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Sundance film festival to revive London offshoot in 2016

LONDON (AP) — Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival is reviving its London offshoot, and continuing its spinoff event in Hong Kong.

Sundance London ran for three years from 2012 to 2014, showing a selection of films form the Park City, Utah-based parent festival.

The event was canceled this year, but organizers said Thursday it would return in 2016, moving from the O2 center in east London’s docklands to Picturehouse Central, a seven-screen cinema complex due to open in the city center in June. No dates were announced.

Sundance Hong Kong will run September 17-27 at the Metroplex in Kowloon Bay.

Festival director John Cooper said the London and Hong Kong events “allow us to extend the tremendous energy and excitement of our Sundance Film Festival to adventurous audiences in Hong Kong and London.”

Popular Leesburg coffee shop reopening this summer

Shoes Cup and Cork Club, the popular coffee shop on North King Street that closed its doors suddenly over the holidays in late 2012, will be reopening under new management this summer, Leesburg Today reports. General Manager Lori Miller was an executive assistant with SWaN Investors, which owns Shoes and is headquartered just a block up the road, when the previous management decided to close up shop to start a sandwich shop in Frederick, Md.
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