The Sundance Film Festival has long been a hub for showcasing diverse perspectives. And that didn’t change in 2021, despite the turbulent times. Though indie film fans couldn’t converge in Park City, Utah and the festival went mostly virtual, it boasted its largest audience ever, and the event remained as provocative as always.
The seven episodes illuminate varied voices from films screened at the festival, ranging from revered Latina trailblazers Rita Moreno and Sonia Manzano, to scientists and filmmakers coming together for the greater good of humanity. Another Cinema Café conversation features insights from two veteran actors turned directors, Rebecca Hall and Robin Wright, both showing their feature directorial debuts at the festival. Wright, whose performances have run the gamut from “The Princess Bride” to “Wonder Woman 1984,” actually had prior directing experience before helming “Land,” having directed 10 episodes of “House of Cards.” She calls that experience “mini cinema school.
In the “Best of Sundance Film Festival” Audible Original episode, director, screenwriter, and producer Scott Z. Burns breaks down his prescient film “Contagion,” whose origins were rooted in Burns’ interest in making a “global pandemic movie that was grounded in science.” In his research, Burns shares, all of the scientists he spoke to informed him that “it’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when” the next pandemic happens.
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