style, this work When Sandra Lee is stunned after her routine follows visionary medical practitioners who are annual mammogram delivers a breast cancer working on the cutting edge of life and death—and diagnosis, she takes a courageous journey dedicated to changing our thinking about both. through diagnosis, treatment, and recovery as her experience becomes a call for early detection. Sun. 1/21, 3:00 p.m., Sundance Resort Mon. 1/22, 9:00 p.m., Temple, PC Wed. 1/24, 4:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC Thu. 1/25, 3:00 p.m., Broadway 6, SLC Sat. 1/27, 8:30 a.m., Holiday 1, PC

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THE KING RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE: AN EVENING WITH TODD HAYNES SMOKE SIGNALS Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, a A RETROSPECTIVE OF THE In the 30 years since he burst onto the indie scene, When Victor’s estranged father, Arnold, dies in musical road trip across America in his 1963 CULTURAL PHENOMENON Todd Haynes has established himself as one of Arizona, he must leave his home on an Idaho Rolls-Royce explores how a country boy lost his A retrospective of VH1’s Emmy-winning RuPaul’s the most distinctive voices in American cinema. reservation to retrieve Arnold’s ashes. Victor’s authenticity and became a king while his country Drag Race on the heels of its 10th season, and a A special conversation with Haynes, his longtime friend Thomas offers to fund the trip, but only lost her democracy and became an empire. panel hosted by RuPaul with executive producers collaborator—producer Christine Vachon—and if he can accompany Victor. Together they Thu. 1/25, 5:30 p.m., The MARC, PC Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, along with moderator Richard Linklater explores Haynes’s undertake a journey filled with discovery about Tom Campbell and the senior vice president of early work, including clips from notable, recently their personal and cultural identities. restored gems. LENNY original programming for MTV, VH1, and Logo, Fri. 1/26, 2:30 p.m., Prospector, PC Pamela Post. Sat. 1/20, 8:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner’s newsletter Fri. 1/26, 2:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC comes to life in this pilot, in which a diverse group of filmmakers explore sex, identity, culture, and death around the theme “women in pursuit.” THE TRADE Preceded by EVE English and Spanish with English subtitles Tue. 1/23, 5:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC A character-driven vérité docuseries that explores Thu. 1/25, 5:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC the opioid epidemic from the intimate perspectives Sun. 1/28, 6:00 p.m., Tower, SLC of growers, addicts, and law enforcement on both sides of the border. This interwoven narrative transcends the headlines to convey, with humanity PASS OVER and nuance, the scope and gravity of the crisis. A provocative riff on Waiting for Godot, capturing Wed. 1/24, 5:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC the poetry, humor, and humanity of this urgent and Thu. 1/25, 8:45 a.m., PC Library, PC timely play, Pass Over is about two young black Sat. 1/27, 9:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC men talking shit, passing the time, and dreaming of the promised land. Fri. 1/26, 2:30 p.m., The MARC, PC WILD WILD COUNTRY Sat. 1/27, 5:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC When a mysterious guru and his disciples Sun. 1/28, 6:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, SLC purchase a 64,000-acre ranch in desolate, rural Oregon—and build a $125 million utopian society—a war erupts with neighboring ranchers, pitting one way of life against the other and forcing both sides to take actions neither thought imaginable. Wed. 1/24, 9:30 a.m., Egyptian, PC Sun. 1/28, 10:00 a.m., Tower, SLC

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FILMS AND PERFORMANCES LU OVER THE WALL ★ NARCISSISTER ORGAN PLAYER Kai is a lonely teenage boy who lives in a small Japanese/French/German/Russian/Spanish/ This hybrid performance/documentary film fishing village. One day, he meets and befriends Lu, Dutch/Italian/Swedish/Hindi/Finnish/Norwegian/ explores how ancestral data is stored in our bodies, a fun-loving mermaid whose singing is hypnotic to Bulgarian/Portuguese impacting the lives we lead. On the personal level, all who hear it. But the townspeople have always This film, compiling shots of clear nighttime skies the film investigates how the artist’s complex family thought that mermaids bring disaster … from throughout film history in chronological history compelled her to create the masked, erotic Sat. 1/20, noon, SLC Library, SLC order, reveals that what humans may regard as performance character Narcissister. Sun. 1/21, 3:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC an absolute image is actually quite unstable. Fri. 1/19, 3:00 p.m., Temple, PC Sat. 1/27, 1:00 p.m., Redstone 2, PC This instability occurs not only from evolving Sat. 1/20, 3:00 p.m., Redstone 7, PC technological parameters but also as a result Sun. 1/21, 9:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC Sat. 1/27, 5:30 p.m., Holiday 1, PC SCIENCE FAIR of period-specific trends in culture. Fri. 1/19, 3:00 p.m., Sundance Resort English and Portuguese/German Sun. 1/21, 9:45 p.m., Broadway 3, SLC with English subtitles A THOUSAND THOUGHTS Tue. 1/23, 3:00 p.m., Temple, PC Nine high school students from around the Wed. 1/24, 9:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC A live cinema portrait of the legendary classical globe navigate rivalries, setbacks, and, of course, Sat. 1/27, 9:15 p.m., Holiday 2, PC music group the Kronos Quartet. Green narrates hormones on their journey to compete at the the film, and Kronos performs the soundtrack international science fair. Facing off against 1,700 live. A meditation on music itself—the act of of the smartest, quirkiest teens from 78 different DEEP ASTRONOMY AND THE listening closely to music, the experience of countries, only one will be named Best in Fair. ROMANTIC SCIENCES feeling music deeply, and the power of music to change the world. Sat. 1/20, 3:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC A live sci-fi event presented in the form of two Sun. 1/21, 12:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC master classes, featuring music, animation, and Mon. 1/22, 6:00 p.m., Egyptian, PC Tue. 1/23, 8:30 a.m., Prospector, PC artwork. Topics include the colonization of other Mon. 1/22, 8:30 p.m., Egyptian, PC Sat. 1/27, 12:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC planets, sentimentality reform, transdimensional drifting, the proper way to view the universe, and WHITE FANG the reason that humans exist. Fri. 1/19, 9:00 p.m., Park Ave. PC An updated reimagining of Jack London’s classic Mon. 1/22, 9:00 p.m., Park Ave. PC novel, this thrilling tale of kindness, survival, and the twin majesties of the animal kingdom and mankind traces the loving and magnificent hero White Fang, whose intense curiosity leads him on the adventure of a lifetime. Preceded by HEDGEHOG’S HOME Sun. 1/21, 11:30 a.m., Prospector, PC Sun. 1/21, 6:00 p.m., SLC Library, SLC Sat. 1/27, 3:30 p.m., Redstone 1, PC

