The U.S. and Canadian experiences at the Sundance Film Festival tend to be vastly different affairs: Americans gaze into a mirror while Canucks look at the world outside their borders. As America’s premiere film fest, Sundance has a mandate to showcase and promote the work of U.S. filmmakers, primarily those in the independent realm. Dozens of other countries are invited to participate, Canada among them, but Sundance programmers are primarily interested in stories of the American experience at home and abroad. This is why, among the 110 features announced this week for Sundance 2018, running Jan. 18-28 in Park City, Utah, there’s a preponderance of movies about American legends and outlaws: actors Jane Fonda (Jane Fonda in Five Acts) and Robin Williams (Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind); children’s TV star Fred Rogers (Won’t You Be My Neighbor? ); rebel filmmaker Hal Ashby (Hal); and Animal House writer Doug Kenney (Futile and Stupid Gesture), to name just a few of the notables.

Source: thestar November 30, 2017 18:11 UTC