The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:
>January 1
On TV: CNN
LUTHER: NEVER TOO MUCH
Sundance 2024
Director:
Dawn Porter
About:
Luther Vandross started his career supporting David Bowie, Roberta Flack, Bette Midler, and more. His undeniable talent earned platinum records and accolades, but he struggled to break out beyond the R&B charts. Intensely driven, he overcame personal and professional challenges to secure his place amongst the greatest vocalists in history.
>January 7
On DVD/VOD
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT
Sundance 2024
Director:
Johan Grimonprez
About:
In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the US dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
>January 7
Streaming: Paramount+ w/Showtime
BLACK BOX DIARIES
Sundance 2024
Director:
Shiori Ito
About:
Journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.
>January 10
In Theatres
EVERY LITTLE THING
Sundance 2024
Director:
Sally Aitken
About:
Amid the glamour of Hollywood, Los Angeles, a woman finds herself on a transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds, unraveling a visually captivating and magical tale of love, fragility, healing, and the delicate beauty in tiny acts of greatness.
>January 14
In Theatres
DIG! XX
Sundance 2024
Director:
Ondi Timoner
About:
DIG! XX tracks the tumultuous rise of two talented musicians, Anton Newcombe, leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Courtney Taylor, leader of the Dandy Warhols, and dissects their star-crossed friendship and bitter rivalry. Through their loves and obsessions, gigs and recordings, arrests and death threats, uppers and downers, and ultimately to their chance at a piece of the profit-driven music business, they stage a self-proclaimed revolution in the music industry.
country’s broken food system and the innovators risking it all to transform it.
>January 20
Streaming: MAX
LOOK INTO MY EYES
Sundance 2024
Director:
Lana Wilson
About:
A group of New York City psychics conduct deeply intimate readings for their clients, revealing a kaleidoscope of loneliness, connection, and healing.
>January 24
On VOD
ETERNAL YOU
Sundance 2024
Director:
Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck
About:
Startups are using AI to create avatars that allow relatives to talk with their loved ones after they have died. An exploration of a profound human desire and the consequences of turning the dream of immortality into a product.
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