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10 Films to Feature in the NEXT category at Sundance Film Festival 2021

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The Sundance film festival 2021 features NEXT, a category presented by Adobe. This unites digital technology with the art of movie-making, with the promise of shaping a different future in the American cinema. Sundance 2021 features some pure and bold, innovative works in the NEXT category.



The Infiltrators, Searching, Skate Kitchen, A Ghost Story, and Tangerine, were some of the works presented in this category in the previous years.

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Sundance Institute presents the following films this year in the NEXT category.



Beast Beast / U.S.A.

Director and screenwriter: Danny Madden

Producers: Benjamin Wiessner, Matt Miller, Tara Ansley

Southern American town story of entwined stories of young love, guns, and identity crisis.



Black Bear / U.S.A.

Director and screenwriter: Lawrence Michael Levine

Producers: Julie Christeas, Jonathan Blitstein, Richard J Bosner, Aubrey Plaza, Lawrence Michael Levine, Sophia Takal

Blurring the lines that define various forms of arts, a filmmaker is trying to play a secret game.

I Carry You With Me / U.S.A., Mexico

Director: Heidi Ewing

Screenwriters: Heidi Ewing, Alan Page Arriaga

Producers: Mynette Louie, Heidi Ewing

An aspiring chef leaves everything behind to travel to New York, only to find out that his life will change altogether.

The Killing of Two Lovers / U.S.A.

The Killing of Two Lovers

Director and screenwriter: Robert Machoian

Producers: Scott Christopherson, Clayne Crawford, Robert Machoian

A couple going through a divorce, and trying to keep a family together, only to discover that the man cannot handle his wife’s new relationships.

La Leyenda Negra / U.S.A.

La Leyenda Negra

Director and screenwriter: Patricia Vidal Delgado

Producers: Alicia Herder, Marcel Perez

A teenager fighting to stay in the United States while striving to keep herself documented and risking everything, including her family and her first love.

The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me / U.S.A.

The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me

Director and screenwriter: Cedric Cheung-Lau

Producers: Alexandra Byer, Madeleine Askwith

A story of a Nepali man going to Dubai for work, only to be rerouted back to his homeland to see and discover things from a new perspective.

Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia / U.S.A.

Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia

Directors and Screenwriters: The Daniels, Hannah Fidell, Alexa Lim Haas, Lucas Leyva, Olivia Lloyd, Jillian Mayer, The Meza Brothers, Terence Nance, Brett Potter, Dylan Redford, Xander Robin, Julian Yuri Rodriguez, Celia Rowlson-Hall

Producers: Olivia Lloyd, Matthew Perniciaro, Michael Sherman, Taylor Shung

Miami adventure in a speed boat.

Some Kind of Heaven / U.S.A.

Some Kind of Heaven

Director: Lance Oppenheim

Producers: Darren Aronofsky, Kathleen Lingo, Melissa Oppenheim Lano, Pacho Velez, Jeffrey Soros, Simon Horsman

The Villages, the biggest retirement home facility in the United States, where residents are trying to find meaning and happiness for themselves.

Spree / U.S.A.

Spree

Director: Eugene Kotlyarenko

Screenwriters: Gene McHugh, Eugene Kotlyarenko

Producers: Matthew Budman, Sumaiya Kaveh, John Lang, Eugene Kotlyarenko

A story of a rideshare driver, whose deadly ideas of trying to get famous on social media go viral.

Summertime / U.S.A.

Summertime

Director: Carlos López Estrada

Screenwriters: Dave Harris, 27 Get Lit Poets

Producers: Kimberly Stuckwisch, Jeffrey Soros, Alisa Tager, Simon Horsman, Diane Luby Lane

25 Los Angeles young poets who come together to write and perform.

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