My doc-by-doc look at this year’s Sundance line-up shifts to the new Documentary Premieres section, an addition to the longstanding Premieres category, and featuring the work of established and accomplished documentarians or own bigger subjects. First up is the newest doc from multiple Sundance alumni Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, BECOMING CHAZ, following the former Chastity Bono’s path to his new public identity as a transgender man.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: BECOMING CHAZ
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: SENNA
Wrapping up this year’s World Cinema Competition is Asif Kapadia’s SENNA, from the UK, the story of the eponymous three-time Formula One world champion.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: PROJECT NIM
Heading into the homestretch of this year’s World Cinema Competition is Academy Award-winning British director James Marsh’s portrait of the simian subject a unique 1970s scientific experiment, PROJECT NIM.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: POSITION AMONG THE STARS
The third of three films in the World Cinema Documentary Competition that also screened at IDFA, Leonard Retel Helmrich’s POSITION AMONG THE STARS, from The Netherlands, concludes his three-film portrait of a poor Indonesian family and how they are coping with modernization.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: SHUT UP LITTLE MAN! AN AUDIO MISADVENTURE
The World Cinema Documentary Competition heads to San Francisco, care of Australian director Matthew Bate, with his SHUT UP LITTLE MAN! AN AUDIO MISADVENTURE, the behind-the-scenes story of a worldwide viral audio cult phenomenon.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: FAMILY PORTRAIT IN BLACK & WHITE
The next film in the World Cinema Documentary Competition comes from Canada – Julia Ivanova’s exploration of an unusually large Ukrainian foster family, FAMILY PORTRAIT IN BLACK & WHITE.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE FLAW
The second half of this spotlight on the World Cinema Documentary Competition begins with David Sington’s THE FLAW, from the UK, which offers a comprehensive analysis of the US financial crisis.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975
This film-by-film look at the World Cinema Documentary competition reaches the halfway point with Göran Hugo Olsson’s Swedish/US co-production, THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975, an astute condensation of pivotal years in the movement from a non-American viewpoint.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE GREEN WAVE
The second of three IDFA titles to compete for the World Cinema Documentary jury prize is Ali Samadi Ahadi’s story of the Iranian political revolution of 2009, THE GREEN WAVE, a German/Iran co-production.
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indieWIRE @ Hulu Docs: Sundance Flashback, Part One
Since before the end of the year, this blog has been counting down to Sundance – so when it came time to curate another round of selections for Hulu’s Documentaries page for indieWIRE, I decided to look backwards to past films that screened in Park City. For the next two weeks or so, you can enjoy a varied collection of Sundance alumni docs for free!
For more information about the selections, take a look at my iW article.
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