The 2019 Sundance Film Festival is still a few weeks away but it just revealed the 112 feature films that’ll be playing the festival next year. They originate from 33 countries and were chosen out of over 15,000 submissions.
Sundance 2015 is the year of VR, marking a metaphorical starting gun for an entire new film industry. Presumably timed to the festival, Oculus VR took the opportunity to launch its own film-focused studio alongside a spate of other cinematic VR projects.
Since 2003, Sundance awards the Alfred P. Sloan Prize to a feature with “science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character.” 2011 saw the slow but intriguing Another Earth win, and this year it went to Robot And Frank, a near-future…