Category Archives: Sundance

The Sundance Film Festival wraps up with a final full-day of screenings tomorrow, Sunday, January 29, including encores of several of the winning films announced at the awards ceremony earlier tonight. w(n)td will resume regular posting starting Monday, but for now, a list of the awards follows: Continue reading →

The 2017 Sundance Film Festival kicks off tonight, Thursday, January 19, and runs through Sunday, January 29. Because of my responsibilities as a Programming Associate for the festival, w(n)td will be on hiatus for the event’s duration – regular daily weekday posting will not resume until Monday, January 30.

Follow me on Twitter, to keep up with Sundance, and also follow my Sundance 2017 Twitter list to experience the festival through the eyes of this year’s filmmakers.

To catch up with Sundance doc programming, here are links to my series of 2017 Sundance documentary profiles, divided by festival section:

US Documentary Competition
CASTING JONBENET

CHASING CORAL

CITY OF GHOSTS

DINA

DOLORES

THE FORCE

ICARUS

THE NEW RADICAL

NOBODY SPEAK: HULK HOGAN, GAWKER AND TRIALS OF A FREE PRESS

QUEST: THE FURY AND THE SOUND (pictured)

STEP

STRONG ISLAND

TROPHY

UNREST

WATER & POWER: A CALIFORNIA HEIST

WHOSE STREETS?

 

World Cinema Documentary Competition
THE GOOD POSTMAN

IN LOCO PARENTIS (pictured)

IT’S NOT YET DARK

JOSHUA: TEENAGER VS SUPERPOWER

LAST MEN IN ALEPPO

MACHINES

MOTHERLAND

PLASTIC CHINA

RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD

TOKYO IDOLS

WINNIE

THE WORKERS CUP

 

Documentary Premieres
500 YEARS

BENDING THE ARC

CRIES FROM SYRIA

GIVE ME FUTURE

AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER

LEGION OF BROTHERS (pictured)

LONG STRANGE TRIP

OKLAHOMA CITY

RANCHER, FARMER, FISHERMAN

TAKE EVERY WAVE: THE LIFE OF LAIRD HAMILTON

TELL THEM WE ARE RISING: THE STORY OF BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

THIS IS EVERYTHING: GIGI GORGEOUS

TRUMPED: INSIDE THE GREATEST POLITICAL UPSET OF ALL TIME

UNTITLED BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB DOCUMENTARY

 

New Frontier
18 BLACK GIRLS / BOYS AGES 1-18 WHO HAVE ARRIVED AT THE SINGULARITY AND ARE THUS SPIRITUAL MACHINES: $X IN AN EDITION OF $97 QUADRILLION

DID YOU WONDER WHO FIRED THE GUN? (pictured)

WORLD WITHOUT END (NO REPORTED INCIDENTS)

 

 

Midnight
78/52

 

 

 

 

 

Kids
THE MARS GENERATION

 

 

 

 

 

Spotlight
LOOK AND SEE: A PORTRAIT OF WENDELL BERRY

 

 

 

 

 

Special Events

ABSTRACT: THE ART OF DESIGN

THE HISTORY OF COMEDY

HOT GIRLS WANTED: TURNED ON

RISE

TIME: THE KALIEF BROWDER STORY (pictured)

TIME: THE KALIEF BROWDER STORY
A preview of the first two episodes of the new Spike TV docuseries examining a case of wrongful incarceration.

Festival Section:
Special Events
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RISE
Three episodes of the new Viceland docuseries focusing on indigenous resistance.

Festival Section:
Special Events

Special Program:
The New Climate
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HOT GIRLS WANTED: TURNED ON
The online world of porn and its impact on real life is explored in this new Netflix docuseries.

Festival Section:
Special Events

Program:
Docuseries Showcase
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THE HISTORY OF COMEDY
A sneak-preview of two episodes of a new CNN docuseries exploring the genre across historical, social, and political lines.

Festival Section:
Special Events
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ABSTRACT: THE ART OF DESIGN
This new Netflix docuseries provides viewers with an in-depth look at today’s leading designers.

Festival Section:
Special Events

Program:
Docuseries Showcase
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LOOK AND SEE: A PORTRAIT OF WENDELL BERRY
Director Laura Dunn and co-director Jef Sewell profile the outspoken author and environmentalist through his immediate surroundings.

Festival Section:
Spotlight

Special Program:
The New Climate
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THE MARS GENERATION
Michael Barnett checks in with the would-be astronauts of the future.

Festival Section:
Kids
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