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Sundance 2025 Kicks Off With Technical Glitches, Questlove and Anxiety About the Future of Indie Film
Sundance's opening night is filled with more than a dozen premieres, Questlove, Marlee Matlin and some tech glitches.
“Does it get more Sundance than this?” Eugene Hernandez, the festival’s director, said at the opening night premiere of “Twinless,” which was being unveiled Thursday at the Eccles, Park City’s biggest venue. Add to that extremely chatty Sundance tech and ground staff (not the volunteers, who were as warm and welcoming as ever in their one-of-a-kind Kenneth Cole down jackets), and it made for a disruptive kickoff. The flurry of activity seemed to be designed to show that the celebration of indie film is still going strong after nearly half-a-century, and there were plenty of the kind of memorable moments that have made Sundance so iconic.
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