21 Check our website or mobile app for more information. • sundance.org/festival • #sundance EXHIBITIONS NEW FRONTIER AWAVENA FRANKENSTEIN AI: TENDAR AT THE RAY English and Portuguese/Yawanawá A MONSTER MADE BY MANY TendAR is a humorous and provocative installation 1780 Park Ave. The Yawanawá, an indigenous Amazonian people, By challenging dystopian perspectives around that combines interactive storytelling, AR, and Park City see immersive technologies as tools they can artificial intelligence, this immersive experience emotion/face recognition technology to promote Tickets are required and co-opt to share their connected worldview. Inviting reimagines Shelley’s seminal work to examine discussion about current topics in biometric data are available during artist Lynette Wallworth to their community, the cultural ramifications of pervasive, ubiquitous and artificial intelligence. Your guide: a fish-like individual ticket sales (online the Yawanawá share the visions of Hushahu, technology. Participants interact with an artificial creature who amusingly analyzes the partners and at main box offices). their first woman shaman, and our technology intelligence, co-creating a shared narrative around collaborating in the experience, their emotions, eWaitlist also available renders visible the luminous world they have the implications of unleashing this naive, intelligent and the world around them. always known. “monster,” both mythical and imminent, into Installation powered by Google Friday, January 19– the world. Tuesday, January 23 New Frontier at The Ray New Frontier at The Ray 2:00–9:30 p.m. New Frontier at Kimball Art Center Wednesday, January 24– ELASTIC TIME VR_I Friday, January 26 A mixed-reality interactive documentary about HERO Blending art with technology, VR_I resulted from noon–9:30 p.m. space-time, narrated by astronomer Tony Stark An immersive, large-scale installation that explores the encounter between Swiss choreographer Saturday, January 27 (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics). humanity in our modern era of civilian warfare. Gilles Jobin and the founders of Artanim, 10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. A real-time hologram of your body is integrated In this vérité VR experience with multi-sensory Caecilia Charbonnier and Sylvain Chagué. In into the observatory room. Using the controllers, engagement, participants embark upon their own this contemplative virtual dance piece, five you bend space and time to your will, creating primal journey. When everyday life is disrupted spectators, immersed together and in real time, NEW FRONTIER black holes, wormholes, and time portals. by profound crisis, only human connection can use avatars to investigate a performance among inspire hope. surprising effects of scale. AT KIMBALL New Frontier at The Ray ART CENTER New Frontier at Kimball Art Center New Frontier at Kimball Art Center New Frontier at The Ray 1401 Kearns Blvd. EXPERIENCE REALISTIC Park City TOUCH IN VIRTUAL REALITY Open to credential holders HaptX brings realistic touch to virtual reality Friday, January 19– for the first time. The innovative technology lets Sunday, January 21 VR users feel the shape, movement, texture, 2:00–7:00 p.m. and temperature of digital objects. By providing Monday, January 22– advanced haptic feedback and natural interaction, Friday, January 26 HaptX enables unprecedented levels of realism noon–7:00 p.m. in virtual experiences. Saturday, January 27 New Frontier at The Ray 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

