Sundance Film Festival is Coming to a City Near You!

That's right people. Just because you're unable to head out to Park City, Utah, doesn't mean you're out of luck to see any films from Sundance. For the first time for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, films will be screened in numerous other cities from January 19th-29th. For those of us in New York that are wondering if we were chosen, well, Brooklyn, New York is where you'll have to go. Here's the press release confirming the news, as well as the other cities and venues that will hold a screening after the break.

Park City, UT — For one night only, the 2012 Sundance Film Festival will extend beyond Utah to visit nine cities and theatres across the country. As part of Sundance Film Festival USA, on the second Thursday of the Festival (January 26), filmmakers will travel from the Festival in Utah to the nine cities, courtesy of Official Airline Sponsor Southwest Airlines. In each city, the filmmaker will introduce and screen their film and participate in a Q&A with the audience. An introduction video featuring highlights from the Festival will precede each screening. This will be the third year of the Sundance Film Festival USA initiative.
“Every year, our goal with the Sundance Film Festival is to make it an extraordinary event for those who attend, and with Sundance Film Festival USA, we’re bringing the Festival experience to independent film lovers nationwide,” said John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival. “In many cases, those audiences feel a connection to independent film because of the year-round work of their hometown theatres. Sundance Film Festival USA shows both our gratitude to these theatres for their contributions to the independent film community as well as our support and commitment to helping them grow their existing audiences.”
The cities and theatres participating are:
–Ann Arbor, MI – The Michigan Theatre, www.michtheater.org–Boston, MA – Coolidge Corner Theatre, www.coolidge.org–Brooklyn, NY – BAM, www.bam.org–Chicago, IL – Music Box Theatre, www.musicboxtheatre.com–Houston, TX – Sundance Cinemas Houston, www.sundancecinemas.com–Nashville, TN – Belcourt Theatre, www.belcourt.org–Orlando, FL – Enzian Theater, www.enzian.org–San Francisco, CA – Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, www.sundancecinemas.com–Tucson, AZ – The Loft, www.loftcinema.comTickets for each screening will be available through the theatre’s box office. The film that will screen at each theatre will be announced in December.
The Sundance Film FestivalSupported by the non-profit Sundance Institute, the Festival has introduced global audiences to some of the most ground-breaking films of the past two decades, including sex, lies, and videotape, Maria Full of Grace, The Cove, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, An Inconvenient Truth, Precious, Trouble the Water, and Napoleon Dynamite, and through its New Frontier initiative, has brought the cinematic works of media artists including Isaac Julian, Doug Aitken, Pierre Huyghe, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Matthew Barney. www.sundance.org/festivalSundance InstituteSundance Institute is a global nonprofit organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981. Through its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, composers and playwrights, the Institute seeks to discover and support independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work. The Institute promotes independent storytelling to inform, inspire, and unite diverse populations around the globe. Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Born into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Son of Babylon, Amreeka, An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, I Am My Own Wife, Light in the Piazza and Angels in America. www.sundance.org