The Sundance Festival will take place between January 20 and 30.
The Sundance Film Festival canceled all its face-to-face programming this Wednesday due to the rapid spread of the omicron variant in the United States, deciding to do all the premieres virtually.
The exhibition, which is held annually in Utah, western United States, had planned to work with a mixed format in its January 2022 edition, holding face-to-face events with sanitary measures, and virtual projections.
“Despite the most ambitious protocols, the omicron variant, with its unexpectedly high transmissibility, is challenging the limits of health security and travel, among others, in the United States”, organizers said in a statement.
“That is why we are announcing that the festival’s face-to-face events in Utah will take place virtually this year.”
Co-founded by the actor Robert Redford, Sundance projects the best of independent film, art and documentaries.
Among the films selected for this year are Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, a documentary that brings together more than twenty years of footage shot by Clarence “Coodie” Simmons, a longtime friend of Kanye West.
The Sundance Festival will take place between January 20 and 30. (E)
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