Sundance NEXT FEST Returns to The Theatre at Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles, August 7-9

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE TO HOST SUMMER FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL IN DOWNTOWN LA

The Sundance Institute will host Sundance NEXT FEST August 7-9, 2015, for the second year at The Theatre at Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The weekend-long summer festival celebrates independent artists by pairing five new independent films with either a special music act that shares a complementary artistic sensibility or conversations between the filmmakers and those who inspired them. Sundance NEXT FEST is an extension of the Sundance Film Festival’s popular NEXT section, which has launched films including Obvious Child, Compliance, Appropriate Behavior, Tangerine and Escape from Tomorrow.

Sundance NEXT FEST Logo. Courtesy of Sundance Institute

This will mark the festival’s third year in Los Angeles. Highlights of last year include the premiere of Life After Beth with a solo acoustic performance by Father John Misty, a screening of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night with a live performance by Warpaint, and a screening of Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter followed by a conversation between the filmmakers and Werner Herzog.

Sundance NEXT FEST Screening Of “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” With Concert By Warpaint.
LOS ANGELES, CA – AUGUST 10: Producer Elijah Wood and director Ana Lily Amirpour (R) attend the screening of “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” with Warpaint in concert during Sundance NEXT FEST at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on August 10, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/WireImage)

Sundance NEXT FEST Theatre at Ace Hotel Interior. Photo Credit: Michael Rababy

The Theatre at Ace Hotel is a delicate restoration of the 1,600-seat United Artists Theater, built in the 1920s for the Maverick Film Studio founded by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W Griffith and Charles Chaplin. Designed by C. Howard Crane, the Theatre is a shrine to the arts, with a three-story, 2,300-square-foot grand lobby, an ornate open balcony and mezzanine, vaulted ceiling and richly colored murals depicting the legends of film’s Golden Age, immortalized in mythic attire.