22 Check our website or mobile app for more information. • sundance.org/festival • #sundance VR EXPERIENCES THE BOX VR BAR BATTLESCAR SPHERES: SONGS OF SPACETIME AT THE RAY at Music Café New York City, 1978: When Lupe, a Puerto Rican Dive into the heart of a black hole and uncover 1780 Park Ave. 751 Main St. American teen, meets fellow runaway Debbie, the the hidden songs of the cosmos. In this interactive Park City Park City Bowery’s punk scene and the Lower East Side are VR experience, the breakthrough discovery of This venue houses the New The VR Bar at Music Café is their playground. This coming-of-age narrative gravitational waves transforms how we see the Frontier VR Mobile Programs. where you can experience a explores identity through animation and immersive universe. Fall into the darkness, and you will find Tickets are required and are selection of the official New environments as Lupe’s handwritten journals guide the light. available during individual Frontier Mobile VR Program, users through her year. New Frontier at The Ray ticket sales (online and at plus hot, late-breaking VR New Frontier at The Ray main box offices). content created by some of eWaitlist also available the most exciting companies WOLVES IN THE WALLS in the field—plus hosted CHORUS (CHAPTER 1) Friday, January 19– cocktails! Open to Crystals, lasers, monsters, heroines. Transform All is not as it seems when eight-year-old Lucy’s Saturday, January 27 credential holders into fantastical female warriors in this social virtual imagination proves to be reality. Help her discover Friday, January 19 reality experience. Six people can band together to what’s hiding inside the walls of her house in 8:00–9:30 p.m. battle evil in this epic journey of empowerment, all this immersive fable, based on the work by Neil Hosted by Oculus orchestrated to the song “Chorus” by Justice. Gaiman and Dave McKean and choreographed by Saturday, January 20 New Frontier at The Ray acclaimed theatre company Third Rail Projects. 8:30–10:30 p.m. New Frontier at The Ray Hosted by Comcast Ventures DICKGIRL 3D(X) Sunday, January 21 DICKGIRL 3D(X) is the non-binary version of EVA ZIKR: A SUFI REVIVAL 9:30–10:30 p.m. v3.0, an avatar purchased online and appropriated English and Arabic Hosted by Dell by the artist. Through DICKGIRL 3D(X), the viewer This interactive social VR experience uses song becomes a post-human pleasure seeker in an Monday, January 22 and dance to transport four participants into encounter with a submissive, clay-like sculpture. 8:30–10:30 p.m. ecstatic Sufi rituals while also exploring the Hosted by Intel New Frontier at Kimball Art Center motivations behind followers of this mystical Thursday, January 25 Islamic tradition still observed by millions 8:30–10:30 p.m. SPACE EXPLORERS: A NEW DAWN around the world. Experience the journey of NASA astronauts New Frontier at Kimball Art Center as they navigate the trials and sacrifices of their training and missions. An immersive VR experience that shines a light on mankind’s most ambitious endeavor to understand our planet, our universe, and our origins. New Frontier at The Ray New Frontier at Kimball Art Center

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ISLE OF DOGS BEHIND THE MASTERS OF THE SUN THE SUMMATION OF FORCE SCENES (IN VIRTUAL REALITY) In 1983, Los Angeles was spared from utter In a moonlit suburban yard, two brothers battle This virtual reality experience places the viewer destruction driven by an ancient evil. The ghetto one another in a mythic game of cricket. A study inside the miniature world of ’s became ground zero for a drug epidemic that of the motion, physics, and psychology of elite upcoming stop-motion animated film, face-to-face transformed citizens into soul-sucking zombies sport; a cosmic, dreamlike, and darkly beautiful with the cast of dogs as they are interviewed on through Z-Drops, until a ragtag crew used one metaphor for life. set while the crew of the film works around you weapon to take their city back: hip-hop. to create the animation you are seeing. Fri. 1/19, 7:00 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC ON MY WAY Sun. 1/21, 7:00 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC In a Tesla, multiple Yung Jakes rap about money, DINNER PARTY Wed. 1/24, 1:00 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC cars, drugs, and things of that nature, among A short virtual reality thriller that dramatizes the Sat. 1/27, 10:30 a.m., The Box at The Ray, PC interactive elements. incredible story of Betty and Barney Hill, who in the 1960s reported the first nationally known UFO MICRO GIANTS abduction case in America. VR MOBILE PROGRAM 3 A computer-generated VR experience that gives an unprecedented and highly engaging perspective EYES IN THE RED WIND DISPATCH of insect life. When you enter into the micro world, Friends and family members gather to throw A small-town police dispatcher faces the tiny flowers and insects in normal life now become a “soul scooping” ritual to pacify the soul of a greatest challenge of his career during an mighty trees and beasts. drowned man. A possessed shaman reveals the all-night crime spree. murderous truth behind the death, and lust and YOUR SPIRITUAL TEMPLE SUCKS secrets come to the fore. Sun. 1/21, 3:00 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC Mon. 1/22, 3:00 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC English and Mandarin with English subtitles Thu. 1/25, 7:30 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC Mr. Chang arrives at his “Spiritual Temple,” a place THE SUN LADIES VR Fri. 1/26, 1:00 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC that represents one’s destiny. To solve his marital An in-depth look at the personal journey of Xate Sat. 1/27 1:30 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC crisis and financial problems, he summons his Shingali: from her roots as a famous singer in guardian—The Thunder God. They attempt to tidy Kurdistan, through ISIS sex slavery, and to her his life, which turns out to be a big mistake … with new life as a soldier on the front lines as she starts hilarious consequences. a female-only Iraqi fighting unit called the Sun Ladies. Sat. 1/20, 7:00 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC Mon. 1/22, 7:00 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC Fri. 1/19, 3:00 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC Wed. 1/24, 7:30 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC Tue. 1/23, 3:00 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC Fri. 1/26, 5:00 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC Wed. 1/24, 5:00 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC Sat. 1/27, 4:30 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC Thu. 1/25, 5:00 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC Fri. 1/26, 7:30 p.m., The Box at The Ray, PC

