FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: January 16, 2020 Spencer Alcorn 310.360.1981
[email protected] Offscreen at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival: Panels, Music and Events Onstage: Ai Weiwei, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ron Howard, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Viggo Mortensen, Max Richter, Isabella Rossellini, Julie Taymor, Tessa Thompson, Rufus Wainwright, Carrie Mae Weems, Among Many Others Day One Press Conference Goes All-Digital Park City, UT — Sundance Institute will curate dozens of offscreen events, including behind-the-scenes panels on the art of filmmaking, musical performances and – around the theme of Imagined Futures – a public Bonfire and several extended post-screening conversations (known as IF Screenings), at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival taking place in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Sundance, Utah, January 23 through February 2, 2020. “Our offscreen programming provides a powerful cultural temperature check – it is an expression of what is preoccupying artists, both in terms of their own creativity, and also how that intersects with the issues of the day,” said John Nein, Sundance Film Festival Senior Programmer. “This year in addition to a slate of incredible performances, there is a real focus on civic engagement, data justice, disability as a creative force, and the role of art as an indispensable tool in the fight for truth telling and justice making. All of which ties perfectly into our theme of Imagined Futures.” To kick off the Festival, the Institute will evolve its Day One Press Conference into a content-rich digital Day One Press Kit, including video remarks from executive leadership as well as details about the Festival and the Institute’s global year round work; this package will be distributed via email on the morning of Day One (January 23, 2020).