Category Archives: Sundance

5 SEASONS OF REVOLUTION
An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Damascus, Syria, Lina starts to report on the events around her until she is compelled to become a war reporter and, later, the unexpected narrator of her own destiny.

Director:
Lina

Producers:
Diana El Jeiroudi

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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BEYOND UTOPIA
Hidden camera footage augments this perilous, high-stakes journey as we embed with families attempting to escape oppression, ultimate revealing a world most of us have never seen.

Director:
Madeleine Gavin

Producers:
Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen, Sue Mi Terry

Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition

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VICTIM/SUSPECT
Investigative journalist Rae de Leon travels nationwide to uncover and examine a shocking pattern: Young women tell the police they’ve been sexually assaulted, but instead of finding justice, they’re charged with the crime of making a false report, arrested, and even imprisoned by the system they believed would protect them.

Director/Producer:
Nancy Schwartzman

Producers:
Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Alice Henty, Amanda Pike, Rachel de Leon

Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition

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THE STROLL
The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. Filmmaker Kristen Lovell, who walked “The Stroll” for a decade, reunites her community to recount the violence, policing, homelessness, and gentrification they overcame to build a movement for transgender rights.

Directors:
Kristen Lovell, Zackary Drucker

Producer:
Matt Wolf

Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition

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A STILL SMALL VOICE
An aspiring hospital chaplain begins a yearlong residency in spiritual care, only to discover that to successfully tend to her patients, she must look deep within herself.

Director/Producer:
Luke Lorentzen

Producer:
Kellen Quinn

Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition

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NAM JUNE PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV
The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who revolutionized the use of technology as an artistic canvas and prophesied both the fascist tendencies and intercultural understanding that would arise from the interconnected metaverse of today’s world.

Director/Producer:
Amanda Kim

Producers:
Jennifer Stockman, David Koh, Amy Hobby, Jesse Wann, Mariko Munro

Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition

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LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING
This celebration of Little Richard reveals the Black queer origins of rock ’n’ roll, finally exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music. Through archival and performance footage, the revolutionary icon’s life unspools with all of its switchbacks and contradictions.

Director/Producer:
Lisa Cortés

Producers:
Robert Friedman, Liz Yale Marsh, Caryn Capotosto

Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition

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JOONAM
Spurred by a provocative family memory and a lifetime of separation from the country her mother left behind, a young filmmaker delves into her mother and grandmother’s complicated pasts and her own fractured Iranian identity.

Director/Producer:
Sierra Urich

Producer:
Keith Wilson

Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition

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GOING VARSITY IN MARIACHI
In the competitive world of high school mariachi, the musicians from the South Texas borderlands reign supreme. Under the guidance of coach Abel Acuña, the teenage captains of Edinburg North High School’s acclaimed team must turn a shoestring budget and diverse crew of inexperienced musicians into state champions.

Directors:
Alejandra Vasquez, Sam Osborn

Producers:
James Lawler, Luis A Miranda Jr, Julia Pontecorvo

Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition

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GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT
Intimate vérité, archival footage, and visually innovative treatments of poetry take us on a journey through the dreamscape of legendary poet Nikki Giovanni as she reflects on her life and legacy.

Directors/Producers:
Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson

Producer:
Tommy Oliver

Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition

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