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Emilia Clarke kicks off Sundance as film fest returns to mountain

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Andrew Marszal, Agence France-Presse

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Thrones&quot; star Emilia Clarke kicked off the first in-person Sundance festival in three years, as indie filmmakers and Hollywood stars pulled on their snow boots and headed back to the mountains of Utah.</p><p>Co-founded by Robert Redford, Sundance has launched countless independent movies, but its absence has been keenly felt at its wintry, high-altitude base in Park City as recent editions were forced online by Covid.</p><p>&quot;This is my first ever Sundance. So I am over the moon that everyone is filled with the same amount of excitement as I am,&quot; said Clarke, whose &quot;The Pod Generation&quot; film premiere headlined Thursday&#x27;s opening night.</p><p>&quot;It&#x27;s really important as well for independent cinema. We need to keep it alive,&quot; she told AFP.</p><p>Clarke stars opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor in &quot;The Pod Generation,&quot; a near-future social satire in which a corporation has invented a detachable egg-shaped &quot;womb,&quot; allowing couples to bring their babies to term externally.</p><p>The technology is marketed to spare women from the physical complications of pregnancy -- while conveniently keeping its inventor&#x27;s female employees at the office, and free of &quot;distractions&quot; from work.</p><p>&quot;There are so many aspects of this film that ask so many fundamental questions that I think many of us will be wrestling with, especially now,&quot; said Clarke. &quot;I think it&#x27;s timely, important and beautiful.&quot;</p><p>While Sundance skews to low-budget films, Clarke is one of dozens of Hollywood stars who will make the trek to Park City for high-wattage premieres.</p><p>Also Thursday, &quot;Star Wars&quot; alumnus Daisy Ridley unveiled &quot;Sometimes I Think About Dying,&quot; a low-key indie drama in which she plays a deeply shy office worker whose quiet life is punctured by the arrival of a new, charismatic colleague.</p><p>On Friday, Jonathan Majors will unveil a much-hyped performance in &quot;Magazine Dreams,&quot; set in the dangerously competitive world of amateur bodybuilding.</p><p>At the weekend, Anne Hathaway stars in &quot;Eileen,&quot; about a young secretary working at a prison who befriends a glamorous counselor with a dark secret.</p><p>Emilia Jones also returns to the festival that first played her best picture Oscar winner &quot;CODA,&quot; with &quot;Cat Person,&quot; adapted from a New Yorker short story, and &quot;Fairyland,&quot; based on a best-selling memoir about San Francisco&#x27;s AIDS crisis.</p><div><strong>&#x27;Surreal&#x27; </strong></div><p>Despite -- or because of -- headwinds now facing the market for films aimed at adults and arthouse movie theaters, anticipation for Sundance&#x27;s return this year has been especially high.</p><p>&quot;It&#x27;s just exciting to be back at the mountain,&quot; said Sundance CEO Joana Vicente at a press conference Thursday, referring to the festival&#x27;s ritzy ski resort home.</p><p>Program director Kim Yutani said Sundance stands out from other festivals with countless examples of &quot;directors getting their next gig, or people meeting their next collaborators on the shuttle&quot; between venues.</p><p>Director Nicole Newnham -- whose previous Oscar-nominated documentary &quot;Crip Camp&quot; debuted at the last in-person festival in 2020 -- told AFP it felt &quot;surreal&quot; to be back. </p><p>Her latest documentary &quot;The Disappearance of Shere Hite&quot; tells the astonishing but forgotten story of the author of &quot;The Hite Report&quot; -- a pioneering survey on female sexuality that sold millions of books but triggered a furious backlash from conservatives.</p><p>It is one of several major documentaries this year tackling sex and politics, along with &quot;Judy Blume Forever,&quot; which charts how the US author guided a generation of young girls through puberty, but also came under attack from activists.</p><p>Brooke Shields will attend Sundance as the subject of &quot;Pretty Baby,&quot; which addresses the sexualization of young girls via the supermodel&#x27;s own journey.</p><p>&quot;I&#x27;m really honored to be included in the festival this year... the fact that there&#x27;s such a strong showing of films about women&#x27;s sexuality and women&#x27;s issues is really heartening,&quot; said Newnham.</p><p>On Friday, Jason Momoa narrates &quot;Deep Rising,&quot; an eye-opening and unsettling look at the race to harvest the ocean seabed for rare metals under the guise of furthering the &quot;so-called green revolution.&quot;</p><p>Other timely and prominent themes in the documentary lineup include films about Ukraine and Iranian women.</p><p>The 2023 Sundance Film Festival runs until January 29.</p><p>© Agence France-Presse</p>

'Game of Thrones' star Emilia Clarke kicked off the first in-person Sundance festival in three years, as indie filmmakers and Hollywood stars pulled on their snow boots and headed back to the mountains of Utah.

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Emilia Clarke kicks off Sundance as film fest returns to mountain

Andrew Marszal,

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Published Jan 20, 2023 07:36 PM PHT

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