Sundance Film Festival programmer Sudeep Sharma: ‘We try to approach our selection process with curiosity and wonder’
The 2025 edition of the Sundance Film Festival is all set to open in Park City, Utah, on January 23. Sundance Film Festival Programmer Sudeep Sharma focuses on documentary feature films. Ahead of this year's edition, Hindustan Times caught up with film festival programmer Sudeep Sharma, who works behind the scenes, focusing on documentary feature films. I think it’s a combination of the high level of the work of documentary filmmakers from around the world, the audience we have helped foster that is ready and excited to watch documentary film, and our programming process that is dedicated to showcasing emerging filmmakers and driven by an emotional and intellectually open engagement with the stories they tell. Having a history of playing some of the most important and moving documentaries of recent times has definitely helped us build on our ability of being a place to launch a documentary film, but every year is a fresh slate and we try to approach our selection process with curiosity and wonder about the real life stories that exist all around us and the different way filmmakers tell them.
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