For talent heading to Park City to promote their movies, The Sundance Film Festival can feel like an endless loop of portrait studios, photocalls, and branded lounges—polished and predictable. So this year, we sent photographer Myles Pettengill into the wild to capture a mix of the festival’s biggest names and some of its fresh new faces as they really are. In stairwells, hotel lobbies, Thai restaurants—wherever the moment happened. The result? An unfiltered portrait of Sundance as it really is when you’re there on the ground. No backdrops, no retouching, just vibes.
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RACHEL SENNOT
ACTOR, BUNNYLOVR
MURRAY BARTLETT
ACTOR, OPUS
HAVANA ROSE LIU
ACTOR, LURKER and HAL & HARPER
ARCHIE MADEKWE
ACTOR, LURKER
JOHN MALKOVICH & AYO EDEBIRI
ACTORS, OPUS
MOLLY GORDON
ACTOR, OH, HI!
DYLAN O’BRIEN
ACTOR, TWINLESS
KATARINA ZHU
DIRECTOR, BUNNYLOVR
ROSE BYRNE
ACTOR, IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU
MAMOUDOU ATHIE
ACTOR, BY DESIGN
QUINTESSA SWINDELL
DIRECTOR, THE LILY (เดอะลิลลี่)
LOGAN LERMAN
ACTOR, OH, HI!
OLIVIA WASHINGTON
ACTOR, AN ALMOST SUCCESSFUL DATING APP STORY
WINTER COLEMAN
DIRECTOR, AN ALMOST SUCCESSFUL DATING APP STORY
OLIVIA WASHINGTON, LIONEL BOYCE, WINTER COLEMAN
AUSTIN AMELIO
ACTOR, BUNNYLOVR
ALIA SHAWKAT
ACTOR, ATROPIA
GERALDINE VISWANATHAN
ACTOR, OH, HI!
IRA SACHS
DIRECTOR, PETER HUJAR’S DAY
MARK ANTHONY GREEN
DIRECTOR, OPUS
HAILEY GATES
DIRECTOR, ATROPIA
STEPHANIE SUGANAMI
ACTOR, OPUS
ALEX WOLFF
ACTOR, MAGIC FARM
LILI REINHART
ACTOR, HAL & HARPER
JACK KILMER
ACTOR, BUNNYLOVR
AISLING FRANCIOSI
ACTOR, TWINLESS
STEPHAN JAMES
ACTOR, RICKY
JOHN MAGARO
ACTOR, OMAHA
TONATIUH
ACTOR, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
RUSSELL TOVEY
ACTOR, PLAINCLOTHES
JAMES SWEENEY
ACTOR & DIRECTOR, TWINLESS
EUGENE KOTLYARENKO
PRODUCER, MAGIC FARM
AMALIA ULMAN
DIRECTOR, MAGIC FARM
THÉODORE PELLERIN
ACTOR, LURKER
