The 2018 Sundance Film Festival will try to do for television and web-based programming what it’s done for independent movies: Be a place to discover what’s new and what’s next.
Starting this January, the festival in Park City will include a separate program, Indie Episodic, to showcase unique storytelling that is delivered in bite-size chunks — an hour or a half-hour or, for the web, sometimes shorter.
“It all has to do with the way audiences are engaging with this kind of media, with all of the digital platforms that are omnipresent now,” said Trevor Groth, the festival’s programming director.