(Los Angeles) The Sundance American Film Festival, which was scheduled to open Jan. 20 in Utah, has given up on keeping its events in the flesh due to the spread of the Omicron variant and will still be fully virtual this time. year, the organizers announced on Wednesday.
“The face-to-face elements of the festival in Utah will take place this year online,” they lament in a statement, citing “the surprisingly high transmission rates of the Omicron variant” of COVID-19 and regretting that they cannot implement The “hybrid experience” they had prepared.
More details to come.