Sundance Film Festival opens door to TV and web series with Indie Episodic slate

Festival programmers pick 17 titles that tell stories in installments, reflecting “all of the digital platforms that are omnipresent right now.”

By Sean P. Means

| Dec. 4, 2017, 9:00 p.m.

| Updated: 9:11 p.m.

In case you missed it

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Eric Rojas pours a Swede Alley Nitro Stout from Top of Main at Squatters in West Valley City on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025.

Here’s why one of Utah’s most popular brewpubs is expanding to the west side

(Jeff Beatty | Sundance Institute) Student activists lead a protest at Washington, D.C., Gallaudet University in 1988, in the documentary "Deaf President Now!," directed by Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. A free screening of the documentary, for Utah residents, is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City.

Sundance is offering free film screenings for Utah residents. Here’s how to get tickets.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) West High School students chant “trans youth are valid” as they wave a transgender flag during a walkout on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 to protest banning transgender girls from participating in female school sports. Utah currently has a commission that determines which transgender girls can or can't compete in high school athletics; on Jan. 6, 2024, the commission approved a set of standards on which to make those decisions, including testosterone levels.

PREMIUM

Utah trans girls now required to meet testosterone levels stricter than NCAA to compete in high school sports

THE LATEST

Voices: In Utah, a woman’s choice can often be an illusion

BYU finds a way to click with rivalry game against Utah looming

Why Utah State hopes to feel at home in Las Vegas this week

Letter: Inadequate learning is “a dangerous thing,” indeed, and lays bare the condition of America’s electorate

‘Ballerina Farm’ family leaves Utah — temporarily — for Ireland