The Sundance Institute, curator of the Sundance Film Festival, announced on Tuesday that all attendees will be required to get fully vaccinated at least two weeks prior to travelling to the festival. Masks will also be mandatory in both interior and outdoor spaces.
As announced in August, the 2022 edition of the festival will take place both in person and online from January 20 to January 30, 2022. Virtual screenings were introduced during the pandemic in 2021.
The institute has also partnered with seven satellite screens, independent arthouse theatres across the US that will screen the compact lineup of around 80 films. Each satellite screen will show selections from the festival’s official program during the closing weekend, January 28-30, 2022.
Meanwhile, the in-person screenings will be held at the Sundance Mountain Resort in addition to Park City. “Online premieres will follow the in-person premieres, using our custom-built online platform that was home to last year’s festival. Awards will be announced on Friday, January 28, leading to a final weekend of award-winner screenings in person and online,” Jackson had said in August.
The institute announced on Tuesday that tickets for the Sundance Festival 2022 will be made available from December 17 for the general public, and will range from $20 for individual buys to $750 in case of packages.
The 37th edition of the festival is yet to announce its final lineup of films.
Two Indian films, namely Ajitpal Singh’s Fire in the Mountains and Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s Writing with Fire, were screened at the 36th edition of the festival, and later entered for competition in the World Cinema Dramatic and World Cinema Documentary categories, respectively.
Writing with Fire won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Documentary category and the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award (Impact for Change).