Continuing my spotlight on this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition: From the UK/Spain, Ben Lewis’ GOOGLE AND THE WORLD BRAIN, about the international controversy behind the Internet giant’s quest to copy the world’s books.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: GOOGLE AND THE WORLD BRAIN
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: FIRE IN THE BLOOD
Next up in Sundance’s 2013 World Cinema Documentary Competition: From India, Dylan Mohan Gray’s FIRE IN THE BLOOD, on the battle to secure affordable treatment for AIDS in the developing world.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: FALLEN CITY
Moving over to the 2013 World Cinema Documentary Competition: From China, Qi Zhao’s FALLEN CITY, a meditation on the aftermath of the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: VALENTINE ROAD
Today’s Sundance doc profiles open with the sixteenth and final film in the 2013 US Documentary Competition: VALENTINE ROAD, Marta Cunningham’s insightful investigation into a fatal school shooting.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM
Wrapping up today’s profiles is the penultimate film in the 2013 Sundance US Documentary Competition: Morgan Neville’s TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM, a celebration of music’s largely unheralded backup singers.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: NARCO CULTURA
Heading into the final stretch of this year’s US Documentary Competition: Shaul Schwarz’s NARCO CULTURA, about the impact of Mexico’s drug wars on Mexican and Latino-American pop culture.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: MANHUNT: THE SEARCH FOR OSAMA BIN LADEN
The 2013 Sundance US Documentary Competition sees the premiere of alum Greg Barker’s newest film: MANHUNT: THE SEARCH FOR OSAMA BIN LADEN, tracing the CIA’s efforts to stop the al Qaeda mastermind.
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Happy New Year!
I hope everyone had a safe and fun New Year’s Eve last night. In recognition of the holiday, w(n)td is taking a break from regular posting until tomorrow, when the film-by-film profiles of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival documentary line-up will resume. The US Documentary Competition will wrap up later this week – if you missed any, the series starts here. Happy 2013!
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: LIFE ACCORDING TO SAM
Sundance 2013 welcomes back another pair of alumni filmmakers with the next US Documentary Competition title: Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine’s LIFE ACCORDING TO SAM, about one driven family’s mission to combat the rare disease threatening their young son.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: INEQUALITY FOR ALL
Next up in the 2013 Sundance US Documentary Competition: Jacob Kornbluth’s INEQUALITY FOR ALL, in which former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains the reasons for the widening gap between America’s 1% and the rest of us.
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