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Boys State

Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss on Their ‘Sibling Film’ Girls State

by Jason Gorber
June 20, 2024
Features/Interviews

An interview with Girls State directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss on continuing the story of their Emmy winning documentary Boys State.

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Girls State Review: A Vital ‘Sister Film’

by Jason Gorber
January 18, 2024
Reviews/Sundance

Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine follow their Sundance award-winner Boys State with the equally vital sister film Girls State.

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Sundance Announces Line-up for 2024 Festival

by Pat Mullen
December 6, 2023
Sundance

Sundance announces 2024 line-up including the opening night film Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story.

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Pianoforte Review: Competition Doc Will Leave You Spellbound

by Jason Gorber
January 23, 2023
Reviews/Sundance

Sundance documentary Pianoforte follows the competition formula smartly with its portrait of an international Chopin piano summit.

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The Oscar Documentary Races: Will Win/Should Win

by Pat Mullen Marc Glassman
April 21, 2021August 7, 2021
Features

This year’s insanely long awards season is finally over. For the documentary crowd, the Oscar race basically begins at Sundance a full year before the show. This year, however, the pandemic means

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The Best Documentaries of 2020

by Pat Mullen Marc Glassman
December 24, 2020August 10, 2021
Features

The best documentaries of 2020 include Boys State, The Viewing Booth, Collective, Pahokee, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, 76 Days, The Truffle Hunters, and Wintopia.

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Could This Be the Year of the Documentary Best Picture Oscar Nominee?

by Pat Mullen
August 13, 2020August 15, 2021
Features

No documentary has every been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Could that change in 2020 as docs provide the windows into the world that we're all craving right now?

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Political Theatre: Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine on Their Sundance Winner Boys State

by Pat Mullen
June 19, 2020August 14, 2021
Interviews

"The great virtue of the program is that the counsellors step back and let the boys run the show, which is why it went off the rails in 2017. We’d done that

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Report on Sundance Documentaries: Part 3

by Jason Gorber
January 30, 2020January 9, 2024
Festivals/Sundance

The gulf in calibre between the non-fiction and fiction films at Sundance continues, with some truly astonishing documentaries taking the lead through generating headlines all over the world, like Boys State and

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