Sundance Film Festival
At the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, 4ALL LIVE delivered live captions and translation across 15 venues, with QR access on attendee phones, captions on stage monitors, and trained local projectionists supporting the workflow.
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Deployment context
A multi-venue film festival must make live introductions, panels, and filmmaker Q&As accessible without confusing them with the authored captions, subtitles, and audio-description assets used for the films themselves. The published accounts describe a repeatable audience path: venue audio entered a live workflow, attendees used QR codes for personal access, and selected rooms used shared caption displays.
Deployment highlights
The details below show how the event connected source audio, audience access, and production destinations.
| Deployment detail | Workflow and outcome |
|---|---|
| Event | The 2026 Sundance Film Festival, with live accessibility applied to audience-facing remarks and Q&As rather than to the films’ authored accessibility assets. |
| Published footprint | 4ALL operated across 15 venues. Sundance’s accessibility guide also names six theater locations where real-time captions and language translation were available for in-person remarks and Q&As. |
| Personal access | Attendees could scan a venue QR code and open the available caption or translation experience on a personal device. |
| Shared displays | 4ALL’s recap describes side-by-side stage monitors showing live captions for audience members who preferred a room display. |
| Local operation | 4ALL reports that its team visited the participating venues and trained projectionists to operate the workflow during the festival. |
Deployment approach
Treat authored film captions, subtitles, and audio description as a different workflow from live introductions, panels, and Q&As.
Prepare the source-audio, network, viewer QR, display, and operator checklist that every participating room must follow.
Give projectionists a consistent preflight and show procedure, while keeping an escalation path for platform or venue issues.
Check both the personal browser experience and any shared stage display from the same location and network the audience will use.
Questions about the deployment
4ALL’s deployment recap documents a 15-venue workflow. Sundance’s accessibility guide also lists six theater locations offering real-time captions and language translation for in-person remarks and Q&As.
This case study concerns live introductions, panels, remarks, and Q&As. Festival film captions, subtitles, closed-caption devices, and audio-description tracks are separate authored or theatrical accessibility workflows described by Sundance.
The published workflow used QR codes that opened captions and translations on personal devices. 4ALL’s recap also describes live captions on side-by-side stage monitors.
Yes. A Level Forward event page for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival states that its event provided real-time captioning and live translation through 4ALL.Live.
The deployment prioritized consistent access across venues: clear QR entry points, personal browser viewing, shared stage monitors, trained projectionists, and repeatable room-by-room preflight.
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