Sundance 2023 Pronounces Extra Premiere, Competitors, Encore Titles

Beneath is the announcement on the additions, taken from the pageant’s press launch.

U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Past Utopia / U.S.A. (Director: Madeleine Gavin, Producers: Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen, Sue Mi Terry) — Hidden digital camera footage augments this perilous high-stakes journey as we embed with households trying to flee oppression, finally revealing a world most of us have by no means seen. World Premiere. Accessible on-line.

PREMIERES

Earth Mama / U.S.A (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Savanah Leaf, Producers: Cody Ryder, Shirley O’Connor, Medb Riordan, Sam Bisbee) — A pregnant single mom with two youngsters in foster care embraces her Bay Space neighborhood as she fights to reclaim her household. Solid: Tia Nomore, Erika Alexander, Doechii, Sharon Duncan Brewster, Dominic Fike, Bokeem Woodbine. World Premiere. Fiction.

Flora and Son / U.S.A, Eire (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: John Carney, Producers: Anthony Bregman, Peter Cron, Rebecca O’Flanagan, Robert Walpole) — Single mother Flora is at battle together with her teenage son, petty thief Max. Inspired by the police to search out Max a passion, she rescues a beat-up guitar from a dumpster and finds that one particular person’s trash generally is a household’s salvation. Solid: Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Orén Kinlan, Jack Reynor. World Premiere. Fiction.

Previous Lives / U.S.A (Director and Screenwriter: Celine Music, Producers: Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, David Hinojosa) — Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply linked childhood mates, are wrest aside after Nora’s household emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they’re reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of future and love, and the alternatives that make a life. Solid: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro. World Premiere. Fiction.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Stephen Curry: Underrated / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Peter Nicks, Producers: Ryan Coogler, Erick Peyton) — Stephen Curry is without doubt one of the most influential, dynamic, and surprising gamers within the historical past of basketball. Intimate cinematic video, archival footage, and on-camera interviews reveal Curry’s rise from an undersized faculty participant to a four-time NBA champion. World Premiere. Documentary.

ENCORE SPECIAL SCREENINGS

CODA / U.S.A, France (Director and Screenwriter: Siân Heder, Producers: Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, Patrick Wachsberger) — As a CODA – Little one of Deaf Adults – Ruby is the one listening to particular person in her deaf household. When the household’s fishing enterprise is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her concern of abandoning her mother and father. Solid: Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant, Marlee Matlin. World Premiered within the 2021 Sundance Movie Competition’s U.S. Dramatic Competitors part, the place it gained the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic, Viewers Award: U.S. Dramatic, and U.S. Dramatic Particular Jury Award for Ensemble Solid.