Tiffany Shlain’s US Documentary Competition title, CONNECTED, serves, as its tagline tells us, as “a declaration of interdependence.”
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: CONNECTED
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: BUCK
Next up in the 2011 Sundance US Documentary Competition is Cindy Meehl’s BUCK, which profiles real life horse whisperer Buck Brannaman.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: MISS REPRESENTATION
Like PAGE ONE, the next film in the 2011 Sundance US Documentary Competition takes a look at the media: Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s MISS REPRESENTATION, an examination of the impact of the objectification of women in film, TV, and advertising.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: PAGE ONE: A YEAR INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES
The second half of my spotlight on the 2011 Sundance US Documentary Competition titles begins with Andrew Rossi’s PAGE ONE: A YEAR INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES, whose subtitle makes this one pretty self-explanatory.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT
This look at the 2011 Sundance US Documentary Competition reaches the halfway mark with Director Marshall Curry and Co-Director Sam Cullman’s exploration of activism outside the law, IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE REDEMPTION OF GENERAL BUTT NAKED
My rundown of the 2011 Sundance US Documentary Competition continues with Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion’s THE REDEMPTION OF GENERAL BUTT NAKED, a portrait of a born again evangelist who was formerly the greatest mass murderer during Liberia’s brutal civil war.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: HOW TO DIE IN OREGON
Another alumnus, Peter D Richardson, returns to Sundance with his sophomore film, screening in the US Documentary Competition, HOW TO DIE IN OREGON, a poignant and affecting look at individuals facing terminal illnesses and their desire to choose the terms of their own deaths.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE LAST MOUNTAIN
Bill Haney’s look at the controversial issue of Appalachian mountaintop coal removal, THE LAST MOUNTAIN, is the next US Documentary Competition title in my film-by-film look at the upcoming Sundance doc slate.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: WE WERE HERE
My look at Sundance 2011’s US Documentary Competition title continues with returning filmmakers, Director David Weissman and Co-Director Bill Weber, and their new project, WE WERE HERE, which looks at the early impact of AIDS on San Francisco through the stories of some of the men, and one woman, who lived through the epidemic.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: CRIME AFTER CRIME
Continuing my film-by-film look at the documentaries of Sundance 2011 is US Documentary Competition title CRIME AFTER CRIME by Yoav Potash, an emotional five-year chronicle of justice long delayed for a battered woman pushed to murder.
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