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POWER OF STORY PANELS POWER OF STORY: CINEMA CAFÉ THE NEW CLIMATE BRAVE NEW STORY CULTURE SHIFT #CinemaCafe #NewClimate #BraveNewStory #PowerOfStory Friday, January 19–Saturday, January 27 • 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 23 • 2:30-4:00 p.m. Saturday, January 20 • 2:15–3:45 p.m. Friday, January 19 • noon–1:30 p.m. Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St., second floor Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St. Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St., second floor Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St. Cinema Café is open to all Festival credential holders and the general Ticket Required Ticket Required public as space allows. Please check the online program guide at As our society finds itself in increasingly sundance.org/program for panelist listings. The impact of climate change has been felt entrenched positions, the relevance of radical At a watershed moment in which America dramatically by Native communities in the storytelling can’t be overstated. Recognizing grapples with gender, race, and the complex Strange things are afoot at Cinema Café. U.S. and around the world. Despite poisoned the power of art to reveal, artists are searching nature of systemic change, an illustrious group Each morning at 11:30 a.m. in the Filmmaker resources, corporatism, and an existential for new stories and new ways of telling of artists talk with Washington Post journalist Lodge, Cinema Café invigorates the culture of threat to their homelands, these vulnerable them. They’re demanding more of the form, Sarah Ellison about their work, the power of conversation. Our daily series of informal chats communities rarely fall under the spotlight, questioning how it’s used to describe the media, and the role creative choices play in rounds up special guests for thought-provoking and their stories go untold. This special world, looking at images and representation, shifting culture and crystallizing the national discussions, complete with coffee and treats. New Climate discussion welcomes subverting dominant narratives and traditional conversation. How do storytellers transform We are proud to present several Cinema Café Anote Tong, former president of the ways of seeing, and discovering a new not only the arts and media fields but society discussions in collaboration with TimesTalks, disappearing islands of Kiribati; Tashka political cinema. Join Reinaldo Marcus Green at large? What’s at stake in terms of the stories streaming engaging discussions with Festival Yawanawá, chief of the Yawanawá; moderator (Monsters and Men), RaMell Ross (Hale County we tell and who tells them, and how will these filmmakers andNew York Times journalists. Janaya Khan of Black Lives Matter, Canada; This Morning, This Evening), Brett Story decisions shape our future? Sometimes, the most fascinating are the ones and others to deconstruct histories and (The Prison in Twelve Landscapes), Lynette you didn’t expect. Cinema Café guests have mythologies around climate change, discuss Wallworth (Awavena), and others. Check included Steve Coogan, Roger Corman, Julie how story and technology can share a hidden sundance.org for up-to-date information. ART OF FILM POWER OF STORY: WEEKEND Delpy, Dave Grohl, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Barbara point of view, and reveal creative initiatives to combat current trends by changing minds. INDIES GO HOLLYWOOD Kopple, Spike Lee, Parker Posey, Samantha Check sundance.org for up-to-date information. #PowerOfStory Power, Ice-T, and many more. So bring your NEW REFLECT: PORTRAIT FRONTIER #ArtFilmWeekend questions and an open mind. Friday, January 26 • 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. OF AI AS A YOUNG MAN Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St. ADAPTATION #NewFrontier Ticket Required Sunday, January 21 • noon–1:30 p.m. #StoryAdaptation The Box at The Ray, 1780 Park Ave. Friday, January 19 • 2:30–4:00 p.m. Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Thor: Ragnarok. Twilight. Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St., second floor Fast & Furious. A Wrinkle in Time. Pete’s Dragon. Is the age of AI filmmaking upon us? Moderator Chomsky vs. Chomsky, Do The directors of many prominent studio films Whether it be a beloved novel, a work of Sandra Rodriguez ( Not Track got their start at the Sundance Film Festival. nonfiction, or even a story from somebody’s ), musician and tech entrepreneur Masters of the Sun From having shoestring-budget movies on the life, the adaptation from original source will.i.am ( ), writer/director TendAR, PRY fest circuit and DIY outlooks to being handed material to a feature film is a huge undertaking, Samantha Gorman ( ), and Frankenstein AI: big-budget, big-responsibility franchises, working with many creative decisions lying in the hands strategist Rachel Ginsberg ( A Monster Made by Many with A-list actors, and garnering mainstream of the adapter. Learn how writers approach ) look under the hood exposure—what does taking this kind of career this process and how they’ve transformed an of this frequently misunderstood technology leap mean to them creatively, professionally, original work into a new creative piece. to see how storytellers can use artificial and personally? A contingent of filmmakers who Check sundance.org for up-to-date information. intelligence to enhance or reinvent their own straddle both worlds discuss what motivates creative process. them to work at this new level and how they view both the advantages and myriad challenges.

