Sundance Institute Press
Sundance Institute Press
Welcome to the Sundance Institute Press Center!
Below you will find press information for the year-round initiatives of the Sundance Institute, including artist programs, Sundance Collab and the Sundance Film Festival (January 22–February 1, 2025). You can browse on your right-hand side for bio’s, visual assets, and if you have not already signed up to be on the press list to receive information and news alerts from Sundance please do so here. Read on for FAQ’s.
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Contact the Institute’s press team at press@sundance.org
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Sundance Film Festival
Accreditation for the Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival will take place from January 23–February 2, 2025. The Sundance Institute Press Office grants press accreditation to a limited number of media each year. We will offer credentials for in-person accreditation and a select number for the online element of the Festival. Due to our limited supply, we may be unable to accredit freelancers who are not on assignment; therefore, we encourage you to apply with an assignment letter.
The regular window for press accreditation applications for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival closed on October 29. The late accreditation window for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival closed on December 12. If you have any questions about the accreditation process or press access, please email presscredentials@sundance.org
The Press Inclusion Initiative, our effort to cultivate a more representative press corps at the Sundance Film Festival, returns this year by providing multi-faceted support to journalists from underrepresented communities: specifically, critics who identify as BIPOC, women, LGBTQ+, and/or people with disabilities.
Applications were accepted until August 23rd. Selected participants will be informed in early October.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Click here to be taken to our Flickr, where you can find leadership headshots and atmospheric photos from Sundance Institute events. Festival film stills, director headshots, and day-by-day photos of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival will be available on our Dropbox account closer to festival. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, please email press@sundance.org with your request.
Please email press@sundance.org with a detailed request and your deadline and we will see what’s possible.
If you are interested in covering other Sundance Institute programs, including our residential labs, workshops, or other public events, please email press@sundance.org.
Please fill out this form to request an interview with a Sundance Institute spokesperson or supported artist.
About the Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the nonprofit, Sundance Institute, is the pre-eminent gathering of original storytellers and audiences seeking new voices and fresh perspectives. Since 1985, hundreds of films launched at the Festival have gone on to gain critical acclaim and reach new audiences worldwide. The Festival has introduced some of the most groundbreaking films and episodic works of the past three decades, including Fire of Love, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Flee, CODA, Passing, Summer Of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Clemency, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Zola, O.J.: Made in America, On The Record, Boys State, The Farewell, Honeyland, One Child Nation, The Souvenir, The Infiltrators, Sorry to Bother You, Top of the Lake, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Hereditary, Call Me By Your Name, Get Out, The Big Sick, Mudbound, Fruitvale Station, Whiplash, Brooklyn, Precious, The Cove, Little Miss Sunshine, An Inconvenient Truth, Napoleon Dynamite, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Reservoir Dogs and sex, lies, and videotape. The program consists of fiction and nonfiction features and short films, series and episodic content, emerging media, and performances, as well as conversations, and other events. The Festival takes place both in person in the state of Utah and online, connecting audiences across the U.S. to bold new artists and films. The 2026 Festival takes place January 22–February 1 in Park City, Utah. Be a part of the Festival at Sundance Film Festival and follow the Festival at Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
About Sundance Institute
As a champion and curator of independent stories, the nonprofit Sundance Institute provides and preserves the space for artists across storytelling media to create and thrive. Founded in 1981 by Robert Redford, the Institute’s signature labs, granting, and mentorship programs, dedicated to developing new work, take place throughout the year in the U.S. and internationally. Sundance Collab, a digital community platform, brings a global cohort of working artists together to learn from Sundance advisors and connect with each other in a creative space, developing and sharing works in progress. The Sundance Film Festival and other public programs connect audiences and artists to ignite new ideas, discover original voices, and build a community dedicated to independent storytelling. Through the Sundance Institute artist programs, we have supported such projects as Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Big Sick, Bottle Rocket, Boys Don’t Cry, Boys State, Call Me by Your Name, Clemency, CODA, Dìdi (弟弟), Drunktown’s Finest, The Farewell, Fire of Love, Flee, Fruitvale Station, Half Nelson, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hereditary, The Infiltrators, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Little Woods, Love & Basketball, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Mudbound, Nanny, One Child Nation, Pariah, Raising Victor Vargas, Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, RBG, Sin Nombre, Sorry to Bother You, Strong Island, Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Swiss Army Man, A Thousand and One, Top of the Lake, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, and Zola. Through year-round artist programs, the Institute also nurtured the early careers of such artists as Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Gregg Araki, Darren Aronofsky, Lisa Cholodenko, Ryan Coogler, Nia DaCosta, The Daniels, David Gordon Green, Miranda July, James Mangold, John Cameron Mitchell, Kimberly Peirce, Boots Riley, Ira Sachs, Quentin Tarantino, Taika Waititi, Lulu Wang, and Chloé Zhao. Support Sundance Institute in our commitment to uplifting bold artists and powerful storytelling globally by making a donation at sundance.org/donate. Join Sundance Institute on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, and Bluesky.