The Sundance Film Festival is back for another round of innovative, in-depth storytelling in Park City on Jan. 19 to 29 and comes with more surprising turns this year. Other than the 'interactive and immersive haptic Virtual Reality story experiences,' it seems like actors and filmmakers will also be planning to stage an anti-Trump protest to kick off the celebration on January 21.
For two hours, celebrities will join the community and their sister group in Washington D.C. to voice out concerns for women's rights - an area where the president-elect is highly criticized for. At the moment, according to their Facebook page, the Women's March on Main Street has 600 attendees but is seen likely to explode now that Hollywood stars are planning to march with them.
"We have an opportunity in the creative communities to spread hope, tolerance, and inclusiveness in our art and with our voices. We relish the chance to join Park City, its organizations and citizens, and our larger nationwide community on this day," the group stated on their event page. The Sundance Institute is not connected to the rally. Celebs voluntarily joined the march to protest for women's rights.
While that is seen in America, Australia has groundbreaking the news that has their movie slated under the New Frontiers with a new Australian artist collective keen to producing virtual reality films. The brainchild of the new media is London-based Australian artist Shaun Gladwell, which is made of Australia's filmmakers with VR productions.
"The most amazing thing about VR is you can effect a scale crisis," Gladwell told Sydney Morning Herald. "The skull can be the size of a planet. I really wanted that idea that you almost inhabit the skull as if you were a thought running around neural pathways of a brain that no longer exists," he said. Either way, the Sundance Festival is sure to rev up the growing interests of the audience.
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