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PANELS NEW FRESH FACES WONDER: RE-IMAGINING FRONTIER THE FUTURE OF INDIE TV THIS IS NOT A PANEL #SFFFreshFaces OUR RELATIONSHIP TO SPACE #IndieTVFuture #NotAPanel Sunday, January 21 • 2:15–3:30 p.m. #NewFrontier Wednesday, January 24 • 2:00–3:30 p.m. Thursday, January 25 • 2:00–3:30 p.m. Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St., second floor Tuesday, January 23 • noon–1:30 p.m. Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St., second floor Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St., second floor The Box at The Ray, 1780 Park Ave. This year’s Festival films feature a number of As the world of serialized content widens from In what has become a tradition at the Festival, genuinely exciting young talents—fresh faces As humans race to reach Mars, these traditional broadcast and cable television to this year’s non-panel panel features Josephine who have already begun to receive attention works explore the cosmos inside of us. streaming platforms, the way we consume Decker (Madeline’s Madeline), Jim Hosking and acclaim for their remarkable work. They Cory McAbee’s one-man show, Deep content is changing rapidly. Where do (An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn, Tropical represent a new generation of actors, fulfilling a Astronomy and the Romantic Sciences, independent voices fit into this increasingly Cop Tales), Crystal Moselle (Skate Kitchen), longtime promise of independent film: to bring interrogates humankind’s ongoing love competitive industry? There is more demand and Boots Riley (Sorry to Bother You). Each rich, complex characters to life through stories. affair with space, Eliza McNitt’s VR piece, than ever for different forms of episodic filmmaker was tasked with the following Join Dominique Fishback (Night Comes On), SPHERES: Songs of Spacetime, transports content, but how do artists and investors find mission: to share objects, stories, or any Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Monster; Monsters and viewers to two black holes that are their audience and make a return on their sensory representation that has influenced their Men), Hari Nef (Assassination Nation), and colliding, and Johann Lurf’s film, called★ , investment? Join Stephanie Allain (Leimert work and helped shape their vision as artists. Rachelle Vinberg (Skate Kitchen). Check lovingly chronicles images of the night sky. Park), Steven Soderbergh (THE KING), Needless to say, unpredictable inspiration and sundance.org for up-to-date information Designer David Delgado, of NASA’s Bernie Su (chief creative officer, Canvas Media surprises can be expected. Jet Propulsion Lab, will moderate. Studios), David Wain (A Futile and Stupid Gesture) and others in conversation about the NEW WAYS OF SEEING current state of independent television and BUILD: THE ARCHITECTURE FRONTIER ART OF FILM WEEKEND #WaysOfSeeingStory what the opportunities are for the future. #ArtFilmWeekend OF VR NARRATIVE Check sundance.org for up-to-date information. #NewFrontier Tuesday, January 23 • 2:00–3:30 p.m. Friday, January 26–Saturday, January 27 • 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Monday, January 22 • noon–2:00 p.m. Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St., second floor Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St., second floor The Box at The Ray, 1780 Park Ave. NEW How we see science and its place in our PLAY: FRONTIER As part of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, Virtual reality technology drops viewers inside world has a lot to do with who we see doing A WORLD-BUILDING WORKSHOP we are bringing back Art of Film Weekend, the story—literally. So how does VR affect the it and what’s being done. The images and #NewFrontier a two-day (Friday, January 26–Saturday, standard, three-act structure? Maureen Fan representations we engage with through Thursday, January 25 • 1:00–3:00 p.m. January 27) program of activities that brings (Invasion!, Asteroids!) will ask writer popular culture spark our imagination, inform The Box at The Ray, 1780 Park Ave. together an unprecedented array of artists Charlotte Stoudt (Dinner Party, Homeland), our values, and shape our understanding of to celebrate the art and craft of filmmaking. scientists, their work, technology, the natural If you could create a city from scratch, writer/director Edward Robles (Dispatch, Exploring cinema, body and soul, we go world, and the cosmos. So it bodes well that what would you include? An all-star group Clouds Over Sidra), animator Bruna Berford behind the scenes to look at the creative, storytellers are exploring different ways of of creative talent, including Lance Weiler (Arden’s Wake, HENRY), and content strategist collaborative spirit of artists at every stage of seeing, bending those perceptions through (Frankenstein AI: A Monster Made by Many) Diana Williams (Star Wars universe, Carne the process: writers, directors, producers, actors, fresh stories and innovative approaches to and John Hsu (Your Spiritual Temple Sucks), y Arena) to share their strategies for telling cinematographers, editors, production designers, narrative, style, and performance. will collaborate with the audience to envision narratives in 360-degree environments. art directors, costume designers, casting Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation a city of the future. Afterward, panelists will directors, sound designers, composers, and the discuss this feat of group stagecraft, plus countless others who create movie magic. share their own methods for inventing believable storyworlds.

