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Sundance Film Festival adds three new movies, announces its opening-night slate, and promises a return of ‘The Blair Witch Project’

Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute announced Thursday some last-minute additions to the program for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival — including a 20th-anniversary showing of the 1999 horror thriller “The Blair Witch Project.”

The movie, depicting three college students making a documentary and becoming lost and hunted in the woods, was directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. Its use of handheld video camera launched a generation of “found-footage” imitators.

“The Blair Witch Project” will screen as part of the festival’s From the Collection program, selected by the Sundance Institute Collection at UCLA.

Also in the From the Collection program is Christopher Munch’s 1992 film “The Hours and Times.