In fair Verona, a war as old as time is brewing between rival houses - but it's being captured in a new way. Montague and Capulet Gen Zers are using their cell phones to document the eruptions of violence plaguing their communities. In the middle of it all, Romeo discovers Juliet's artwork at a party, and the two inevitably fall in love. As tensions between their families escalate, the two plead for peace and desperately search for a way to escape their star-crossed destiny.

Told entirely through social media and smartphone screens, this bold adaptation of Romeo and Juliet reinvents the world's most enduring love story with style and lyricism, with Black and Brown youth at the heart of it all. Blending text messages and Shakespearean dialogue, R#J takes us into the subversive love language of the moment, where GIFs, Spotify playlist exchanges, and instagram profiles kindle romance and unexpected windows of vulnerability. Sundance shorts alum Carey Williams (Emergency) launches us into the impressive vision of his debut feature, where technology powerfully unveils timelessness.

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL: RAFFLE RULES

• To prioritize public health and safety, thes escreenings are for a private group and will not be open to the public. Purchasing a raffle ticket does not guarantee you will be able to attend an in-person screening. Each screening has 40 raffle tickets available, with a limit of ONE raffle ticket per person per screening.
  
  
• FilmScene will draw raffle winners for ALL screenings and showtimes on Thursday, January 21 at 10am. Winners will be drawn in chronological order for showtimes. Winners will only be able to win ONE raffle screening. Once a name is drawn, any other entries for subsequent screenings with the same name will be nullified.
  
  
• FilmScene will notify all winners via email and/or phone. Winners must respond by Friday, January 22 at 6pm - failure to respond will result in forfeit of screening and another entry will be pulled. Once confirmed, FilmScene staff will send an email with all of the screening information, visitor protocol and important festival information.
  
  
• Winners cannot change the screening date, time, film, or theater listed. No exchanges or refunds.