Searchlight TV Developing New “Sundance” Documentary For Hulu & Disney+

This year’s Sundance Film Festival is about to kick off, for one last time in Park City, Utah, and the event celebrates the best independent movies, which Disney executives attend to acquire films for its studios like Searchlight Pictures.

According to Deadline, Searchlight Television is developing an untitled three-part series for Hulu/Disney+ that tells the story of the Sundance Institute.

The series will “chronicle the legacy of the Sundance Institute, tracing the story of the creative incubator that shaped many of the most influential filmmakers of our time”.

The three-part series will feature never-before-seen archival footage and look at the cultural impact of the Institute, which was founded by Robert Redford in 1981. It will trace the ways that the likes of Coogler, Anderson, Zhao and Tarantino found their creative freedom thanks to the organisation.

This untitled show will feature a wide variety of filmmakers, including “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler, “A Star Is Born” producer Lynette Howell Taylor and “Icarus: producer Mark Monroe, who are also among the executive producers.

It will be directed by Braden King, who previously premiered his own film, “Here”, at the Sundance Film Festival.

It is exec produced by Howell Taylor for 51 Entertainment, King for Truckstop Media, Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, and Kelli Buchanan for Proximity Media, Carly Hugo and Matthew Parker for Loveless and Monroe, who also writes. Sundance’s Michelle Satter, Amy Redford and John Cooper serve as consulting producers.

No other details on the upcoming “Sundance” series have been revealed, such as when it will be released on Hulu and Hulu On Disney+ in the United States and on Disney+ around the world.

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