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The Sundance Film Festival is coming to Nashville's Belcourt Theatre this year as part of the festival's attempt to spread out across the country. Nashville was one of eight cities picked to feature a Sundance film, other cities including Ann Arbor, MI, Brookline, MA, Brooklyn, NY, Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, CA , Madison, WI, and San Francisco, CA. Read the official press release here.
A select film from the festival will be shown on January 28 at the Belcourt with the filmmaker in attendance to discuss the film with audience members after the showing. The film being shown has not yet been announced, but will be closer to the date of the showing. Tickets will be made available on December 11.
“The concept behind Sundance Film Festival U.S.A. is to ignite dialogue as people across the country engage in a collective film experience,” said Sundance Institute president and founder Robert Redford, in a statement. “We hope by speaking with artists about their work and experiencing the Festival as it is happening, audiences will be inspired to share opinions, discuss the key issues of our day and reflect on the role art plays in social change.”
Redford founded the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah in 1978, originally as a way to attract more filmmakers to Utah. Redford named the festival after his character in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The festival grew into the largest independent film festival in the United States and has produced popular and award-winning films such as Garden State, Super Troopers, Reservoir Dogs, Little Miss Sunshine, Clerks, Napoleon Dynamite, and The Blair Witch Project. The film festival has expanded and spawned the Sundance Institute, which helps get funding for indie filmmakers, as well as the Sundance Channel, which shows films from the festival.
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