Gotham Alumni at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival
by The Gotham Staff on January 18, 2024 in News
The Sundance Film Festival brings together the most original storytellers and the most adventurous audiences for its annual program of dramatic, documentary, and short films. Since 1985, hundreds of films launched at the Festival have gained critical recognition and reached worldwide audiences eager for fresh perspectives and new voices. Congratulations to all Gotham alumni films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival! They are:
Dìdi (弟弟)
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
Directed and written by Sean Wang; produced by Carlos López Estrada, Josh Peters, Valerie Bush, and Sean Wang.
Screening in the U.S. Dramatic Competition.
Gotham Alum: Dìdi (弟弟) is an alumnus of the 2022 Gotham Week Project Market.
Girls Will Be Girls
In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.
Directed by Shuchi Talati; produced by Richa Chadha, Claire Chassagne, Sanjay Gulati.
Screening in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition.
Gotham Alum: Girls Will Be Girls is an alumnus of the 2021 Gotham Week Project Market.
Seeking Mavis Beacon
Launched in the late ’80s, educational software Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the program’s Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Two DIY investigators search for the unsung cultural icon, while questioning notions of digital security, AI, and Black representation in the digital realm.
Directed by Jazmin Renée Jones; produced by Guetty Felin.
Screening in Next.
Gotham Alum: Seeking Mavis Beacon is an alumnus of the 2021 Gotham Week Project Market.
Union
The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) — a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island — takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize.
Directed by Stephen Maing and Brett Story; produced by Samantha Curley and Mars Verrone.
Screening in the U.S. Documentary Competition.
Gotham Alum: Union is an alumnus of the 2021 Gotham Week Project Market.