The Full Rundown of Sundance 2016 Deals (So Far)
The 2016 Sundance Film Festival is now in full swing, with masterpieces and disaster pieces alike having already screened for knife-sharpening critics. Sundance is where the indie breakouts of the year to come first capture critical attentions and generate buzz, but in a more immediate sense, the festival provides free-agent films with a precious opportunity to secure distribution. Sundance acts as a bustling film marketplace, where studios eager to find the next Brooklyn or The Diary of a Teenage Girl wheel and deal with producers to get the rights to the festival’s offerings. Below, we’ve compiled a full rundown of all the deals made at this year’s Sundance thus far — treat it like a preview of coming attractions, a guide to the future highlights of 2016.