This year’s Indigenous Showcase features a collection of shorts and Billy Luther’s latest documentary, GRAB, focusing on an annual Laguna Pueblo ceremony.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: GRAB
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: MAGIC TRIP
Best Documentary Oscar winner Alex Gibney, together with Co-Director/Editor Alison Elwood close out the Documentary Premieres section with MAGIC TRIP, a hallucinatory look at Ken Kesey’s LSD-charged 1964 crosscountry road trip.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD
Morgan Spurlock is in the inaugural class of Documentary Premieres filmmakers with his latest film, THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD, a self-reflexive look at product placement, branding, and advertising.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: GRANITO
Director Pamela Yates is back at Sundance as part of the Documentary Premieres with her latest film, GRANITO, which looks at the genocide of the Mayan people, and how one of her previous documentaries has played a pivotal role in seeking justice.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: REAGAN
Documentary Premieres is also home to Sundance alumnus Eugene Jarecki, who brings REAGAN, his exploration of the controversial US President, and, most significantly, the mythmaking that’s grown around him since he left the Oval Office.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE INTERRUPTERS
The Documentary Premieres section is the perfect fit for acclaimed returning director Steve James and his newest film, THE INTERRUPTERS, a masterful look at what one organization is doing to bring an end to violence in a beleaguered Chicago.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: REBIRTH
Jim Whitaker’s multiyear portrait of emotional and physical rebuilding following 9/11, REBIRTH, screens in this year’s new Documentary Premieres section.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: BOBBY FISCHER AGAINST THE WORLD
Sundance alumna Liz Garbus is appropriately featured in Documentary Premieres with her newest film, BOBBY FISCHER AGAINST THE WORLD, a comprehensive examination of the renowned chess champion.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: THESE AMAZING SHADOWS
Next in Documentary Premieres is Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton’s THESE AMAZING SHADOWS, on the origins and preservation work of the National Film Registry.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: BECOMING CHAZ
My doc-by-doc look at this year’s Sundance line-up shifts to the new Documentary Premieres section, an addition to the longstanding Premieres category, and featuring the work of established and accomplished documentarians or own bigger subjects. First up is the newest doc from multiple Sundance alumni Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, BECOMING CHAZ, following the former Chastity Bono’s path to his new public identity as a transgender man.
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