The film ‘Freaky Tales’, by Pedro Pascal, is the leader on the billboard at the Sundance Festival, in Utah, United States. Other films touch on topics of artificial intelligence, LGBTI and more.
The festivals, awards and nominations for film awards continue at the beginning of the year. Right now, in Utah, United States, there is the Sundance Festival, with Pedro Pascal and Kristen Stewart as main guests.
The Sundance Festival was co-founded by Robert Redford and is celebrated with temperatures below zero and at an altitude of 2,150 meters above sea level.
Is he most anticipated space for independent films. Also appearing this year are acclaimed directors Richard Linklater and Steven Soderbergh.
Latin America, present
The Latin American team will have, among others, pproductions from Mexico, Peru and Brazil, all focused on social dynamics and with a gender perspective.
One of the highlights of the first day of this 40th edition was ‘Freaky Tales’, with the Chilean-American Pedro Pascal.
There is narrated a series of interconnected stories that take place on the same day in 1987in Oakland, with punk teenagers, skinhead Nazis, a rap duel and a national basketball league star.
Playing a hitman hunted by a fascist group, Pascal explained that the filmmakers, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, They filmed multiple fight scenes simultaneously in just one “crazy” night to save money.
“You were killing all the Nazis, we were shooting downstairs. That was really strange,” said the actor.
Mission Impossible in the elderly
Also on the first night it premiered ‘Thelm’, an action comedy which is billed as a geriatric version of ‘Mission: Impossible’.
“I hope we get distribution with someone who will allow a theatrical release first before going to streaming,” said June Squibb, his actress, 94 years old.
Although some films such as Lionel Richie’s documentary ‘The Greatest Night in Pop’ and Laura Linney’s comedy-drama ‘Suncoast’ have already guaranteed their premieres with major studios, Sundance It is a key space to obtain distribution channels.
The festival will also screen dozens of new documentaries with topics such as artificial intelligencethe future of American democracy and concerns of the LGBT community.
2024-01-19 21:55:08
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