Sundance is coming down from the mountain. Every January for 36 years, the Sundance Film Festival has been staged in Park City, Utah, an affluent ski town 7,000 feet up in the Wasatch Range. But the coronavirus pandemic is forcing organizers to rethink Sundance. It will simultaneously be held in Park City and at least 20 other locales: Exploratory talks are underway with independent cinemas in California, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, New York, Michigan, Minnesota, Tennessee and Texas. Participating theaters will choose a “bespoke” selection of Sundance 2021 offerings that make sense for their community, Ms. Jackson said, augmenting those choices with complementary programming of their own.

Source: New York Times June 29, 2020 15:00 UTC