Sundance 2011 begins this week! My film-by-film profiling of each of this year’s docs wrapped up today as I arrived in Park City in my role of Programming Associate for the festival. If you’ll be at the fest, you’ll have plenty of great new films to watch, but if you can’t make it out there this year, I’ve curated a new batch of past Sundance films for Hulu’s Documentaries page for indieWIRE – and they’re all free.
For more information about the selections, take a look at my iW article.
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The 42nd and final entry in my doc-by-doc look at the 2011 Sundance line-up has already generated a lot of attention: Kevin Macdonald’s LIFE IN A DAY, a YouTube user-generated record of July 24, 2010 around the world.
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The second of two documentaries in this year’s New Frontier’s on-screen offerings is John Akomfrah’s THE NINE MUSES, a poetic, experimental meditation on the myth of Odysseus, homecoming, and identity.
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Lynn Hershman Leeson brings one of two documentaries to this year’s New Frontier on-screen offerings, !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION, a decades-in-the-making examination of the development of feminist art in the US.
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Alex Stapleton has the only documentary in Park City at Midnight, CORMAN’S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL, a love letter to the quintessential independent filmmaker behind such classics as THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, HOUSE OF USHER, THE WILD ANGELS, and DEATH RACE 2000.
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This year’s Indigenous Showcase features a collection of shorts and Billy Luther’s latest documentary, GRAB, focusing on an annual Laguna Pueblo ceremony.
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Best Documentary Oscar winner Alex Gibney, together with Co-Director/Editor Alison Elwood close out the Documentary Premieres section with MAGIC TRIP, a hallucinatory look at Ken Kesey’s LSD-charged 1964 crosscountry road trip.
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Morgan Spurlock is in the inaugural class of Documentary Premieres filmmakers with his latest film, THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD, a self-reflexive look at product placement, branding, and advertising.
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Director Pamela Yates is back at Sundance as part of the Documentary Premieres with her latest film, GRANITO, which looks at the genocide of the Mayan people, and how one of her previous documentaries has played a pivotal role in seeking justice.
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Documentary Premieres is also home to Sundance alumnus Eugene Jarecki, who brings REAGAN, his exploration of the controversial US President, and, most significantly, the mythmaking that’s grown around him since he left the Oval Office.
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