Sundance 2025 kicks off with Questlove, Marlee Matlin, John Lithgow in attendance
Briefly

The Sundance Film Festival 2025 has commenced in Park City, Utah, featuring over 150 diverse projects including documentaries, feature films, shorts, and episodic works. Kim Yutani, the festival's Director of Programming, expressed excitement over this robust lineup. Notably, Marlee Matlin's documentary kicked off the event, with expressions of joy from both Matlin and director Shoshannah Stern. Actor John Lithgow also shared his enthusiasm about premiering at Sundance. Additionally, Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson discussed his surprise at having his film 'Sly Lives!' featured, after years of attending the festival for DJing and performances.
We're so excited to have over 150 projects, features, shorts, episodic, inclusive that will be launching this festival.
It's so exciting! I don't think I've ever been in the opening premiere at Sundance.
We're enjoying it, I always thought just the highlight of coming here was like, DJing a party.
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