Sundance 2021 - Ep. 003 - 2/7/2021

Intro

1. Jockey - 4 1/2
2. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) - 4
3. Rebel Hearts - 4
4. Flee - 4
5. CODA - 4
6. Judas and the Black Messiah - 4
7. Land - 4
8. Together Together - 4 
9. Try Harder! - 4
10. Homeroom - 4
11. Mass - 4
12. Passing - 4
13. Wild Indian - 3 1/2
14. In the Same Breath - 3 1/2
15. Cusp - 3 1/2
16. Knocking - 3 1/2
17. Fire in the Mountains - 3 1/2
18. On the Count of Three - 3 1/2
19. Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir - 3 1/2
20. Life in a Day 2020 - 3 1/2
21. Users - 3 1/2
22. John and the Hole - 3
23. At the Ready - 3
24. I Was a Simply Man - 3
25. All Light, Everywhere - 3
26. Censor - 3
27. A Glitch in the Matrix - 2 1/2
28. Mayday - 2
29. Superior - 2

News

Events:

Episode Four - Judas and the Black Messiah - 2/12

Episode Five - Wolfwalkers - 2/19

Episode Six - Nomadland - 2/26

Episode Seven - Small Axe - 3/5

Episode Eight - Minari - 3/12

Episode Nine - Another Round - 3/19

US Dramatic Competition: Jockey, CODA, Together Together, Passing, Wild Indian, On the Count of Three, John and the Hole, I was a Simple Man, Mayday, and Superior

US Documentary Competition: Summer of Soul, Rebel Hearts, Try Harder!, Homeroom, Cusp, Users, At the Ready, and All Light, Everywhere

The Rest: Flee, Land, Judas and the Black Messiah, Mass, In the Same Breath, Knocking, Fire in the Mountains, Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, Life in a Day 2020, Censor, and A Glitch in the Matrix

Trivia:

1. Though this year’s festival was held remotely due to the pandemic, the Sundance Film Festival moved to its permanent home in what U.S. city in 1981?
2. In 1985, Joel and Ethan Coen made their directorial debut at Sundance when they won the Grand Jury prize for Best Dramatic film for what film?
3. What director got his start in 1992 at the festival with his crime thriller starring Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn, and Tim Roth?
4. This film made with a budget of just $400,000 premiered at the film festival and paid its main star a measly $1000. In the end, the film ended up grossing $46 million and became famous for its dance number performed to a Jamiroquai song.
5. Lucy Alibar received her first writing credit at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012 with the film “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” She has since been tasked with adapting what best-selling novel written by Delia Owens about an outcast woman surviving in the marshes of the deep south?