While accepting her 2025 Sundance Visionary Award, Cynthia Erivo donned a tiara that presenter Olivia Colman left behind on the podium: 'It must be worn.'

Jessica Parker, Dylan O’Brien, Juliette Lewis, Olivia Colman, John Lithgow & More stopped by the Sundance Deadline Film Festival Studio

The Sundance Film Festival, held nearby in Park City for more than 40 years, is credited with catapulting the careers of once-unknown talent, including Quentin Tarantino, Kristen Stewart and Christopher Nolan, and is now full of recognizable faces presenting big new projects while clomping in the snow and networking on Main Street.

SALLY, directed by Cristina C, screening in the Premieres category was selected as the 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize winner, an annual juried award granted to an artist with the most outstanding depiction of science and technology in a feature-length film.

Olivia Colman says 'Jimpa' was so pleasurable to make, it 'sustains you over the next few, which won’t be quite as enjoyable potentially.'

Cynthia Erivo brought a touch of humor and elegance at the Sundance Film Festival while receiving the prestigious Visionary Award for her contributions to cinema. The Wicked actress didn’t sway the audience as much with her magnetic presence and powerful speech as she did by wearing the tiara left on the podium by none other than Olivia Colman.

Sophie Hyde Logline: Hannah (Olivia Colman) takes her nonbinary teenager, Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde), to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, Jim (John Lithgow) - lovingly known as Jimpa. But Frances' desire to stay abroad with Jimpa for a year means Hannah is forced to reconsider her beliefs about parenting and finally confront

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That we’re watching John Lithgow go on about oral sex and Olivia Colman chatting about polyamory with her teenage child make the film that much odder.

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — As many in the entertainment industry navigate the devastating effects of the California wildfires, some will soon be decamping to cleaner air in the mountains. The annual Sundance Film Festival begins Thursday in Park City, Utah.

Olivia Colman and John Lithgow are part of Thursday's kickoff of the Sundance Film Festival with their film 'Jimpa', while Questlove will present his documentary 'Sly Lives!' in this meeting of independent film whose future venue has not yet been defined by the organizers.