Category Archives: Sundance

With the 2014 Sundance Film Festival beginning tonight, Thursday, January 16, and running through Sunday, January 26, my responsibilities as Programming Associate for the festival will keep me from posting here, so w(n)td will be on hiatus for the duration. Normal, daily posting will resume on Monday, January 27.

To keep up with goings on in Park City, follow me on Twitter, or follow my Sundance filmmaker class of 2014 Twitter list.

Finally, before I sign off, here are links to each of my 2014 Sundance documentary profiles, divided by section:

US Documentary Competition

ALIVE INSIDE: A STORY OF MUSIC & MEMORY

ALL THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS

CAPTIVATED: THE TRIALS OF PAMELA SMART

THE CASE AGAINST 8

CESAR’S LAST FAST

DINOSAUR 13

E-TEAM

FED UP

THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY: THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ

IVORY TOWER

MARMATO

NO NO: A DOCKUMENTARY

THE OVERNIGHTERS

PRIVATE VIOLENCE

RICH HILL (pictured)

WATCHERS OF THE SKY

World Cinema Documentary Competition

20,000 DAYS ON EARTH

CONCERNING VIOLENCE (pictured)

THE GREEN PRINCE

HAPPINESS

LOVE CHILD

Mr leos caraX

MY PRAIRIE HOME

THE NOTORIOUS MR BOUT

RETURN TO HOMS

SEPIDEH – REACHING FOR THE STARS

WE COME AS FRIENDS

WEB JUNKIE

Documentary Premieres

THE BATTERED BASTARDS OF BASEBALL

FINDING FELA

FREEDOM SUMMER

HAPPY VALLEY

LAMBERT & STAMP

LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM

LIFE ITSELF (pictured)

MITT

THIS MAY BE THE LAST TIME

TO BE TAKEI

WE ARE THE GIANT

WHITEY: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V JAMES J BULGER

Premieres

NICK OFFERMAN: AMERICAN HAM

Park City at Midnight

UNDER THE ELECTRIC SKY (EDC 2013)

New Frontier

LIVING STARS (pictured)

THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS

THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE

From the Collection

HOOP DREAMS

The final doc profile for this year’s Sundance looks at the nonfiction offering in From the Collection: Steve James’ classic HOOP DREAMS.

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The final New Frontier film* featured in my 2014 Sundance Doc Profiles: THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE, Thomas Allen Harris’ long-in-the-works excavation of black photographic self-representation.

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Shifting over to the festival’s innovative New Frontier section for this last day of 2014 Sundance doc profiles: Sam Green’s latest live documentary, THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS, a meditation on mankind’s sense of self.

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Shifting over to the festival’s innovative New Frontier section for this last day of 2014 Sundance doc profiles: Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat’s LIVING STARS, in which everyday Argentines dance.

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Today’s Sundance profiles wrap with the sole documentary in the Park City at Midnight section: UNDER THE ELECTRIC SKY (EDC 2013), about the legendary electronic music festival.

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Sundance’s Premieres section includes one nonfiction title: NICK OFFERMAN: AMERICAN HAM, a stand-up comedy performance film, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts.

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The final film in this year’s Documentary Premieres welcomes back another Sundance alumnus: Joe Berlinger returns to Park City with WHITEY: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V JAMES J BULGER, an investigation into Boston’s most notorious organized crime figure.

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Tuesday’s Sundance profiles begin with the penultimate entry in the Documentary Premieres: Greg Barker’s WE ARE THE GIANT, an exploration of the revolutionary spirit.

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