The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:
>August 1
Streaming: Criterion Channel
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.
>August 1
Streaming: Film Movement+
AGENT OF HAPPINESS
Sundance 2024
Director:
Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó
About:
Amber is one of the many agents working for the Bhutanese government to measure people’s happiness levels among the remote Himalayan mountains. But will he find his own along the way?
>August 8
In Theatres
IT’S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY
Sundance 2025
Director:
Amy Berg
About:
Rising musician Jeff Buckley had only released one album when he died suddenly in 1997. Now, never-before-seen footage, exclusive voice messages, and accounts from those closest to him offer a portrait of the captivating singer.
>August 12
On VOD
MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE
Sundance 2025
Director:
Shoshannah Stern
About:
In 1987, Marlee Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award and was thrust into the spotlight at 21 years old. Reflecting on her life in her primary language of American Sign Language, Marlee explores the complexities of what it means to be a trailblazer.
>August 19
Streaming: Netflix
DEVO
Sundance 2024
Director:
Chris Smith
About:
Born in response to the Kent State massacre, new wave band Devo took their concept of “de-evolution” from cult following to near–rock star status with groundbreaking 1980 hit “Whip It” while preaching an urgent social commentary.
>August 25
On TV: POV
A NEW KIND OF WILDERNESS
Sundance 2024
Director:
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
About:
In a forest in Norway, a family lives an isolated lifestyle in an attempt to be wild and free, but a tragic event changes everything, and they are forced to adjust to modern society.
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