Michelle Satter, her home burned in the Palisades Fire, accepts the Sundance Award

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Good morning! It’s Saturday, Jan. 25, and today’s forecast is for light snow, with 2 to 6 inches expected for Park City, according to the National Weather Service. The high temperature is expected to be 23 degrees. Early reports from our crew on the ground warn that it’s not only chilly, but very slippery out there, so be careful.

In this edition of our Sundance Daily newsletter, we recap Friday Night’s Sundance Institute Gala, share our tips for seeing live music in Park City, and reveal the first batch of photos and videos from LA Times Studios. Plus, the latest movie recommendations from our team of movie buffs.

The movies worth queuing for

“strings” (The Ray Theatre, 7.30pm)

In June 1972, after South Vietnamese planes dropped Napalm on the town of Trảng Bàng, a photographer captured the image of severely burned 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc fleeing the attack, completely naked, arms akimbo and wearing an expression of pain. “The Terror of War” — more commonly known as “Napalm Girl” — quickly became one of the most famous war photographs ever produced, fueling antiwar sentiment and earning a Pulitzer Prize for Nick UT of the Associated Press. Except, Bao Nguyen’s riveting investigative documentary alleges, it wasn’t UT who snapped the photo.

Nguyen, who crosses the globe from Arles, France, to Ho Chi Minh City to Southern California, follows Nguyen VII Foundation Executive Director Gary Knight as he follows up on a former AP photo editor’s allegation that the photo came from a Vietnamese stringer , whose work he says was falsely attributed to UT. (After learning of “The Stringer’s” existence, the AP conducted its own six-month investigation of the photo and released a 22-page report The AP has stated, “In the absence of new, compelling evidence to the contrary, the AP has no reason to believe anyone other than UT took the photo.”) Whether the documentary presents enough “new, compelling evidence” to change the history (and future) of The “terror of war” will be in the eye of the beholder, but it culminates in a forensic analysis of stills and video from that day in Trang Bang that left this viewer gobsmacked. — Matt Brennan

“rabbit trap” (January 30 and February 1, Library Center Theatre)

Folk choruses aren’t supposed to make a lot of sense, and writer-director Bryn Chainey’s feature debut, set in an unusually eventful Welsh forest, won’t disabuse you of that notion. But a mood is brewed—glued and laced with hints of fantasy—and if Peter Strickland and Alex Garland came up with these ideas before, these guys are swell company to be in. A too-modern-feeling couple (Dev Patel and “Blue Jean” Breakout Rosy McEwen) live in the mid-1970s in a cottage with more analog synth gear than Pink Floyd’s loft. He registers field sounds while she makes menacing experimental music. They smoke a lot of cigarettes, take a lot of baths and seem to avoid anything. Then a nameless local 12-year-old (the arresting Jade-croot) arrives, glomming on to their vibe, and the film tips muted towards something intrusive and suspenseful. The weird, beautifully designed and elliptical, is welcome. — Joshua Rothkopf

Movers and shakers from the entire party

No one represents the resilience of Los Angeles and its film community like Michelle Satter. A little more than a year after her son, Michael Latt, was shot and killed in his home, Satter’s Family Home was destroyed in the Palisades Fire earlier this month — and yet found Sundance Institute founder, honoree of this year’s Sundance Institute Gala, found notes of hope, even humor, in his speech Friday.

“As some of you know, we recently lost our family home in the fire that burned most of the Palisades,” a tearful Satter told attendees at the annual fundraiser held at the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley. “This is a deeply devastating time for us and so many others, a moment that calls for all of us to come together to support our larger community. As a friend recently remarked, and I have to listen to this: ‘Take a deep breath.’ Take a deep breath. We lost our village, but at the end of the day is the village. “

On a night that also celebrated Sean Wang (“Didi”), Julian Brave Noisecat and Emily Kassie (“Sugarcane”), Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked”) and James Mangold (“a complete unknown”), it was Satter who inspired Loudest cheers and longest standing ovations, helped by moving tributes from filmmaker Marielle Heller, actor Glenn Close and Sundance founder Robert Redford, who has written a letter in tribute to Satter – part of the Sundance family since its founding in 1981 – read by his daughter Amy.

In her remarks, Satter also remembered her late son, joked that he didn’t like waking up early when he volunteered to crew the Sundance Lab, and asked the audience to embrace the Sundance mission he grew up with.

“Let’s take this moment to celebrate the collective impact that we can all have when we come together as an inclusive community,” she said. “(Michael) would like to say to all of you, “leading with love, building community and promoting equity and cultural change through art and storytelling, that is our essential way forward. “”

In addition to the event’s support for the institute, organizers also Donations encouraged for La Fire victims and first responders Via the Entertainment Community Fund and the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation Emergency Wildfire Fund. —Matt Brennan

Where to find us in Park City today

Ben Harper, who appeared in the documentary “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley,” surprised the sold-out audience after the film’s premiere at the Ray Theater on Friday night.

“If there’s ever a college thesis on how to turn a song into a hymn, Jeff Buckley and ‘Hallelujah’ is the intro,” Harper said before performing the song and participating in a brief Q&A with director Amy Berg.

You never know who might show up in Park City — including plenty of musicians, unlike Harper, who play outside of the festival. If you need a break from screenings this weekend, Insomniac Events, which puts on the biggest EDM festivals in the US (think Electric Daisy Carnival and Nocturnal Wonderland), is looking for Francis on Sunday. (Marquis Park City, 427 Main St., 9 p.m Tickets required21 and older only.)

And if EDM isn’t your speed—or you remember the ’80s hit “and we danced”—Eric Bazilian, one of the founding members of the group behind it, Hooters, is performing with fellow singer-songwriter James Bourne on Sunday ( 5:20 p.m.) and Monday (2:20 p.m.) at the ASCAP Music Café at Acura House of Energy, 550 SWESTHE. —Vanessa Franco

Inside the LA Times Studios

John Lithgow and the cast of “Jimpa” stopped by LA Times Studios on Main Street fresh from their well-received premiere Thursday night. After Lithgow finished posing for solo portraits, he turned the tables on staff photographer Jason Armond and borrowed his camera to click his own photo. See more photos of the stars who stopped by on Friday.

CLOCK: “By Design” at LA Times Talks @ Sundance presented by Chase Sapphire Reserve

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CLOCK: Alia Shawkat on her ‘screwball romantic comedy about the military industrial complex’

CLOCK: Dylan O’Brien on playing twins and Lauren Graham on trying a new kind of role

CLOCK: The children for ‘speech’ are not brawlers like many of us