Hello everyone and welcome to the Next Best Picture podcast. It is that time of year again, where we are

recapping the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. I am your host, Matt Negli. The time of recording is 11.04 a.m.

on January 27th, 2024. The festival is still ongoing. We are coming up to the end right now. Most of us are back at

home catching up on some of the titles online. But I have some really, really special guests here

for this episode to talk with me about their experience, both in person, at home. What were the

best films that they saw at this year's

festival? First up, we have Thomas Laughley. Hello, everyone. Matt, thanks for having me.

Absolutely. And returning to the show, we have Mertata El Faddle. Hey, Matt. Hi, everyone on the call.

I'm so excited to be back on the show to talk about Sundance. Always a great

conversation. I appreciate it. And then we also have joining us here for the first time,

Jillian Chillingarion. Yes. Hi. Excited to be here. And first time on the show as well,

we have Sidney Volpe. Hello. I'm honored and excited to be here with you all.

Yes, we got a great, great group here.

All of us, I'm sure, have seen quite a wide range of films.

Heck, even before we hopped on here, Matato was like, I haven't seen the big titles.

I've seen like the more obscure titles.

And I'm like, great, excellent.

That's what we want.

We want to be letting our audience know what they can expect in 2024.

For these are movies that are going to be coming out all throughout the entire year.

Hell, maybe even into 2025 in some cases if they don't find distribution right away.

But what I want to do first is, before we get into the films themselves, I would like to just

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