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.

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

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.

Mark E. Potts is the senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times. A native of Enid, Okla., Potts graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a master’s degree in broadcast journalism. He has created and edited video for DreamWorks, YouTube, Microsoft, Sony and BET.

Even alongside heavy-hitters like Lithgow and Colman, it is remarkable how effortlessly Mason-Hyde holds their own. In many ways, their scenes are what bring everything out that the adults are looking away from.

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.

EXCLUSIVE: Sundance prize-winning filmmaker Sophie Hyde (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande) says casting “a version of yourself” is not an easy task. “It’s very tricky to do,” says Hyde, director of Jimpa,

Olivia Colman and John Lithgow can only carry Sophie Hyde's well-intentioned semi-autobiographical Sundance drama 'Jimpa' so far

Trailblazer honoree James Mangold says now is the time for storytellers to lean into "sincerity and earnestness" more than ever: "We shouldn’t be embarrassed to feel shit and show it."

Rose Byrne plays a mother in the midst of a breakdown in the experiential psychological thriller “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.”