"The organisers asked for a 10-minute respectful event at sunset on Park City's Main Street to memorialise Renee Good, who was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent on 7 January, and Alex Pretti, who was killed on Saturday by an agent of the Department of Homeland Security. Footage of the protest posted by Deadline showed participants holding up their lit phones and chanting love melts ICE as a small group of law enforcement officials looked on."
"Deadline reported that Lord of the Rings actor Elijah Wood was among the protesters, and told the publication: The folks who have been unlawfully gunned down in Minnesota it's awful. Here we are at this film festival that is about bringing people together; it's about telling stories from all over the world. We're not divided here; we're coming together. Notable among figures making statements has been actor Natalie Portman, who wore ICE out and Be Good pins while conducting media duties at the festival."
"Portman also told Deadline: What's going on in this country right now is absolutely horrific. What the federal government, Trump's government, Kristi Noem, ICE what they're doing is really the worst of the worst of humanity. Actor and director Olivia Wilde also commented on the shootings on Saturday, telling Variety: I'm appalled and sickened. We can't go another day just sort of accepting this as our new norm. It's outrageous. People are being murdered"
The Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah hosted a mass protest called Sundancers Melt ICE in response to two fatal shootings in Minneapolis. Organisers requested a 10-minute sunset vigil on Main Street to memorialise Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both killed by federal immigration agents. Attendees held lit phones and chanted "love melts ICE" while law enforcement observed. Several high-profile actors joined and spoke out, including Elijah Wood, Natalie Portman and Olivia Wilde. Portman wore protest pins and condemned federal actions, while Wilde called for delegitimising ICE and urged resistance to normalizing such killings.
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