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The Sundance Institute is maintaining its international outreach, by continuing offshoots of the Sundance Film Festival in Hong Kong and London, the institute announced today.
The second Sundance Film Festival: Hong Kong will run Sept. 17-27 at The Metroplex, a new multiplex theater in Kowloon Bay. The festival will run on two consecutive weekends, Thursday through Sunday. Ten independent films (to be determined) will have their Hong Kong premieres there.
And the Sundance Film Festival: London will return in 2016, after skipping this year. Exact dates have not been announced.
The London event has a new location: Picturehouse Central, a theater on London's West End - a redevelopment project of the former Cineworld Shaftesbury Avenue. The new theater has 1,000 seats in seven auditoriums, and three cafe bars. It opens in June.
This June, shortly after the venue's opening, Sundance will host a few private screenings and other events for London's independent film community at the Picturehouse Central.
Previously known as the Sundance London Film and Music Festival, the London event played three years at the O2 Arena.