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The Protesters Pushing Sundance to Grow a Spine for Palestine

There has been mostly silence on the ground about human-rights crises that directly affect the artistic communities at the core of Sundance.

Four activists laid down in front of a ceasefire banner, posing as dead Palestinians, and a counter-protester heckled, “This is bad acting, you’re at Sundance!” As the protest continued marching en masse further up Main Street, I caught up with I Saw the TV Glow star Brigitte Lundy-Paine in the crowd. That night, documentarians Brett Story and Stephen Maing gave a speech expressing grief for the victims of ongoing violence in Gaza and loss of human life on both sides of the border wall at the premiere of their film Union. And on Monday,documentarian Jules Rosskam called for a permanent ceasefire at the premiere of their film, Desire Lines, hoping that the audience can hold space for the land’s “histories and potentials … so that we may make more liberated futures together.”

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