The resilience of the Sundance Film Festival, which kicks off its 2025 edition later this week, is something of a miracle. The event has long served as the meeting ground for American independent film, a sector under particularly intense threat in the era of streaming pivots, financial consolidation, and production contraction. “The fact that independent artists and storytellers are still working in such a bold way and creating so much work—that there is this much for us to consider—feels almost counter-intuitive,” festival director Eugene Hernandez tells David Canfield for his look at the event’s hazy future, as it faces industry-wide headwinds and a possible move out of Park City, Utah. “At the heart of Sundance is this idea of discovering and being introduced to filmmakers you might not otherwise know.”
Elsewhere in HWD, Savannah Walsh catches up with Robert Pattinson ahead of Mickey 17, his new film directed by Bong Joon Ho; Karen Valby thinks you should watch Dave Chappelle’s radical SNL monologue; Joshua Rivera takes a long, strange trip through David Lynch’s filmography; and our friends at The New Yorker compile a selection of short films that have earned the Academy’s seal of approval. |
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