The New York Times and Sundance Institute Announce Joint Projects at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival
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NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2016 – The New York Times and Sundance Institute today announced several collaborations at the start of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The projects, both new and ongoing, include:
New Frontier Films on NYT VR
The NYT VR app will showcase virtual reality films from the 2016 Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier program, which highlights the work of artists and technologists who are pushing the boundaries of storytelling. Films featured in the app are selected by New York Times Opinion editors from among a wide range of virtual reality films premiering at the Festival. The films are “Kiya” by Nonny de la Peña, a film about a true story of domestic violence, “American Bison” by Danfung Dennis and Condition One, an experiential film with endangered animals, and “Waves of Grace” by UN advisor Gabo Arora and Vrse and Vrse.works co-founder Chris Milk, about a Liberian woman who survived Ebola and used her immunity to take care of orphans. Films from the Festival are published with Opinion essays on virtual reality, available on NYTimes.com/SundanceVR.
The NYT VR app is free and available for download in the Google Play and iOS App Stores. The Google Cardboard viewer offers the most immersive experience but users without Cardboard viewers are also encouraged to download the NYT VR app for an enhanced video experience.
Op-Docs at 2016 Sundance Film Festival Series
The New York Times’s Op-Docs will publish its fifth consecutive series of short films from the Festival. This series, part of an ongoing collaboration with Sundance Institute, will feature short documentaries by filmmakers who are showing work in the Festival. The series includes “Verbatim: Ferguson” by Brett Weiner, and the premiere of an original short film by “Bad Kids” directors Lou Pepe and Keith Fulton, among others.
Launched in the fall of 2011, Op-Docs is The New York Times’s editorial department’s Emmy-winning forum for short, opinionated documentaries, produced with wide creative latitude and a range of artistic styles, covering current affairs, contemporary life and historical subjects. All Op-Docs can be seen at NYTimes.com/OpDocs.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Short Documentary Fund at Sundance Open
The New York Times Op-Docs is collaborating with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Short Documentary Fund at Sundance Institute to fund independent filmmakers and artists to create new short form documentaries. The fund is open to alumni of Sundance Institute, Firelight Media, TriBeCa, ITVS/Independent Lens, and POV. To submit a proposal, visit NYTimes.com/video/opdocs/pitch.
TimesTalks at 2016 Sundance Film Festival
For the sixth year in a row, the 2016 Sundance Film Festival program will include five TimesTalks at the Cinema Café in Filmmaker Lodge on Main Street in Park City, Friday January 22 through Tuesday, January 26. These events are available to Festival passholders.
The guest panelists include Lena Dunham and Norman Lear; Chelsea Handler and Morgan Spurlock; John Krasinski and Thomas Middleditch; Werner Herzog and Joshua Oppenheimer; and Rebecca Hall and Michael Shannon. The interviewers include NYT culture reporter and "The Carpetbagger" Cara Buckley, NYT Op-Docs series producer and curator Kathleen Lingo and frequent NYT contributor and TimesTalks moderator Logan Hill.
For the full schedule or to watch livestreams of the events, visit TimesTalks.com or Sundance.org.
NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2016 – The New York Times and Sundance Institute today announced several collaborations at the start of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The projects, both new and ongoing, include:
New Frontier Films on NYT VR
The NYT VR app will showcase virtual reality films from the 2016 Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier program, which highlights the work of artists and technologists who are pushing the boundaries of storytelling. Films featured in the app are selected by New York Times Opinion editors from among a wide range of virtual reality films premiering at the Festival. The films are “Kiya” by Nonny de la Peña, a film about a true story of domestic violence, “American Bison” by Danfung Dennis and Condition One, an experiential film with endangered animals, and “Waves of Grace” by UN advisor Gabo Arora and Vrse and Vrse.works co-founder Chris Milk, about a Liberian woman who survived Ebola and used her immunity to take care of orphans. Films from the Festival are published with Opinion essays on virtual reality, available on NYTimes.com/SundanceVR.
The NYT VR app is free and available for download in the Google Play and iOS App Stores. The Google Cardboard viewer offers the most immersive experience but users without Cardboard viewers are also encouraged to download the NYT VR app for an enhanced video experience.
Op-Docs at 2016 Sundance Film Festival Series
The New York Times’s Op-Docs will publish its fifth consecutive series of short films from the Festival. This series, part of an ongoing collaboration with Sundance Institute, will feature short documentaries by filmmakers who are showing work in the Festival. The series includes “Verbatim: Ferguson” by Brett Weiner, and the premiere of an original short film by “Bad Kids” directors Lou Pepe and Keith Fulton, among others.
Launched in the fall of 2011, Op-Docs is The New York Times’s editorial department’s Emmy-winning forum for short, opinionated documentaries, produced with wide creative latitude and a range of artistic styles, covering current affairs, contemporary life and historical subjects. All Op-Docs can be seen at NYTimes.com/OpDocs.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Short Documentary Fund at Sundance Open
The New York Times Op-Docs is collaborating with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Short Documentary Fund at Sundance Institute to fund independent filmmakers and artists to create new short form documentaries. The fund is open to alumni of Sundance Institute, Firelight Media, TriBeCa, ITVS/Independent Lens, and POV. To submit a proposal, visit NYTimes.com/video/opdocs/pitch.
TimesTalks at 2016 Sundance Film Festival
For the sixth year in a row, the 2016 Sundance Film Festival program will include five TimesTalks at the Cinema Café in Filmmaker Lodge on Main Street in Park City, Friday January 22 through Tuesday, January 26. These events are available to Festival passholders.
The guest panelists include Lena Dunham and Norman Lear; Chelsea Handler and Morgan Spurlock; John Krasinski and Thomas Middleditch; Werner Herzog and Joshua Oppenheimer; and Rebecca Hall and Michael Shannon. The interviewers include NYT culture reporter and "The Carpetbagger" Cara Buckley, NYT Op-Docs series producer and curator Kathleen Lingo and frequent NYT contributor and TimesTalks moderator Logan Hill.
For the full schedule or to watch livestreams of the events, visit TimesTalks.com or Sundance.org.