While the 2016 edition of the Sundance Film Festival officially still has a full day of screenings ahead, tonight saw the essential end of the event with the annual awards ceremony. w(n)td will resume regular posting starting Monday, but until then, a summary of the awards announcement follows: Continue reading
Category Archives: Film Festivals
2016 Sundance Awards
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Sundance
Special Note: w(n)td & 2016 Sundance
Tonight, Thursday, January 21, sees the kickoff for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, for which I’m a Documentary Programming Associate. For that reason, w(n)td will be on hiatus for the duration of the festival, which runs through Sunday, January 31, with normal daily weekday posting to resume on Monday, February 1.
Follow me on Twitter, to keep up with Sundance, and also follow my Sundance filmmaker class of 2016 Twitter list to experience the festival through the eyes of this year’s filmmakers.
To catch up with Sundance doc programming, here are links to my series of 2016 Sundance documentary profiles, divided by festival section:
US Documentary Competition
AUDRIE & DAISY
HOW TO LET GO OF THE WORLD (AND LOVE ALL THE THINGS CLIMATE CAN’T CHANGE)
KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE (pictured)
World Cinema Documentary Competition
ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS
THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT (pictured)
SKY LADDER: THE ART OF CAI GUO-QIANG
Documentary Premieres
BECOMING MIKE NICHOLS
EAT THAT QUESTION – FRANK ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS
LO AND BEHOLD, REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD
MAPPLETHORPE: LOOK AT THE PICTURES
MAYA ANGELOU: AND STILL I RISE
MICHAEL JACKSON’S JOURNEY FROM MOTOWN TO OFF THE WALL
NORMAN LEAR: JUST ANOTHER VERSION OF YOU
NOTHING LEFT UNSAID: GLORIA VANDERBILT & ANDERSON COOPER (pictured)
RICHARD LINKLATER: DREAM IS DESTINY
New Frontier
CAMERAPERSON (pictured)
Special Events
AMERICAN EPIC
OJ: MADE IN AMERICA (pictured)
Park City at Midnight
THE BLACKOUT EXPERIMENTS
Sundance Kids
THE EAGLE HUNTRESS
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Sundance
On TV: DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD
Coming to Showtime this Friday, January 22 and to the History Channel this Saturday, January 23: DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD: THE STORY OF THE NATIONAL LAMPOON
Douglas Tirola’s look back at the popularity and influence of the satiric humor magazine debuted at Sundance last year. The doc went on to screen at Nantucket, Tribeca, Hot Docs, Full Frame, AFI Docs, Traverse City, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Sarasota, Montclair, and Sydney, among others.
My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
On TV: IN FOOTBALL WE TRUST
Coming to PBS’s Independent Lens next Monday, January 25: IN FOOTBALL WE TRUST
Tony Vainuku and Erika Cohn’s look at Polynesian teenagers’ dreams of success through sports made its bow at Sundance last year. The doc has gone on to screen at Los Angeles, DocUtah, CAAMFest, Hawaii, Twin Cities, and the San Diego Asian film fests, among others.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
2016 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE EAGLE HUNTRESS
And finally, I’ve reached the final doc of this year’s fest lineup, from Sundance Kids: THE EAGLE HUNTRESS, Otto Bell’s look at a Mongolian teenager determined to cross a millennia-old gender barrier.
Festival Section:
Sundance Kids
Continue reading
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Sundance
2016 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE BLACKOUT EXPERIMENTS
Today brings us to the last of this year’s Sundance nonfiction, beginning with the sole doc in the Midnight section: THE BLACKOUT EXPERIMENTS, Rich Fox’s exploration of the secret world of an individualized immersive fright experience and its adherents.
Festival Section:
Midnight
Continue reading
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Sundance
2016 Sundance Docs in Focus: OJ: MADE IN AMERICA
And wrapping up Special Events features (remaining nonfiction projects are short form): Ezra Edelman’s OJ: MADE IN AMERICA, an ESPN 30 FOR 30 miniseries about the football star-turned-murder suspect.
Festival Section:
Special Events
Continue reading
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Sundance
2016 Sundance Docs in Focus: CHELSEA DOES
Next up in Special Events: Eddie Schmidt’s CHELSEA DOES, a preview of the new Chelsea Handler-led Netflix docuseries.
Festival Section:
Special Events
Continue reading
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Sundance
2016 Sundance Docs in Focus: AMERICAN EPIC
My Sundance doc profiles move on to this year’s Special Events, one-off presentations of upcoming episodic and other unique programming: Bernard MacMahon’s AMERICAN EPIC, a preview of a multi-part PBS docuseries and feature doc exploring the roots of American music.
Festival Section:
Special Events
Continue reading
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Sundance
2016 Sundance Docs in Focus: NOTES ON BLINDNESS
My New Frontier roundup ends with the third of three nonfiction/hybrid titles: Peter Middleton and James Spinney’s NOTES ON BLINDNESS, which re-embodies a man’s experiences of losing his sight.
Festival Section:
New Frontier
Continue reading
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Sundance
