A Dispatch From The 2025 Sundance Film Festival
/Film Daily
SlashFilm.com
4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On the February 3, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer Bill Bria to talk about his experience at Sundance 2025 and some of his favorite films from the festival.
In Our Feature Presentation: Sundance 2025!
- How would you compare your experience this year to previous years?
- Movies!
- If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Review: This Comedy-Thriller Is Like Uncut Gems Meets Eraserhead [Sundance]
- Rabbit Trap Review: Dev Patel Stars In A Blend Of Cosmic And Folk Horror [Sundance]
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| 0:55.0 | secure. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Monday, February 3, 2025. On today's |
| 1:00.9 | episode of the show, we're going to be talking about Sundance 2025. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor |
| 1:06.2 | at slashfilm.com, and I'm joined on today's episode by Slashfilm staff writer, Bill Brea. |
| 1:11.2 | Greetings and salutations. Bill, I believe this is going to be the first of three episodes |
| 1:16.5 | that we're going to be devoting to Sundance this week. I hope some of our listeners had the |
| 1:19.8 | opportunity to catch some of the films in the online portion of the festival that's accessible |
| 1:23.6 | to the public for a fee. It's a pretty cool thing that Sundance does that not many other |
| 1:28.0 | festivals do. So, Bill, you are the only one of us who actually made it to Park City, Utah, in person |
| 1:34.3 | this year. And as we record this, I am catching up with you just before you leave to fly back to |
| 1:40.4 | Los Angeles. So thank you for making the time to talk to me here. Oh, you're most |
| 1:45.5 | welcome. Okay. So before we get into what you thought about some of the movies themselves, |
| 1:51.7 | I wanted to ask you about your in-person experience this year. So how would you compare Sundance |
| 1:56.5 | 2025 to previous times that you've attended Sundance. What was the vibe like this year? |
| 2:02.1 | Yeah, so this is my fifth year attending Sundance, but only my third in person. |
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