JBFC Invites You To The Sundance Festival

JBFC Invites You To The Sundance Festival: You can see all 134 films from 29 countries presented at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival courtesy of Pleasantville’s Jacob Burns Film Center which has been selected as one of the Festival’s Satellite Screens – and the New York area’s sole partner. Sundance’s first ever virtual festival will open on Thursday, January 28 and run through Wednesday, February 3 – but tickets go on sale today, January 7.

Each film will have a programmed premiere time followed by a live Q&A after the screening. The festival’s over 70 feature films will roll out in multiple premieres in three hour time slots from 10am to 10pm Mountain time for people who want to catch the live Q&A’s. All films will return to the platform two days after their premiere for a “second screening,” and will be offered on demand for 24 hours.

Sundance’s Short Film, Indie Series will also present 50 short films and world premieres of four episodic works. These will be available on demand on the Festival platform for the full length of the Festival. And its New Frontier program will showcase 14 additional works at the crossroads of film, art, and technology.

Some high profile films you can look forward to viewing include Land, Robin Wright’s directorial debut which she also stars in. Prisoners of the Ghostland, a crime thriller with Nicholas Cage from iconoclastic Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono (Antiporno, Why Don’t You Play in Hell?) Cage, who dons a skin tight black leather jumpsuit to save the Governor of Indiana’s daughter who has disappeared into a supernatural universe, calls this “the wildest movie he’s ever made.”

And drummer Questlove makes his directorial debut with Summer of Soul (…Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), a documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival that took place during the summer of 1969. Known as “the black Woodstock”, the festival featured performances by Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, the Staple Singers, B.B. King, and more.

Festival passes go for $350 and one-day passes go for $75. But you can buy a Single Film Ticket pass for as low as $15. Best value: The Award Winners pass (buy TODAY they are in limited supply) costs $100 and you get access to all 32 award-winning films in the program all in one pass. (Single Film Tickets won’t be available for award-winning films). Sundance’s Jury and Audience award winners will play on demand on February 3, when you will have all day and night to watch the Festival’s top picks.