08.28.24

Inside the Archives: The Summer Trivia Season Finale

By jen scott

By the Archives team

As the weather starts to cool down, our trivia games are also wrapping up! In this final summer 2024 edition, we’re once again shining a light on new Sundance-supported releases and revisiting some past gems. A new twist in our continued effort to highlight our artists and projects, see if you have the film smarts to guess the names of the people and films in this round! We’ve enjoyed playing with you these past few months, and we look forward to sharing more about our role preserving Sundance Institute history and Sundance-supported films in the lead-up to the 2025 Festival.

Instructions: Scroll over each of the three images to uncover clues. Once you decide your answer (or the anticipation gets too high), reveal the correct response by clicking on the corresponding box below.

How many can you guess correctly?

Name the Destin Daniel Cretton award winning short film:

Director Destin Daniel Cretton premiered this short film during the 2009 Festival, which won the Jury Prize for Short Filmmaking.

Photo by: Chelsea Lauren/WireImage

Actor LaKeith Stanfield made his acting debut in this short film and returned for the feature of the same name, which was his feature debut. Stanfield also performed as one half of the duo Moors at the Festival’s Music Café in 2014 and 2016.

Photo by: Fred Hayes/WireImage

Several years after Cretton’s short and the release of his subsequent feature in August of 2013, he served as a creative advisor for the 2019 FilmTwo Initiative Screenwriters Intensive and Short Film Competition Juror at the 2023 Festival.

Photo by: Ian Tilghman

Answer

Short Term 12

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Name this Sundance alum actor starring in a moving new release:

This actor participated in various Theatre Program Labs over the years, including in 2007 and 2009 when he served as resource actor and in 2011 when he workshopped his play Wild with Happy at the Theatre Lab at the Banff Centre.

Photo by: Fred Hayes

In 2013, he took on a supporting role in his first Sundance Festival feature Newlyweeds, which was directed by Shaka King.

He played an intimidating villain in Janicza Bravo’s (pictured) film Zola, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

Photo by: Jemal Countess

Answer

Colman Domingo (Sing Sing)

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Identify this irreverent religious comedy:

This film had its in-person Sundance premiere at 2022’s Sundance Film Festival: London.

The film’s twin sister duo of writer-director Adamma Ebo and producer Adanne Ebo workshopped their project Supply, 404 at the 2019 Episodic Lab.

Photo by: Lauren Wester

Regina Hall (left, pictured with Jessica Williams), one of the film’s principal actors, made her Sundance Film Festival debut in 2015 with People, Places, Things.

Photo by: Stephen Speckman

Answer

Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

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This multi-Sundance Film Festival alum director is known for documentaries that capture the cultural impact and lifestyle of action sports:

His feature directorial debut Dogtown and Z-Boys premiered at the 2001 Festival and won both the Audience Award and Directing Award for Documentary.

Returning to the Festival in 2004, this director premiered Riding Giants, an insider’s look at the origins of surfing and the mythology and lure of the "big wave."

In 2012, this skating legend premiered Bones Brigade: An Autobiography at the Festival, documenting the rise of pro skateboarders Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, and Rodney Mullen, among others.

Answer

Stacy Peralta

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