Utah residents can get free tickets to five screenings during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival — two in Park City, two in Salt Lake City and one online.
As part of Sundance’s “Local Lens” screenings, Utah residents can register for in-person screenings at the festival’s website, festival.sundance.org.
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Sign up for an account now, if you don’t have one already, and when registration opens — Thursday at 10 a.m. Mountain time — add one of the screenings to your cart and check out.
Two screenings will be held at The Ray, at 1768 Park Ave. in Park City. Two more will take place at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City.
All in-person screenings will be presented with open captions.
Here are the four in-person screenings:
• Wednesday, Jan. 29, 6:15 p.m., The Ray • “Omaha,” a drama starring John Magaro (”September 5″), directed by Utah local Cole Webley, written by Brigham Young University professor Robert Machoian, and partly filmed in Utah. Also on the program is a short film, “The Long Valley,” directed by Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck.
• Thursday, Jan. 30, 4:30 p.m., Rose Wagner • The documentary “Deaf President Now!,” which tells of the 1988 student uprising at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., the world’s only university for the deaf.
• Sunday, Feb. 2, 3 p.m., The Ray • Best of Fest, with a festival award winner (to be announced).
• Sunday, Feb. 2, 5:30 p.m., Rose Wagner • Best of Fest, with a festival award winner (to be announced).
How locals can screen online for free
For the free online screening, Sundance is offering access to one of four festival movies.
To get access, register via Sundance’s website — sundancecollab.activehosted.com/f/48 — to claim a free ticket.
You will receive a promo code, which can be used for one of the four films (subject to availability) from Jan. 30 to Feb. 2. The four films are:
• “East of Wall,” a drama centering on a rebellious horse trainer providing refuge to teenagers on her ranch in the Badlands.
• “Sally,” a documentary about the pioneering astronaut Sally Ride.
• “Speak.,” a documentary that follows five high school competitors in one of the world’s largest public speaking competitions.
• “Where the Wind Comes From,” a drama from Tunisia, in which a 17-year-old girl and her introverted male friend, 23, take a road trip.
