It’s very, very difficult to argue that film fests are the way of the future. I spent a lot of time at last year’s Sundance Film Festival standing in lines, chugging Coke Zero, and trying to justify why exactly I’d taken a five-hour flight and a one-hour drive into the mountains of Utah to see some movies. I couldn’t help but wonder what this would all be like if everyone in line could just stay in Brooklyn and Silver Lake apartments, open the Sundance app on their Apple TVs and watch all the selections on demand while eating takeout.

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