Sundance 2021 snaps up three Australian films

A genre-spanning selection includes VR film 'Prison X - Chapter 1: The Devil & The Sun', feature documentary 'Playing with Sharks', and short film 'GNT'.

Australian film has a strong history at Sundance Film Festival, with award-winning feature films like Relic (2020), The Nightingale (2019) and Top End Wedding (2019) all featuring in past festivals. This year is no different; with the recent announcement of Sundance’s 2021 program, which will take place online and in person, comes the news that three Australian productions will feature.

The three productions cross a broad range of genres and include animated VR film Prison X – Chapter 1: The Devil & The Sun, feature-length documentary Playing with Sharks, and award-winning independent animation short, GNT

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Jini Maxwell is a curator at ACMI, and an award-winning videogame journalist. They curated ‘Honk: Untitled Goose Exhibition,’ co-curate Gay24, a monthly film night showcasing rare, radical and archival queer films. Jini is currently co-curating a major videogame exhibition at ACMI.

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