David France’s revisiting of the grassroots efforts to find effective treatment for AIDS is the next film in my profiling of Sundance’s US Documentary Competition: HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE HOUSE I LIVE IN
The next US Documentary Competition title finds Sundance alumnus Eugene Jarecki returning to Park City: THE HOUSE I LIVE IN examines the unqualified disaster that is America’s War on Drugs.
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: FINDING NORTH
My rundown of the 2012 Sundance US Documentary Competition continues with: FINDING NORTH, Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush’s compelling exploration of poverty and food insecurity in the US.
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: ESCAPE FIRE
The next US Documentary Competition title in my profe of the upcoming Sundance doc slate: ESCAPE FIRE: THE FIGHT TO RESCUE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE, Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke’s far-reaching exploration of the US healthcare system.
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: DETROPIA
My look at Sundance 2012′s US Documentary Competition continues with returning filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady: DETROPIA, the story of a city, its decline, and its uncertain future.
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: CHASING ICE
Continuing my doc-by-doc look at Sundance 2012: Jeff Orlowski’s US Documentary Competition title CHASING ICE, which follows the efforts of an acclaimed photographer to document climate change.
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE ATOMIC STATES OF AMERICA
Next up in my 2012 Sundance doc line-up overview: Don Argott and Sheena M Joyce’s US Documentary Competition title THE ATOMIC STATES OF AMERICA, about the history and potential risky future of nuclear energy.
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY
Opening up my film-by-film look at the documentaries of the upcoming 2012 Sundance Film Festival is the alphabetical first of the US Documentary Competition: AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY, Alison Klayman’s insider portrait of the controversial Chinese artist and activist.
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus
The 2012 Sundance Film Festival is only three weeks away, and, as usual, the documentaries in the line-up are among some of the most anticipated programs to come to Park City. Beginning on Monday, I’ll offer brief looks at all of Sundance’s feature-length docs, usually covering three titles a day so that I’ll get through them all by opening night, Thursday, January 19.
The format will be similar to the one I used last year (which began here), and it’s important to note that these aren’t reviews – as a Documentary Programming Associate for the festival, I’m excited for audiences to see all of the films at Sundance this year, especially the docs. To this end, I’m hoping this doc focus series provides additional information on the filmmakers and films, and my thoughts on why you should plan on watching them, either in Park City if you’ll be joining us there, or at other festivals at which they go on to screen.
The series begins on Monday with a look at three films in the US Documentary Competition, and will cycle through the remaining nearly forty docs in the all of the festival’s sections in the lead up to Park City.
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On TV: THESE AMAZING SHADOWS
Coming to PBS’ Independent Lens tomorrow, Thursday, December 29: THESE AMAZING SHADOWS
Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton’s doc on the National Film Registry premiered at Sundance nearly a year ago. It went on to tour the festival circuit extensively, as well as to play theatrically in limited engagements.
My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.
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