"The 2026 Sundance Film Festival has officially kicked off this week, its final edition in the iconic location its always called home: Park City, Utah. Many believe this is the end of an era of not just the festival itself, but of what it represented to hundreds of filmmakers, and an entire industry through the years (though we'll be eager to see how that legacy continues when it moves to Boulder, CO next year)."
"Gregg Araki is perhaps one of the preeminent representatives of the New Queer Cinema movement of the '90s. Alongside other up-and-coming filmmakers of the time-like Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, Cheryl Dunye and Rose Troche-these directors put unapologetic queerness front-and-center in their narratives, rejecting the coded messaging or played-down sensibility that was prevalent in Hollywood for so many decades, and put forward stories & characters that felt authentic, raw, and inextricable to their identity."
The 2026 Sundance Film Festival has officially kicked off as the final Park City, Utah edition, with many seeing the move to Boulder, CO next year as an end of an era for filmmakers and the industry. Gregg Araki is premiering his first feature in over a decade at the festival while his 1993 film Totally F***ed Up once debuted there. The festival reshaped American indie film and helped put many LGBTQ+ filmmakers on the map. Gregg Araki is identified as a preeminent New Queer Cinema figure whose peers put unapologetic queerness front-and-center, rejecting coded messaging and presenting authentic, raw stories and characters; many peers favored tenderness, romance, dark comedy, or subversion, while Araki is noted for an especially anarchic sensibility.
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