The Sundance Film Festival announced Wednesday that, due to the surge of the Omicron variant, the 2022 event will be online-only. The Park City, Utah festival was scheduled to kick off Jan. 20 with in-person screenings. However, “we do not believe it is safe nor feasible to gather thousands of …
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