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Like Cannes and even, increasingly, the Academy Awards, The Sundance Film Festival isn’t so much a showcase of new movies as an annual mile marker denoting how far elite tastes and preoccupations have wandered from those of the movie-going public.RELATED: Robert Redford Refuses To Be Drawn Into #OscarsSoWhite Debate – Sundance
The 2016 Sundance Film Festival, which runs from today through January 31 in Park City, Utah, is no different. Five of the 16 entries in the “U.S. Drama” category feature gay characters and themes while six of them prominently feature drug and/or alcohol abuse.
Meanwhile, the “U.S. Documentary” category offers films touching on a list of lefty hobby horses, from more LGBT themes to Gun control to climate change to abortion on demand. Over on the “World” side, there’s a drama about a woman sexually attracted to a wolf and documentaries about Mexican prostitutes and the dark underbelly of “competitive endurance tickling.”
Unquestionably, these are the movies that wouldn’t “play in Peoria” in years gone by. That they play in Park reflects the agenda of those who run – and those who fund – the Sundance Festival.
The Sundance Foundation, which puts on the annual Festival, receives millions of dollars each year to push its liberal agenda on film enthusiasts.
In addition to support from individual, businesses, and the government, Sundance is currently funded by 13 foundations. Four of those are top liberal foundations: The Ford Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Knight Foundation, and – most notably – The Open Society Foundations, run by anti-capitalist billionaire George Soros.
Together, they have given Sundance at least $75.8 million since 2003.
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