Sundance Master Grid
See it all on the screen or just murder it on the dance floor like you are ready to star in Saltburn.
This document below is solely for paid subscribers and I politely ask that you not share it. That said, almost all of the info in it is sourced from publicly available data. Films that have been acquired since Sundance started have been highlighted in Orange. For the next two months this document will be updated weekly (after that monthly) and will soon add box office performance. Once they start it will also include Berlinale and SXSW films with a similar set of info. If there’s additional info you would like to see in these grids let me know. Same if anything is unclear. Ultimately this data will be taken in for Sundance, Berlin, Tribeca, Cannes, Toronto/Telluride/Venice (yes there’s a reason those three are combined)
It includes all Sundance features, their distributors, sales agents, rotten tomatoes score, # of RT reviews, Metacritic score, Additional A List fests the films screened at or will screen at, Sundance Awards won, and terms for acquusition titles including price amount and territories.
Knowledge is power
Now some have asked what can be done to hold fests like Sundance to account for insider progrmming. I think that part of DEIA means dismantling legacy status. This requires film fests to be transparent about programming. And unfortunately requires gatekeepers to relinquish power which spoiler, they are in no rush to do. I think Sundance should publicly commit to programming a certain % of cold submission across their programs. Note that even though 9% of features may have come from non-alums that doesn’t mean they were cold submissions. In fact I know that at least half of them were not. I think something like 15% of features will come from cold submissions and 30% of shorts, episodics, and VR/AR would be a nice start. Admittedly SXSW does a much better job at taking cold submissions. I regularly talk with filmmakers and progammers alike about titles that truly came from nowhere and got into the fest. But places like Sundance, Cannes, and TIFF are all basically programmed off of insider track.
NOW FOR THE GRID
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