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PANELS HOSTED PRESENTATIONS ART OF FILM ART OF FILM CREATIVE TENSIONS: IDENTITY WEEKEND PRODUCER’S CONFIDENTIAL WEEKEND FILM CHURCH FILM, CODE, AND CRAFT: #ArtFilmWeekend #ArtFilmWeekend #FilmChurch THE TECH THAT’S PUSHING #CreativeTensions #CreativeProducers Sunday, January 28 • 10:30 A.m.–Noon STORIES FORWARD Friday, January 26 • 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Friday, January 26 • 2:00–3:30 p.m. Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St., second floor The Shop, 1167 Woodside Ave. ClaimJumper, 573 Main St., third floor Friday, January 19 • noon–1:30 p.m. What could be more divine than 10 days of ClaimJumper, 573 Main St., third floor Protagonists: Effie Brown and TBD In today’s challenging marketplace, creative film watching? Finish off your Sundance Film Moderated by Christopher Hibma, Theatre Program producers are well served by an expansive Festival experience by sharing a near-spiritual From virtual cameras to collaborative knowledge of audience building, marketing, moment with Festival director John Cooper storyboards, creators are using new modes This is not your typical panel. Join us for Creative and distribution strategy. With Columbus and and director of programming Trevor Groth, of filmmaking to push the boundaries of their Tensions: IDENTITY as we explore what we may Unrest, recipients of Sundance Institute’s who will offer non-denominational talks of own storytelling—with the help of an ever- be afraid to talk about. In a world where polemics inaugural Creative Distribution Fellowship, we the Festival that was. Come confess your likes expanding toolbelt. Join Vimeo’s head of are the norm and binaries form our views of examine two films that emerged from the 2017 and dislikes. Joining us for the sermon will Creator Labs, Casey Pugh; Unity’s head of others, how do we talk about the shades of gray? Sundance Film Festival and chose to bypass all- be a variety of special guests, including a few cinematics, Adam Myhill; moderator Isabelle From our politics to the stories we create (or are rights distributors. Danielle Renfrew Behrens, filmmakers who took home awards the night Riva, head of Made with Unity; and a group allowed to create), what do we lose or gain by Jennifer Brea, Giulia Caruso, Lindsey Dryden, before (if they can be found the morning after!). of filmmakers as we explore emerging becoming a tribe of tribes? An innovative event Alysa Nahmias, and moderator Chris Horton All will be forgiven. technologies and how you can use them to concept created by ​​Sundance Institute’s Theatre (Sundance Institute) present case studies on make your next film. Program, Creative Tensions is a collective getting your work seen. Presented by Vimeo conversation expressed in movement, wherein participants reveal where they stand on an issue by virtue of where they stand in the room. ART OF FILM THE ART OF THE EDIT— UNEARTHING THE PAST WEEKEND INSIGHTS FROM THE FRONT LINES #ArtFilmWeekend A continental breakfast will be served at Saturday, January 27 • 2:00–3:30 p.m. Friday, January 19 • 3:00–4:30 p.m. 11:00 a.m. This event is presented by the Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St., second floor ClaimJumper, 573 Main St., third floor Sundance Institute Theatre Program and Sundance Ignite in partnership with IDEO, Nonfiction filmmakers are employing Join a lively discussion with master editors a global design company creating positive increasingly innovative approaches in order and post-production pros—working across impact through design. Check sundance.org to visually and artfully engage with the past. genres from blockbuster and independent for up-to-date information. Through creative uses of archival footage, film to episodic television—as they share their personal- and biographical-storytelling latest insights on how to take the art and craft filmmakers are excavating the past in order of editing to the next level. Learn as these to re-contextualize the present and interrogate accomplished editors discuss the relationship notions of truth. Check sundance.org for between editors and directors, the role editing up-to-date information. plays in storytelling, and how technology helps bring their creative vision to life. Presented by Adobe

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HOSTED PRESENTATIONS

NEW BLACKHOUSE FILMMAKER HOW TO GET YOUR FILM DOCS ON PBS—DISTRIBUTION 360º IMAGINING WORK IN AN FRONTIER LODGE PANEL OUT THERE—THE DIGITAL Saturday, January 20 • 4:30–6:00 p.m. AI-INTEGRATED FUTURE Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St., second floor Friday, January 19 • 4:30–6:00 p.m. EXPERTS WEIGH IN Sunday, January 21 Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St., second floor Saturday, January 20 • 3:00–4:30 p.m. 11:00 a.m.: ​Exhibition of ​residency story ​prototypes ClaimJumper, 573 Main St., third floor You’ve devoted five years of your life to making Noon: Discussion​ ​ Blackhouse returns to the Filmmaker Lodge your film—now what? PBS and WNET talk The Dell Den, 528 Main St. with challenging and engaging conversation YouTube and TheWrap team up to explore the with acclaimed filmmakers about the evolving about the most essential elements and players changing landscape of independent film. These distribution landscape. With more choices Emerging technologies are fundamentally within black entertainment and media—film, days, all you need is a smartphone and the than ever, what is the right way forward? changing the nature of work. How do we ensure television, digital, and VR. determination to make a movie, but formats Public media offers expanding avenues for it will result in a human-centered future? Can Presented by The Blackhouse Foundation are changing as fast as the platforms that show distribution and a network of local stations and we design these surplus technologies to further them. Join moderator Sharon Waxman, CEO and opportunities to attract new audiences. In a an equitable future? Artists and technologists editor in chief of TheWrap, as she taps into the candid conversation, filmmakers discuss their from Sundance Institute’s New Frontier World experiences, festival releases, and the path that THE JOURNEY TO SPACE: expertise of filmmakers, talent, and executives on Building Residency share their experience of led them to partner with PBS. wrestling with these questions as they built A VR PERSPECTIVE—IN how best to make, sell, and distribute film in the digital age. Panelists to be announced. Presented by PBS and WNET New York Public Media a vision of the future of work in Los Angeles CONVERSATION WITH NASA Presented by YouTube 2037. Panelists include Alex McDowell AND FELIX & PAUL STUDIOS MASS INCARCERATION: (Minority Report, World Building Institute), Tony Patrick (Batman and the Signal), Saturday, January 20 • noon–1:30 p.m. AN ANIMATED STORY ClaimJumper, 573 Main St., third floor Grace Lee (American Revolutionary), Lauren Saturday, January 20 • 6:00–7:30 p.m. McCarthy (LAUREN, p5.js), Dr. Danny Lange Emmy-winning Felix & Paul Studios will be ClaimJumper, 573 Main St., third floor (vice president of AI and machine learning, premiering their latest VR film, Space Explorers: Unity Technologies), and Brian Reaves A New Dawn, at the Sundance Film Festival. Imprisonment is a brutal and costly response (chief diversity and inclusion officer, Dell). Hear director Félix Lajeunesse and NASA to crime that traumatizes incarcerated people, The panel will be moderated by astronaut Jessica Meir talk about the making their families, and communities. Lavette Victor W. Hwang (vice president of of this groundbreaking virtual reality experience. Mayes, Jason Hernandez, and Johnny Perez entrepreneurship, Kauffman Foundation). The panel will also discuss the collaboration know all too well how devastating and Presented by Dell and the Ewing Marion with NASA and the use of VR technology life-changing incarceration is. Watch the Kauffman Foundation to capture the essence of an astronaut’s premiere of three animated films that expose preparation to go to space. America’s broken criminal justice system Presented by Comcast Ventures through their eyes, followed by a discussion in which they will share more about their journeys and why we must end mass incarceration. Presented by the ACLU Campaign for Smart Justice

