• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • About Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Us
  • Blog

Sundance Film Festival 2021

The Biggest Film Festival

  • Home
  • Book Tickets and Passes
  • How To Fest
  • Submit Your Project
  • Sundance Schedule
  • Volunteer at Sundance
  • Screenings

First Timer’s Complete Guide for 2021 Sundance Film Festival

first timer's Guide for 2020 Sundance Film Festival

Performing arts, especially storytelling and filmmaking, are the most vibrant methods of communicating an artist’s idea to the audience. Sundance Institute, a non-profit organization with international recognition, has been arranging film festivals since 1978. This platform invites independent artists, storytellers, filmmakers to submit their new, inspiring ideas and win a chance to present it on screen during the upcoming 2021 Sundance film festival.



Table of Contents

  • Sundance Film Festival Awards
  • Sundance Theater Locations
  • Get Your Sundance Tickets
  • Sundance Parking Access
  • Top Ten 2019 Sundance Films
  • Things to do in Sundance Utah
  • Sundance Film Festival Jobs
  • Park City Film Festival
  • City’s Festive Mood
Sundance film festival 2021 will be happening from January 23rd to February 2nd, 2021 in Utah

Sundance Film Festival Awards

sundance film festival awards

Films under the category of drama, short stories, documentaries, and series are staged every year during the festival. While documentaries and dramatic films are eligible for a variety of distinguished Sundance awards, the ingenious and original ideas of all filmmakers participating in the festival are highly appreciated. Winning stories from all four competitive film categories are presented with five audience awards under the NEXT category and a Festival Favorite Award.



Sundance Theater Locations

Every year park city, salt lake city and sundance mountain resort near Provo witnesses a huge and lively gathering. Multiple Sundance movie theaters are located in these cities. The audience is advised to buy the ticket from their nearest town. The map indicates the location of these theaters for the newcomers.

Sundance film festival invites people from around the globe to come and explore the cultural charm, arts, heritage and lively festive evenings. Thus this fest offers multiple Sundance season passes for diverse audiences to watch film screenings.

Get Your Sundance Tickets

Sundance Film Festival Tickets



Among different ticketing methods, there are season passes available for the audience as well. You can buy these passes if you want priority access to films. Ticket packages are a great way to enjoy your favorite show with family or friends, after purchasing packages you can choose your very own date and time for the shows. Packages and passes go on sale on October 18th before the festival program announcement. Individual tickets go on sale both online and offline on January 22nd. In case all screenings are sold out, the Ewaitlist ticketing system notifies the user about screening array lists two hours before a show. So, don’t lose hope because you might get a chance to watch your favorite film in the theater.

Sundance Parking Access

At salt lake city, parking areas are available at four locations close to theatres. There is no public parking space near theatres and venues in Park City, Ecker Hill Park and Richardson flat park offers free parking and free shuttle services to the theatres. Paid Sundance parking facility is also available near China Bridge. Sundance mountain resort provides complimentary parking for the festival attendees. Sundance Airport Parking offers parking space at the lowest rates and complimentary shuttle service.

Top Ten 2019 Sundance Films

Sundance film community is eagerly waiting for the next blockbuster films and documentaries for the year 2021. During 2019 top 10 most exciting and best sundance films reported were:

  • Clemency
  • One Child Nation
  • The Souvenir
  • Honeyland
  • Brittany Runs a Marathon
  • Knock Down the House
  • Queen of Hearts
  • Sea of Shadows
  • Apollo 11
  • By the light

From documentary, history, politics to drama 2019 sundance festival witnessed diverse genres of the best sundance movies.

Things to do in Sundance Utah

utah sundance film festival

When visiting festival do not miss out on the nightlife and finest dinings and restaurants in Sundance Utah. The most popular eateries with the best visitor’s reviews are Foundry Grill, The tree Room at Sundance, Owl bar and Kneaders Bakery-Orem.

Foundry Grill offers American and Vegan-friendly food, The tree Room at Sundance restaurant offers first-class Native American ambiance. It is known for serving delicious contemporary and American cuisines.

As Top-notch western bar with outdoor seatings available, Owl bar offers an inventive menu of creative cocktails, beer, and wine. Going out for a light snack, no need to look any further because Kneaders bakery-Orem has got you covered where fresh, and quality food is served.

