Sundance Provides Extra Movies to the 2023 Line-Up Together with John Carney
by Alex Billington
January 4, 2023
Supply: Sundance
Extra movies! There’s at all times extra to look at, extra to find, at the very best movie festivals. The 2023 Sundance Movie Competition has simply introduced a further 5 new movies enjoying on the competition this yr (comply with our protection). These 5 are additionally world premieres, and so they have secured a final minute spot as a result of they appear to be excessive profile premieres that Sundance desires to function on the competition. The 2 greatest new additions for 2023 are: Flora and Son, the newest musical function from acclaimed Irish filmmaker John Carney. His massive break was at Sundance approach again in 2007, the place he premiered the long-lasting movie As soon as earlier than happening to make Start Once more and Sing Avenue (one other musical favourite). The opposite is Previous Lives, the function debut from filmmaker Celine Track, which is already being described as Linklater meets early Sofia Coppola, about two sweethearts assembly up years later. Each of them are priorities on my Sundance schedule! Extra information beneath.
Here is the newest additions to the Sundance 2023 line-up – and go to Sundance.org for your entire choice.
U.S. Documentary Competitors:
Past Utopia / U.S.A. (Director: Madeleine Gavin, Producers: Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen, Sue Mi Terry) — Hidden digital camera footage augments this perilous high-stakes journey as we embed with households making an attempt to flee oppression, finally revealing a world most of us have by no means seen.
Premieres:
Earth Mama / U.S.A (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Savanah Leaf, Producers: Cody Ryder, Shirley O’Connor, Medb Riordan, Sam Bisbee) — A pregnant single mom with two kids in foster care embraces her Bay Space group as she fights to reclaim her household. Forged: Tia Nomore, Erika Alexander, Doechii, Sharon Duncan Brewster, Dominic Fike, Bokeem Woodbine.
Flora and Son / U.S.A, Eire (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: John Carney, Producers: Anthony Bregman, Peter Cron, Rebecca O’Flanagan, Robert Walpole) — Single mother Flora is at conflict along with her teenage son, petty thief Max. Inspired by the police to seek out Max a pastime, she rescues a beat-up guitar from a dumpster and finds that one particular person’s trash is usually a household’s salvation. Forged: Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Orén Kinlan, Jack Reynor.
Previous Lives / U.S.A (Director and Screenwriter: Celine Track, Producers: Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, David Hinojosa) — Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply related childhood associates, are wrest aside after Nora’s household emigrates from South Korea. 20 years later, they’re reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of future and love, and the alternatives that make a life. Forged: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro.
Particular Screenings:
Stephen Curry: Underrated / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Peter Nicks, Producers: Ryan Coogler, Erick Peyton) — Stephen Curry is without doubt one of the most influential, dynamic, and sudden gamers within the historical past of basketball. Intimate cinematic video, archival footage, and on-camera interviews reveal Curry’s rise from an undersized school participant to a four-time NBA champion.
Sundance can be internet hosting “Particular Encore Screenings” of few different favorites from latest years: CODA (Greatest Image winner!), Klondike (set in Ukraine), Navalny (doc about Russia), and Summer time of Soul (additionally an Academy Award winner). These can even play with a couple of different traditional “From the Vault” movies on the competition this yr. This compliments the different 99 movies introduced beforehand for 2023. “These 5 new movies spherical out our program in an thrilling and emotional approach. They’re cinematic experiences that delight, entertain, & preserve us on the sting of our seats. The works introduce us to new voices, together with administrators we’re excited to welcome again to the Competition,” mentioned Kim Yutani, Sundance Movie Competition Director of Programming. We’ll be watching these and lots of extra movies on the fest this yr. Carry on one other yr of Sundance. Sundance 2023 runs from January nineteenth to January twenty ninth, 2023. Go to Sundance.org for extra or keep tuned for updates.
