Alisi Telengut is a Canadian artist of Mongolian origin. Telengut creates animation frame by frame under the camera, with painting as the medium, to generate movement and explore hand-made and painterly visuals for her films. She is a fine artist who happens to work in animation.
Her latest short film, The Fourfold has screened at various film festivals, including Sundance 2021.
Told entirely through social media and smartphone screens, this latest and bold adaptation of Romeo and Juliet reinvents one of the world’s most popular love story.
Mixing text messages and Shakespearean dialogue, R#J takes us into the love language of the 21st century, where GIFs, Spotify playlist exchanges, and Instagram profiles kindle romance and emphasize moments of vulnerability.
Sundance shorts alum Carey Williams (Emergency) sends us into an impressive vision on his debut feature, where technology powerfully unveils timelessness.
Composer for film and theatre, Jonathan Snipes, recently scored the Sundance 2021 horror documentary hybrid film A Glitch in the Matrix, directed by Rodney Ascher.
A Glitch in the Matrix takes audiences on a journey through science and philosophy to examine the theory that humans live in a simulation, and the world as people know it, is not real.
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Alejandro Mejía is a Mexican-born Cinematographer based in Brooklyn, New York. His work has screened at Sundance, Berlinale, Tribeca, Toronto, Rio de Janeiro, Oslo film Festival, among many others.
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After his grandmother’s death, Mendel, a Mexican biologist (Tenoch Huerta Mejía) living in New York returns to his hometown in Michoacán, Mexico – a place with forests where the majestic monarch butterfly species migrates South. Mendel’s journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his identity on a personal and spiritual level.
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Sundance is upon us once again. In this virtual world, I am looking to a break from my ‘day job’ work to partake in the festival atmosphere.
Below I share a list of films on my list so far. For those able to attend virtually, in the USA, I hope we can partake in the festival energy together even if remotely.
The lineup for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival also encompasses a curated program of free special events, conversations and activations available to the global public. These Talks and Events, presented on the Sundance platform, will include a new Opening Ceremony, Sundance Dailies, and The Big Conversation series, trademark gatherings at Cinema Café and the Power of Story, Awards Night and the concluding “It’s A Wrap” session.
Here are some highlights that will be available free to view globally. To access these events, you need to sign up for an account at Festival.Sundance.org. All times are US Mountain time.
