RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD
Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana celebrate the unheralded Native roots of popular music.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
Canada
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2017 Sundance Docs in Focus: RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD
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On TV: LIFE, ANIMATED
Coming to A&E tomorrow, Saturday, January 17: LIFE, ANIMATED
Director:
Roger Ross Williams
Premiere:
Sundance 2016, US Documentary Directing Award
Select Festivals:
Nantucket, DOC NYC, True/False, Hot Docs, Tribeca, Full Frame, San Francisco, DocAviv, Transilvania, Sundance London, Los Angeles, Sheffield, Sydney
Notable Recognition:
The doc has been shortlisted for the Academy Awards.
About:
Disney animated films provide a means of communication between a family and their autistic son.
My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.
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2017 Sundance Docs in Focus: PLASTIC CHINA
PLASTIC CHINA
Jiu-liang Wang explores the dead-end lives stuck in a Chinese plastic recycling factory.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
China
Special Program:
The New Climate
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2017 Sundance Docs in Focus: MOTHERLAND
MOTHERLAND
Ramona S Diaz ushers viewers through a maternity hospital like no other.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
USA/Philippines
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2017 Sundance Docs in Focus: MACHINES
MACHINES
Rahul Jain observes the lives of Indian textile factory workers.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
India/Germany/Finland
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On VOD: THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED
New to VOD on Netflix this week: THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED
Director:
Pieter-Jan De Pue
Premiere:
Sundance 2016, World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography
Select Festivals:
Rotterdam, True/False, Karlovy Vary, Hong Kong, Hot Docs, Docs Against Gravity, Biografilm, Sydney, New Zealand, Melbourne, Munich, Camden
About:
A hybrid exploring the wild, wild west of Afghanistan.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
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2017 Sundance Docs in Focus: LAST MEN IN ALEPPO
LAST MEN IN ALEPPO
Director Feras Fayyad and co-director Steen Johannessen chronicle the lives of Aleppo’s White Helmets, the city’s volunteer civil defense team.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
Denmark/Syria
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2017 Sundance Docs in Focus: JOSHUA: TEENAGER VS SUPERPOWER
JOSHUA: TEENAGER VS SUPERPOWER
Joe Piscatella reveals how an unassuming 14-year-old boy defended Hong Kong’s sovereignty from China.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
USA (about Hong Kong)
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2017 Sundance Docs in Focus: IT’S NOT YET DARK
IT’S NOT YET DARK
Frankie Fenton chronicles a filmmaker’s determination to complete his first feature, despite a diagnosis of ALS.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
Ireland
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2017 Sundance Docs in Focus: IN LOCO PARENTIS
IN LOCO PARENTIS
Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane introduce viewers to a singular elementary prep school.
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Country:
Ireland/Spain
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