For years now, the Sundance Film Festival has taken to the road and to the UK to showcase the best of the fest and it looks like it will return in 2021. The dates for this year’s festival have been announced with proceedings taking place from 29 July to 1 August 2021 as an in-person event. This is the sixth year that Sundance London has taken place, though this year it is a little later than usual.
Sundance London 2021 will include upwards of 12 features, panel discussions, Q+As and special guest appearances. The Festival opens with the UK premiere of Edgar Wrightâs excellent debut documentary The Sparks Brothers, a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron and Russell Mael. In partnership with Universal, consecutive screenings of the film will take place in multiple cinemas across the UK with a filmmaker Q+A simultaneously broadcast from the glorious Picturehouse Central on 29 July 2021.
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival took place from 28 January to 3 February both online and in-person in 20 cities across America. The seven-day Festival reached a total audience 2.7 times larger than at the typical 11-day Utah edition. Audiences participated from all 50 states and 120 countries.
Due to the COVID pandemic, Sundance Film Festival: London was not able to take place in 2020. Picturehouse Cinemas collaborated with the Sundance Institute to host the digital Celebration of Sundance Film Festival: London which took place online for UK audiences from 7â9 August. Three feature films from Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, were presented – Allan Ballâs Uncle Frank; Luxor, directed by Zeina Durra; and Boys State, directed by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine and winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2020 Festival. Alongside which a programme of 8 short films were presented which highlighted some of filmmakingâs most original voices.
We’ll bring you the full line-up as it is announced.
