Next up in the US Documentary Competition: Mark Grieco’s MARMATO, in which a rural Colombian mining town is threatened with extinction by multinational development.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: MARMATO
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: IVORY TOWER
Continuing my spotlight on the second half of the 2014 Sundance US Documentary Competition: Andrew Rossi returns to Sundance with IVORY TOWER, an eye-opening exploration of the high cost of higher education.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY: THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ
Today’s look at Sundance 2014’s US Documentary Competition wraps up: Brian Knappenberger’s THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY: THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ, about the life and tragic early death of the Internet wunderkind and information activist.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: FED UP
I’ve reached the halfway point of this year’s US Documentary Competition profiles: Stephanie Soechtig’s FED UP, an investigation into America’s obesity epidemic.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: E-TEAM
Returning to my 2014 Sundance profiles, the next US Documentary Competition title: Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman’s E-TEAM, following the investigators of human rights violations around the world.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: DINOSAUR 13
The third Sundance 2014 US Documentary Competition title of today: Todd Miller’s DINOSAUR 13, about the strange aftermath of a singular paleontological find.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: CESAR’S LAST FAST
Continuing my doc-by-doc look at Sundance 2014 docs: Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee’s US Documentary Competition entry, CESAR’S LAST FAST, about the life and death of influential labor organizer Cesar Chavez.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE CASE AGAINST 8
The first of today’s Sundance 2014 docs: From the US Documentary Competition, Ben Cotner and Ryan White’s THE CASE AGAINST 8, which follows the fight for marriage equality all the way to the Supreme Court.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: CAPTIVATED: THE TRIALS OF PAMELA SMART
Wrapping up today’s profiles of Sundance 2014 docs: Jeremiah Zagar’s US Documentary Competition entry, CAPTIVATED: THE TRIALS OF PAMELA SMART, a closer look at America’s first televised court trial, a harbinger of sensationalized reality TV.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: ALL THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS
Continuing my look at the 2014 US Documentary Competition: ALL THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS, John Harkrider’s personal doc hybrid which seeks to reconcile an estranged friendship.
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