Beginning the second half of the 2012 Documentary Premieres: Mark Kitchell’s expansive chronicle of environmental activism, A FIERCE GREEN FIRE
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: A FIERCE GREEN FIRE
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: ETHEL
Marking the end of the first half of this year’s Documentary Premieres: Rory Kennedy’s portrait of her mother, ETHEL
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE D WORD: UNDERSTANDING DYSLEXIA
An often misunderstood learning disability is the focus of the next title screening in Documentary Premieres: James Redford’s THE D WORD: UNDERSTANDING DYSLEXIA
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: BONES BRIGADE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Next in Documentary Premieres: BONES BRIGADE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Stacy Peralta’s look back at his seminal 1980s skateboarding team.
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: ABOUT FACE
This doc-by-doc look at this year’s Sundance line-up shifts to the Documentary Premieres section: ABOUT FACE, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ look at the original supermodels and their thoughts on beauty and aging.
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN
Wrapping up this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition: Swedish/UK film SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN, Malik Bendjelloul’s investigation into a musical mystery.
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: PUTIN’S KISS
Nearing the end of the World Cinema Documentary Competition brings us to the fourth of four films in the section that also screened at IDFA: PUTIN’S KISS, Danish director Lise Birk Pedersen’s cautionary look at youth, idealism, nationalism, and politics in Russia.
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: PAYBACK
Heading into the homestretch with the World Cinema Documentary Competition: PAYBACK, from Canada’s Jennifer Baichwal, adapts Margart Atwood’s bestseller by taking a multi-tiered approach to exploring the concept of debt.
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2012 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE LAW IN THESE PARTS
The World Cinema Documentary Competition heads to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, care of Israeli director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz: THE LAW IN THESE PARTS explores the unique system of military law that has been developed to adjudicate an occupied population.
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On DVD: LIFE 2.0
Coming to DVD next Tuesday, January 17: LIFE 2.0
Jason Spingarn-Koff’s documentary on Second Life premiered at Sundance in 2010, and went on to screen at SXSW, Boston, San Francisco, CPH:DOX, and New Orleans, among others. Oprah’s OWN Documentary Club hosted the broadcast premiere last Summer after a limited theatrical run in the Spring.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
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