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Middletown Review: This Is Why We Love Documentaries

by Jason Gorber
January 29, 2025
Reviews/Sundance

Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine's Middletown explores the sparks of curiosity fuelled by a high school English teacher who inspired students to see the world anew through cameras.

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Sundance Announces Documentaries for 2025 Festival

by Pat Mullen
December 11, 2024
News/Sundance

Documentaries announced for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival include the Canadian documentary Endless Cookie and co-production Cutting Through Rocks.

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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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War Game Review: Simulating the Next Insurrection

by Jason Gorber
January 30, 2024
Reviews/Sundance

Thevevents of the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Washington Capitol inspire a simulation to protect democracy's downfall in War Game.

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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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A man is standing on a beach at the edge of the water. He is wearing a light green shirt and has a dark blue backpack.

The Mission Review: Playing Mission Impossible

by Rachel Ho
October 12, 2023
Reviews

The Mission sees Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine investigate the 2018 death of John Chau, who was killed while on mission to the isolated population of North Sentinel Island.

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Mayor Pete Review: Doc Gets Our Vote!

by Pat Mullen
November 8, 2021
Reviews

Jesse Moss follows Pete Buttigieg along his historic campaign as the first openly gay major presidential candidate in Mayor Pete.

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

by Pat Mullen
June 19, 2020
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, 2020
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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Change We Can Believe In

by Andrew McIntosh
October 8, 2019
Essays/Features

Every once in a while, people appear on the political stage with compelling personal narratives and charisma to spare. They’re dedicated and passionate and demonstrate through their actions that they can persevere

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