In addition to playing over 80 new feature films, the Park City, Utah, fest will once again showcase key films that have shaped the Sundance Institute and independent storytelling in turn.

But two years later, as Thomas leans back in a chair at the Galen Center while sharing his story for the first time, he says his perspective has been shaped by that dark stretch.

Many residents of western Altadena — which was shaped by discriminatory lending practices in the 1960s and 70s and has become known for its strong Black community — say they feel forgotten.

Writing about the way different generations come to see the world in different ways, the political theorist Michael Walzer has described what he calls a “gradual pedagogy” that is shaped and reshaped by experience.

For more than a thousand years, colonial aspirations have shaped the island’s history.