Category Archives: Sundance

Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, August 8:
NOTES ON BLINDNESS

Directors:
Peter Middleton and James Spinney

Premiere:
Sundance 2016

Select Festivals:
Karlovy Vary, Sheffield, Tribeca, Cleveland, Sydney, Melbourne, New Zealand, Jerusalem, San Francisco

About:
An immersive recreation of a man’s experience of losing his sight.

My pre-Sundance profile of the film may be found here.

Coming to theatres today, Friday, August 4:
IT’S NOT YET DARK

Director:
Frankie Fenton

Premiere:
Galway 2016

Select Festivals:
Sundance, Edinburgh, Thessaloniki Doc, Docs Against Gravity, Sydney, Biografilm

About:
A chronicle of a filmmaker’s determination to complete his first feature, despite a diagnosis of ALS.

My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.

Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, August 4:
STEP

Director:
Amanda Lipitz

Premiere:
Sundance 2017

Select Festivals:
Nantucket, True/False, Seattle, San Francisco, Wisconsin, Montclair

About:
Members of an African-American Baltimore high school stepping team pursue their goals of higher education.

I profiled the doc before Sundance here.

Coming to theatres and to VOD via Netflix tomorrow, Friday, August 4:
ICARUS

Director:
Bryan Fogel

Premiere:
Sundance 2017

Select Festivals:
Sundance London, Sheffield, AFI Docs, Traverse City

About:
An unexpected exposé of a complex doping operation at the heart of Russia’s Olympics program.

I profiled the doc before Sundance here.

Coming to theatres today, Friday, July 28:
AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL

Directors:
Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk

Premiere:
Sundance 2017

Select Festivals:
Nantucket, Cannes, AFI Docs, Biografilm

About:
The follow-up to the Academy Award-winning AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH.

I profiled the doc before Sundance here.

Coming to theatres today, Wednesday, July 26:
RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD

Directors:
Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana

Premiere:
Sundance 2017

Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, Edinburgh, Thessaloniki Doc, Cleveland, Florida, DOXA, DOK Fest Munich, Docs Against Gravity, Seattle, Big Sky Doc, Biografilm, Sydney, AFI Docs, In-Edit, Traverse City

About:
A celebration of the unheralded Native roots of popular music.

I profiled the doc before Sundance here.

Coming to theatres and to VOD via Netflix tomorrow, Friday, July 14:
CHASING CORAL

Director:
Jeff Orlowski

Premiere:
Sundance 2017

Select Festivals:
SXSW, Hot Docs, Sundance London, San Francisco, Boulder, Seattle, Sydney

About:
A race to chronicle the climate change-driven destruction of coral reefs around the world.

I previously profiled the doc before Sundance

Coming to theatres today, Wednesday, July 12:
500 YEARS

Director:
Pamela Yates

Premiere:
Sundance 2017

Select Festivals:
Nantucket, Human Rights Geneva, Human Rights Watch London, Ashland, Full Frame, Seattle, Human Rights Watch New York

About:
The completion of a 35-year trilogy focused on the resistance of Guatemala’s indigenous Mayan population.

I profiled the doc before Sundance here.

Coming to VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, July 11:
ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS

Director:
Michał Marczak

Premiere:
Sundance 2016

Select Festivals:
True/False, IDFA, CPH:DOX, San Francisco, Hot Docs, Karlovy Vary, Sarajevo, Bergen, Zurich, Singapore, Stockholm, Full Frame, Ambulante

About:
A hybrid profile of Warsaw twentysomethings living in the now.

I profiled the film before Sundance here.