The 2025 Sundance Film Festival kicked off in part with a screening of the documentary “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore,” beginning the 11-day event in Park City and Salt Lake City. Here's what festival organizers are looking forward to this year.
Sundance Day 1: Inside one of the first screenings, and the 6 ‘triple-threat’ filmmakers to ‘keep an eye on’Marlee Matlin shouted, “Oh, wow,” on the red carpet of the Eccles Theatre on Thursday, when she caught sight of Shoshannah Stern, a deaf actor like herself.
Matlin, who won her Oscar in 1986 for her first movie, “Children of a Lesser God,” has some recent experience in Park City — having served as a juror in 2023, the first year the festival returned after a two-year break because of the COVID-19 pandemic. After playing many characters — Stern’s documentary, made for PBS’ “American Masters” series, features a montage of many TV and movie roles Matlin played after “Children of a Lesser God” — Matlin said it’s a bit odd to watch a movie where she’s just herself.
Kim Yutani, the festival’s programming director, singled out six triple-threat filmmakers, who have directed, written and are starring in their films: James Sweeney in “Twinless”; Katarina Zhu in “Bunnylovr”; Eva Victor in “Sorry, Baby”; Pasqual Gutierrez in “Serious People”; Grace Glowicki in “Dead Lover”; and Cherien Dabis in “All That’s Left of You.”
Last year, Sundance Institute started a process to accept bids to find a new home for the festival when Park City’s contract expires after 2026. Three finalists remain in contention after months of vetting: Boulder, Colorado; Cincinnati; and a Utah bid, centering on Salt Lake City with a few events in Park City. A final decision is expected to be announced sometime this spring.
“We have filmmakers in our own festival, alumni, members of the industry, community and our Sundance staff who have lost homes or were displaced in the past weeks,” Hernandez said.
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