That's a wrap! Here's what I wrote about at the online-only 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

The Sundance Film Festival is always exciting — even when, for the second year in a row, I spent it in my house.

After planning and hoping for a hybrid festival, with screenings in person in Park City and online, Sundance canceled the in-person part 15 days before the festival’s launch date — because of spikes in case counts for COVID-19, nationally and in Utah. So we were all back to watching movies through Sundance’s online portal, which was really good. (Did anyone else figure out the trick where you can watch two movies scheduled at the same time, back-to-back?)

Besides my reviews of 24 movies (not as many as I could have watched, if I didn’t have obligations with my new day job at The Salt Lake Tribune), here are the stories on sltrib.com that I filed:

• I wrote up some helpful tips for how to navigate the online-only festival.

• Sundance made some late additions to the line-up — two documentaries before the festival, and one announced midway through.

• I covered the festival’s opening night, including a beautiful statement video from Sundance founder Robert Redford. I also watched the fascinating documentary “32 Sounds” (which I didn’t review because I had to step away for a few minutes in the middle to file a story).

• I wrote about the one documentary a certain segment of Utah audience would most be interested in reading about: The Finnish documentary “The Mission,” which follows four missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Finland. I interviewed the director, Tania Anderson, before the premiere, then listened in on the Q&A for reaction from the missionaries who appeared in the film — who, I’m told, hadn’t seen it before.

• I talked to the founders of an Ogden special-effects house, who did the fake gunplay and blood splatter for director Michael Polish’s dark neo-Western series “Bring On the Dancing Horses.” Their SFX work is particularly in demand right now, after the tragic death of a cinematographer on a film set in New Mexico, killed when a prop gun went off with a live round in it.

• And I covered the festival’s awards “ceremony” — announced on Twitter, like the Golden Globes, but with pre-recorded acceptance speeches. Then, I added my own awards the juries didn’t consider.

That’s it for Sundance ‘22. Here’s hoping we can be back in Park City for 2023, so I can see some of my movie friends.