Just as awards season is in full effect, so too is festival season. While a number of recent film festivals at the moment are trying to sneak their way into Oscar-voters considerations, the Sundance Film Festival 2015 line-up reveals what's in store for next year.
The full line-up can be found on the Sundance Film Institute's website. It's hit movies, separated into several cateogories, feature hit stars like Kristen Wiig, Ken Jeong, Jack Black, James Marsden, Alexander Scarsgard, Sarah Silverman, Taylor Schilling, Adam Scott, Cobie Smulders, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Margot Robbie and Chris Pine, just to name a few.
The festival will kick off with The Bronze, starring Melissa Rauch, Gary Cole, Thomas Middleditch and Cecily Strong, along with the documentary How to Change the World. From there, among the most interesting of the set list include Z For Zachariah, starring Chiewetel Ejiofor, Margot Robbie and Chris Pine, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, starring Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni, Kristen Wiig, I Smile Back, with Sarah Silverman, Me, Earl and the Dying Girl, with Nick Offerman, Thomas Mann and Molly Shannon, The Overnight, with Adam Scott and Taylor Schilling, and Nasty Baby, starring Kristen Wiig.
Considering last year's Sundance included such hits as Boyhood, Whiplash> (read our review here), Dear White People, The Skeleton Twins and Obvious Child, it should be expected this year's festivees will be no different. What great films we have in store will have to be determined next month, when the festival begins on January 22, 2015.
More information, including future players and special contenders in the festival, will be released in due time. For now, this is what to expect during those snow days in Utah.