The Sundance Movie Competition can be online-only for the second 12 months in a row.
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The Sundance Movie Competition has been canceled in-person for the second 12 months in a row, organizers stated Wednesday.
Sundance, a high-profile impartial fest that kicks off the 12 months in motion pictures, was attributable to happen in Park Metropolis, Utah, from Jan. 20 to 30.
Whereas it would nonetheless go in a unique kind on-line, simply because it did in 2021, this 12 months’s large-scale gathering has been axed attributable to considerations over the Omicron variant.
“Whereas it's a deep loss to not have the in-person expertise in Utah, we don't consider it's protected nor possible to assemble hundreds of artists, audiences, workers, volunteers and companions from all over the world, for an eleven-day competition whereas overwhelmed communities are already struggling to offer important companies,” Sundance representatives stated in a press release.
Although the competition had taken many precautions akin to decreasing screening capability to 60%, mandating masks and booster pictures and requiring testing all through the 11 days, rising COVID instances in the US made it unfeasible to host, they stated.
It joins the Palm Springs Worldwide Movie Competition, the Grammy Awards and the Critics Selection Awards in both canceling or suspending huge comebacks.
The fortieth version of Sundance will nonetheless be viewable on its particular streaming platform and have movies by high-profile names, akin to Lena Dunham and Jesse Eisenberg and a four-hour documentary about Kanye West.
Solely as an alternative of getting an ovation on a stage, the celebrities will probably be filming Zoom “thanks”s from their houses. Once more.
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