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Inside the Archives: The Highly Anticipated Summer Trivia Sequel

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By the Archives team

 

As you try to keep cool in the summer heat, our Sundance Institute trivia game continues to sizzle! As a follow-up to our June game, we’re once again shining a light on new releases and revisiting some past gems. A new twist in our continued effort to highlight Sundance-supported artists and projects, see if you have the film smarts to guess the names of the people and films in this round!  

 

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

 

How many can you guess correctly?

Name this Sundance Institute alum director ready to take the summer box office by storm(s):

His feature film Minari, which depicts a Korean American boy moving with his family from the West Coast to rural Arkansas in the 1980s, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Minari received both the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and the Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic at the 2020 Festival and went on to be nominated for six Academy Awards.

Photo by: Jovelle Tamayo

He participated as a creative advisor for the 2020 Screenwriters Intensive, mentoring writers and directors as they developed their first fiction feature film.

Photo by: Francesca Hummler

Answer
Lee Isaac Chung
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Identify the film about an epic six-week music festival in the summer of 1969:

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson made his directorial debut with the world premiere of this film during the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. In 2023 the film returned for a special screening at the Festival and Questlove served as a panelist on the Onyx Collective’s Storytellers Showcase panel there.

Photo by: Rachael Galipo

The film won both the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at the Festival and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Questlove shared that the first cut of the film was three hours and 20 minutes long when discussing how critical the editing process was in the making of the documentary.
Answer
Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
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Who is this multi-Sundance Film Festival alum actor who’s starring in a dark thriller releasing this summer:

This actor worked alongside Kirsten Dunst in The Virgin Suicides, directed by Sofia Coppola, which screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. This marked his first appearance on the mountain.
He starred with Lucy Liu in Lucky Number Slevin, a neo-noir crime thriller, which screened at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

Photo by: George Pimental/WireImage

He took on a producer role, in addition to acting, for the film August, directed by Austin Chick, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. August also featured Adam Scott, another Sundance Festival mainstay.

Photo by: Jemal Countess/WireImage

Answer
Josh Hartnett
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Name this recent drama-filled mockumentary:

This film’s 2023 Sundance Film Festival premiere screening featured a live musical performance by the cast during the Q&A. The film went on to win the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble.

Photo by: Stephen Speckman

Sundance alum Will Ferrell was one of the film’s many producers.

Photo by: Stephen Speckman

Minari’s Alan Kim made an appearance in the film as an ambitious talent agent.

Photo by: Miguel Mendoza

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Theater Camp
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