Film Club: LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
About this Live Online Event
There is perhaps no film more synonymous with the Sundance Film Festival than Little Miss Sunshine. Premiered 20 years ago to rapturous praise, Little Miss Sunshine began its journey in Park City and went on to earn $100 million at the box office, win two Oscars, and shape an entire generation’s definition of American independent cinema.
The Film Club event series will devote its August session to this nostalgia-inducing crowdpleaser. A monthly, community-driven deep dive into the soul of the Sundance Film Festival, Film Club highlights one film each month from the recently-published Sundance Film Festival 101 Watchlist.
In this free, online event, Film Club host Kiva Reardon will lead a discussion on the tectonic impact of this “little indie film that could.” Reardon is a film producer (Sorry, Baby), critic (cléo journal), and programmer (Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, TIFF) who serves as the lead lecturer and host of Film Club on Sundance Collab. Reardon will deliver a close analysis of the film, unpacking how it lands its tragicomic tone, connects with audiences so effortlessly, and how it defined an entire subgenre of feel-good indie film. The session will include clips, discussion, and close with an audience Q&A in which attendees can ask the host questions.
Don’t miss our second event in our monthly Film Club series with Kiva Reardon.
Claim your free spot now.
If you would benefit from an accommodation to fully participate in this event, please either submit a request here, contact us at (435) 776-7790, or email us at accessibility@sundance.org to discuss your specific requests. Every effort will be made to accommodate advance requests; however, requests made within 5 days of the event may not be guaranteed.
A recording of the presentation and audience Q&A will be posted to Film Club within two business days of the live event. Everyone who registers will receive an email with a link to view the recording when it is posted.
Live Online EventHost
Kiva Reardon
Kiva Reardon is a producer, writer, and programmer working across fiction and non-fiction. Previously, she held the positions of: Vice President of Film at Barry Jenkins’s production company PASTEL; Associate Director of Film Programs at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures; and Lead Programmer of Contemporary World Cinema at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
She founded cléo journal, a publication dedicated to film and feminism, which ran from 2013 to 2019. Under Kiva’s leadership, cléo became an internationally-respected outlet that helped launch a new generation of film writers. IndieWire called cléo an "essential source for smart, fresh, and feminist perspectives on film and media." Its print compendium was published in 2020.
Her writing has appeared in Filmmaker, Sight & Sound, MUBI Notebook, Cineaste, and many others. She writes a newsletter on movies and motherhood, Care Takes. She has acted as an advisor at screenwriting labs and served on festival juries at Locarno, Jeonju, Palm Springs, Aspen, and more. She has spoken at film and art institutions around the world. She is on the founding Advisory Board of the Los Angeles Festival of Movies.