In this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, co-hosts Daniel Loria and Rebecca Pahle give a snippet of the recently concluded Academy Awards. In the feature segment, Daniel interviews Sundance Director Eugene Hernandez on the success of this year’s festival and how the organization has remained a bridge between artists and the audience.  

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Episode Resources:

• 2024 Sundance Film Festival

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:24 The Oscars
• 05:18 Oscars’ Best Picture nominees
• 13:11 How’s Park City?
• 14:34 First Sundance Festival
• 17:54 What does Sundance mean to the film industry?
• 23:04 17,000 film submissions this year
• 27:55 From festival discovery, acquisition, and distribution to audience
• 33:31 Nurtured and supported by Sundance institute
• 37:10 Independent editorial voice
• 42:48 What worked and didn’t work post pandemic?
• 45:56 Recovery of art house  and nonprofit cinemas update