The Sundance Film Festival announced additions to the 2024 film festival program for the festival's 40th edition on Tuesday. Screenings and restorations of past festival hits will join the new films in Park City, Utah, Jan. 18-28.
Napoleon Dynamite became a cult hit comedy after it premiered at Sundance. From Jared and Jerusha Hess and starring Jon Heder and Efran Ramirez, it popularized slogans like "Vote for Pedro" with shirts available for purchase.
Go Fish was a landmark lesbian drama from writers Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche. Turner also starred and Troche directed. Three Seasons was a Vietnamese-American drama from Tony Bui, co-written by Bui and his brother Timothy Linh Bui.
The horror classic The Babadook will screen again, 10 years after its Sundance premiere. Jennifer Kent's horror movie stars Essie Davis as a mother terrorized by a spooky book.
Dee Rees' Pariah, starring Adepero Oduye and Kim Wayans, which premiered in 2011, also screens again.A restoration of the 1991 Denzel Washington/Sarita Choudhury romance Mississippi Masala, from director Mira Nair and writer Sooni Taraporevela will premiere. The 1984 documentary The Times of Harvey Milk has also been restored to screen again.
Jay and Mark Duplass will host screenings of Sundance shorts. Miguel Arteta, Richard Linklater, Dawn Porter, and Christine Vachon will participate in a panel, Power of Story: Four Decades of Taking Chances.
The Sundance Film Festival officially took its name in 1984, named after founder Robert Redford's character The Sundance Kid. Formerly, the Utah/U.S. Film Festivals occurred annually in Utah.
Ticket packages are now on sale at the Sundance website, with individual tickets on sale Jan. 11.