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HOSTED PRESENTATIONS BEYOND BORDERS: CREATIVE SOUND FOR VR THE PEOPLE: THE IMPORTANCE THE NEW YORK TIMES ASIAN AMERICANS INDEPENDENT FILM OF OPEN ACCESS TO TOOLS FOR ON RACE, SEX, AND POWER: AND THE IMMIGRANT VOICE Sunday, January 21 • 3:00–4:30 p.m. CREATORS AND PUBLISHERS WHO CONTROLS THE STORY? ClaimJumper, 573 Main St., third floor Sunday, January 21 • noon–1:30 p.m. Monday, January 22 • noon–1:30 p.m. Monday, January 22 • 2:45–4:00 p.m. ClaimJumper, 573 Main St., third floor ClaimJumper, 573 Main St., third floor The Shop, 1167 Woodside Ave. Great sound work isn’t just limited to Asian American artists discuss the unique big-budget Hollywood blockbusters. Join Technology is often viewed as a barrier to Many of our culture’s foundational stories challenges and opportunities of building and the filmmakers behindBlindspotting and immersive storytelling. Instead, it can be used to have historically been controlled by white sustaining careers as immigrant filmmakers. I Think We’re Alone Now as they show clips enhance, amplify, and simplify the creative process. men. Now that women and people of color are From unique access to communities and their and talk about how sound and music help Join Mozilla, Nonny de la Peña, and a panel of stepping up to both tell their own stories and stories to the burdens of representing new them tell their stories. Panelists will include artists and creators as we explore how technology take the reins of distribution, what does the viewpoints in a rapidly changing cultural Carlos López Estrada (director, Blindspotting) can be used to push the limits of storytelling. future hold for media and society? Join New landscape and filmmaking industry, join us for and Reed Morano (director, I Think We’re Presented by Mozilla York Times reporter Jodi Kantor, who broke this relevant and dynamic conversation about Alone Now), moderated by Glenn Kiser, the Harvey Weinstein story; New York Times what it means to be an immigrant filmmaker director of the Dolby Institute. opinion columnist Charles Blow; and Sundance today and in the future. Presented by Dolby Laboratories, Inc. SPECIAL SCREENING & filmmakers in a conversation moderated by Presented by the Center for Asian American PANEL WITH CANON U.S.A. New York Times: Op-Docs executive producer Media (CAAM) Kathleen Lingo. BEHIND THE CAMERA: Monday, January 22 • 3:00–4:30 p.m. Presented by the New York Times WHERE DIVERSITY BEGINS ClaimJumper, 573 Main St., third floor BMI ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Sunday, January 21 • 4:30–6:00 p.m. From the 5D revolution to the C700, Canon SLATE CULTURE GABFEST MUSIC AND FILM, ’S Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St., second floor has long been a staple in the indie world, AND REPRESENT LIVE THE CREATIVE PROCESS supporting filmmakers every step of the way. The recent Storytelling Unbound research Tuesday, January 23 • 4:30–6:00 p.m. Sunday, January 21 • 2:00–4:00 p.m. Join Canon U.S.A. for a special screening from Univision Communications shows that Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St. The Shop, 1167 Woodside Ave. and a conversation with a celebrated the need for more inclusive entertainment is cinematographer who will discuss the future Slate, with support from Dropbox, hosts a What goes into creating a successful film score? a top-five concern for young audiences today. of filmmaking and today’s game-changing tools And one way to increase diversity in front that help artists explore their craft. special live show featuring Aisha Harris from What makes for an effective director-composer Represent and Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, relationship? In addition to Sundance Institute of the camera is to hire diversity behind it. Presented by Canon In this panel, moderated by Fusion TV’s and Dana Stevens from Culture Gabfest, Slate’s Composer Lab advisors, we partner filmmakers popular culture podcasts, for a fun and witty with the composers they work with to answer Kimberly Brooks, we’ll hear from content creators on what practices are helping conversation on the latest culture news and these and other questions in this inspired happenings. In addition to their signature banter, roundtable discussion moderated by storytelling keep up with the changing tastes of America and setting the industry up for future fans. they will be joined on stage with some of the Doreen Ringer Ross, BMI vice president of Presented by Univision Communications Inc. / leading creators at the Festival to discuss their film, TV, and visual media relations. Participants Fusion Media Group work and how they fuel their creative energy. will include director of the Sundance Institute Presented by Dropbox Film Music Program Peter Golub. Presented by BMI

