The famed Sundance Film Festival is expanding to Hong Kong, the indie film institute announced on Thursday. The festival will debut on September 19 and run through the 28th of the month.
John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, said,
“In our effort to share the best of American independent film with audiences outside the U.S., Hong Kong seemed an excellent location with a rich cinematic history. In partnership with The Metroplex, we look forward to presenting a program of diverse and high quality American independent films.”
Sundance Institute and The Metroplex will present Sundance Film Festival – Hong Kong Selects, a screening series of new American independent films accompanied by a delegation of filmmakers and Festival organizers from September 19 to 28, 2014, at the newly opened cineplex in Kowloon Bay in Hong Kong. Drawing on the Sundance Film Festival’s 30-year history of discovery and innovation and The Metroplex’s commitment to supporting film culture,Sundance Film Festival – Hong Kong Selects will offer the Hong Kong premieres of eight new films direct from the 2014 Festival in Park City, Utah, U.S.A.
John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, said, “In our effort to share the best of American independent film with audiences outside the U.S., Hong Kong seemed an excellent location with a rich cinematic history. In partnership with The Metroplex, we look forward to presenting a program of diverse and high quality American independent films.”
For more than three decades, Sundance Institute has promoted independent storytelling to inform and inspire audiences. Through labs, funding, special projects with key partners and the Sundance Film Festival, the Institute serves as a leading advocate for independent film and theatre artists worldwide. Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2014, the Sundance Film Festival has introduced global audiences to some of the most groundbreaking films of the past three decades, including Beasts of the Southern Wild, Fruitvale Station, Little Miss Sunshine, An Education, sex, lies, and videotape, Reservoir Dogs, Boys Don’t Cry, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, An Inconvenient Truth, Precious, and Napoleon Dynamite. The Festival is a program of the non-profit Sundance Institute®. Since 2012 Sundance Institute, with AEG Europe, has annually presented the Sundance London film and music festival and in 2013 the Institute launched the Los Angeles-based Sundance NEXT FEST, with this year’s event taking place August 7 to 10.
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