Numerous Sundance events are arranged during the festival, this gives an opportunity for the visitors to explore a lot more this magnificent city has to offer. Starting from 11th Oct 2019 to 7th January 2021, a complete fun-filled and entertaining week awaits you.’

Sundance Film Festival Jobs

Sun dance film festival jobs 2020

Sundance started with 17 passionate and energetic artists and an ingenious idea. Now it is a huge community working to bring together artists from all walks of life. From establishing one of a kind labs to funding festivals and sponsoring new storytellers, Sundance Institute believes in providing job opportunities to the art aspirants. You can experience the Sundance culture by volunteering at the Sundance film festival.

Park City Film Festival

During the summer Park City film festival again lights up the city streets with the vast gatherings of inspiring filmmakers and audiences. The purpose of this cinematic art fest is to strengthen the unity between diverse independent artists and promote humanity through performing arts.

Besides the well trained independent filmmakers, Park city fest allows novice filmmakers to present their projects. All projects are reviewed, shortlisted and then presented during the festival

City’s Festive Mood

city Sundance film Festival

Sundance film festival location; Utah is all warmed up and welcoming the art connoisseurs from around the world to visit the 2021 Sundance film festival and explore the ideas of new, independent filmmakers. Sundance youth forum will take place on Sundance 2021 dates of January 28 to January 30. This forum provides an opportunity for the young talent to present their projects on a grand scale and connect with industry professionals, funders, producers and Sundance event programmers.

Filed Under: Blog, How To Fest Tagged With: Sundance guide

You Might Be Interested in Reading These Too

Persuasion Machines

Persuasion Machines

Posted: January 10, 2020

Do these machines control us, or are we their controllers? The existential question that you ask when you enter a living room. A mixed-reality setup backed with surveillance technologies gives life to this world of data. We use gadgets without any set parameters. This film explores how the data that we feed in our machines […]

0 comments
Tickets from Sundance Box Office

How To Get Your Ticket From Sundance Box Office

Posted: October 17, 2019

Sundance Film Festival box office opens around 10-15 days before the event takes place. If you have made any advanced bookings, you will need to get your tickets purchased physically from the Sundance box office Park City and Sundance Salt Lake City box office. But you can’t just barge in there and ask them to […]

0 comments
The 40-Year-Old Version

The 40-Year-Old Version

Posted: January 6, 2020

Radha – a promising playwright in the past is struggling at 40. After facing nonstop rejections, being single and stigmatised, she teaches a group of teens and becomes creatively involved in her long lost love for her rap-passion.  Simultaneously, her play gets going and she has to out back her dreams of recording a rap […]

0 comments
Lil John

Lil John, Wiz Khalifa, The Chainsmokers: The Sundance 2021 Musical Bedlam

Posted: January 22, 2020

“What You Gon Do” when the PCL drops a ton of madness raging the town for 11 epic days. The Uproar came after the Sundance musical announced that Lil Jon would be performing live after ages. What more than him opening on Thursday followed by his birthday celebrations, which let’s be fair was last week. […]

0 comments
Sandlines, the Story of History

Sandlines, the Story of History

Posted: January 7, 2020

Francis Alÿs has adopted this unique idea of telling the story of history itself through children. This film captures the history of Iraq from the Sykes-Picot agreement in 1916 to the Islamic State’s influence of terror in 2016. These children, who have only seen war and destruction, do not know about a country named Iraq. […]

0 comments

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Follow Us on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/sundancefestival.net/

SUBSCRIBE FOR UPDATES!

We will update you regarding early availability of Sundance tickets.

Something of Your Interest

Sundance Deadlines

Deadlines & Guidelines – The Sundance Film Festival 2021

Sundance Independent Film Makers

How Sundance Film Festival Works and Impacts Filmmakers

Sundance couldn’t overlook glamorous Robert Redford-family

Sundance couldn’t overlook glamorous Robert Redford-family

Do's and Don't's of sundance film festival

Do’s and Don’ts of Navigating Through Sundance Film Festival

Recent Posts

  • Sundance seals various humongous deals
  • Powerful “Yalda” film welcomed by critics at Sundance 2021
  • The heart-warming Korean Immigrant Drama “Minari” flares up at Sundance
  • Sundance couldn’t overlook glamorous Robert Redford-family
  • Celebrity Portraits from 2021 Sundance Film Festival

This website is not official representative of Sundance Film Festival and have no claim to the trade mark.