Sundance Film Festival 2022 Canceled, Event to Be Held Virtually Instead

Sundance Film Festival‘s in person return this month has officially been cancelled and there will only be virtual events again this year.

The in-person festival was intended to kick off on January 20, 2022. Last year, the festival was entirely virtual due to the pandemic.

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“Despite the most ambitious protocols, the Omicron variant with its unexpectedly high transmissibility rates is pushing the limits of health safety, travel, and other infrastructures across the country. And so, today we’re announcing: the Festival’s in-person Utah elements will be moving online this year,” the Sundance Institute, the nonprofit behind the festival, said in a statement (via THR).

Another major event was just cancelled due to COVID-19 cases.