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HOSTED PRESENTATIONS MUSIC EVENTS THE EXPANDED VR LANDSCAPE: THE GENETICS OF STORYTELLING BMI SNOWBALL OCULUS AND PARTNERS ON Friday, January 26 • 4:30–6:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 23 THE FUTURE OF STORYTELLING Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St. Doors: 7:30 p.m., Show: 8:00–10:00 p.m. The Shop, 1167 Woodside Ave. Wednesday, January 24 • 3:00–4:30 p.m. The story may live in us, but if we can’t tell our This showcase is open to all credential holders as space permits. ClaimJumper, 573 Main St., third floor stories well, what difference will they make? From music to documentary to illustrative VR, When it comes to DNA, ancestry, and genetic BMI invites you to the 16th annual Snowball creators are pushing boundaries for what’s science, this is where art and science can Music Showcase. This showcase is an intimate possible. Hear from some of the leading creators converge. Join Geralyn Dreyfous, co-founder night of music featuring a phenomenal mixture to hear how they are each approaching this of Impact Partners and GameChanger Films, of emerging and iconic artists. Memorable evolution and what to expect in 2018. as she moderates a conversation between past performances have included Christina Presented by Oculus two Sundance filmmakers, three of Utah’s top Perri, Donovan, Rodriguez, Death Cab genetic scientists, and Utah’s own Ancestry.com for Cutie, Devo, Allen Stone, K.T. Tunstall, as they come together to unpack the question: THE COLOR Robert Randolph, Dawes, Dan Penn, Terence How can artists and scientists work more Blanchard, Keb’ Mo’, Minnie Driver, and Rock OF CHANGE SPOTLIGHT: closely together to more broadly communicate & Roll Hall of Famers Percy Sledge and Spooner INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING the amazing advances in human understanding? Oldham, among others. This showcase is open Presented by University of Utah Health to all credential holders 21 and up as space Wednesday, January 24 • 4:30–6:00 p.m. Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St., second floor permits. Check sundance.org for this year’s lineup details. Groundbreaking storytellers and artists discuss their recent projects and the importance of inclusive storytelling and A CELEBRATION OF MUSIC staffing. This conversation will look closely at AND FILM— the creative process from beginning to end and AN EVENING WITH JOAN JETT will discuss why and how diversity is critical. Presented by Color Of Change Saturday, January 20 • 7:00–10:00 p.m. The Shop, 1167 Woodside Ave. As one of the first women to play hard rock, this annual Festival-favorite event celebrates the documentary Bad Reputation and its iconic subject, Joan Jett. From day one, Jett stuck to her guns, did things her way, and thoroughly embarrassed anyone who dared to say girls couldn’t rock hard. Programmed annually by the Sundance Institute Film Music Program. Festival Credential holders 21 and up receive limited access to this event on a space-available basis.

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SUNDANCE ASCAP MUSIC CAFÉ NOW HEAR THIS! MONDAY, JANUARY 22 2:00–2:30 p.m., TBA Can you imagine the movies without music? 2:45–3:15 p.m., Shawn James Neither can we, and that’s why ASCAP is proud 3:30–4:00 p.m., TBA to continue the legacy of the Sundance ASCAP 4:15–4:45 p.m., Dark Rooms Music Café. For 20 years running, we’ve 5:00–5:30 p.m., TBA hosted intimate performances by our favorite songwriters and artists, right in the heart of the Sundance Film Festival. Come visit us to TUESDAY, JANUARY 23 find your new favorite music or the perfect 2:00–2:30 p.m., TBA collaborator for your next project. Brought 2:45–3:15 p.m., Shawn James to you by your friends at ASCAP—home to 3:30–4:00 p.m., Elliot Root more than 640,000 of the world’s greatest 4:15–4:45 p.m., Brett Dennen songwriters, composers, and music publishers. 5:00–5:30 p.m., TBA

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24 2:00–2:30 p.m., TBA 2:00–2:30 p.m., Elliot Root 2:45–3:15 p.m., TBA 2:45–3:15 p.m., Ruelle 3:30–4:00 p.m., Striking Matches 3:30–4:00 p.m., Mr Hudson 4:15–4:45 p.m., TBA 4:15–4:45 p.m., Brett Dennen 5:00–5:30 p.m., TBA 5:00–5:30 p.m., TBA

SATURDAY, JANUARY 20 THURSDAY, JANUARY 25 2:00–2:30 p.m., Striking Matches 2:00–2:30 p.m., Crys Matthews 2:45–3:15 p.m., Madison Cunningham 2:45–3:15 p.m., Mr Hudson 3:30–4:00 p.m., TBA 3:30–5:00 p.m., CMA Songwriters Series 4:15–4:45 p.m., Ethan Gruska 5:15–6:00 p.m., Michael Franti 5:00–5:30 p.m., TBA FRIDAY, JANUARY 26 SUNDAY, JANUARY 21 2:00–2:30 p.m., TBA 2:00–2:30 p.m., TBA 2:45–4:15 p.m., CMA Songwriters Series 2:45–3:15 p.m., Madison Cunningham 4:30–5:15 p.m., Michael Franti 3:30–4:00 p.m., Ethan Gruska 5:15–6:00 p.m., TBA 4:15–4:45 p.m., Dark Rooms 5:00–5:30 p.m., TBA

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