Wrapping up today’s profiles is the penultimate film in the 2013 Sundance US Documentary Competition: Morgan Neville’s TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM, a celebration of music’s largely unheralded backup singers.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: NARCO CULTURA
Heading into the final stretch of this year’s US Documentary Competition: Shaul Schwarz’s NARCO CULTURA, about the impact of Mexico’s drug wars on Mexican and Latino-American pop culture.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: MANHUNT: THE SEARCH FOR OSAMA BIN LADEN
The 2013 Sundance US Documentary Competition sees the premiere of alum Greg Barker’s newest film: MANHUNT: THE SEARCH FOR OSAMA BIN LADEN, tracing the CIA’s efforts to stop the al Qaeda mastermind.
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Happy New Year!
I hope everyone had a safe and fun New Year’s Eve last night. In recognition of the holiday, w(n)td is taking a break from regular posting until tomorrow, when the film-by-film profiles of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival documentary line-up will resume. The US Documentary Competition will wrap up later this week – if you missed any, the series starts here. Happy 2013!
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: LIFE ACCORDING TO SAM
Sundance 2013 welcomes back another pair of alumni filmmakers with the next US Documentary Competition title: Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine’s LIFE ACCORDING TO SAM, about one driven family’s mission to combat the rare disease threatening their young son.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: INEQUALITY FOR ALL
Next up in the 2013 Sundance US Documentary Competition: Jacob Kornbluth’s INEQUALITY FOR ALL, in which former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains the reasons for the widening gap between America’s 1% and the rest of us.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: GOD LOVES UGANDA
Continuing my spotlight on the second half of the 2013 Sundance US Documentary Competition: GOD LOVES UGANDA, Roger Ross Williams’ exploration of American evangelicals’ coordinated ideological campaign in Uganda.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: GIDEON’S ARMY
Dawn Porter’s profile of three committed but often overwhelmed public defenders is the next film in my overview of Sundance’s US Documentary Competition: GIDEON’S ARMY
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: DIRTY WARS
My look at the 2013 Sundance US Documentary Competition reaches the halfway point: Richard Rowley’s DIRTY WARS follows investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill as he uncovers the existence of America’s secret wars.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: CUTIE AND THE BOXER
My rundown of the 2013 Sundance US Documentary Competition continues with Zachary Heinzerling’s directorial debut: CUTIE AND THE BOXER, the decades-long story of the personal and professional struggles of a married pair of Japanese artists in NYC.
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