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Sundance 2020

‘Feels Good Man’ Is a Blistering Debut

by Jason Gorber
September 4, 2020
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Arthur Jones’ colourful

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Report on Sundance Documentaries – Part 8

by Inge Coolsaet
March 1, 2020
Festivals/Sundance

A selection of three works, programmed in the New Frontier and Shorts section of Sundance 2020 brings POV’s reporting on the festival to a close. It showcases the innovative storytelling of three

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Report on Sundance Documentaries – Part 7

by Inge Coolsaet
February 6, 2020
Festivals/Sundance

Powerful forces are at work in this new batch of documentaries, seen and reviewed at the Sundance Film Festival. Backward-looking binaries are dismantled, where art, hope and optimism remain triumphant in the

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Report on Sundance Documentaries – Part 6

by Jason Gorber
February 6, 2020
Festivals/Sundance

Our latest report on Sundance docs includes Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, Assassins, Mucho Mucho Amor, and Into the Deep.

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Report on Sundance Documentaries: Part 5

by Jason Gorber
February 2, 2020
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Our next report from the Sundance Film Festival looks at several heavy-hitters. Two Oscar winners are back on the circuit, while a Canadian co-pro gives an iconic rock band its due and

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Report on Sundance Documentaries: Part 4

by Inge Coolsaet
January 30, 2020
Festivals/Sundance

Since you realized, halfway through the festival, that no amount of coffee will ever be enough to repay your amassed sleep debt, you hope that the next doc might jolt you back

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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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Report on Sundance Docs: Part 2 – ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’

by Jason Gorber
January 28, 2020
Reviews/Sundance

Next up in our report from Sundance, a look at the latest triumph from Cameraperson director Kirsten Johnson - Dick Johnson Is Dead

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Report on Sundance Docs: Part 1

by Jason Gorber
January 27, 2020
Reviews/Sundance

Sundance, the internationally celebrated film festival that has taken place in Utah since 1978, is at an existential crossroads. For documentary fans, however, Sundance remains the greatest collection of premieres on the

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Jerry Rothwell and David Mitchell on ‘The Reason I Jump’ and Rethinking Autism

by Pat Mullen
January 23, 2020
Features/Interviews/Sundance

Author David Mitchell and director Jerry Rothwell discuss their new documentary The Reason I Jump, based on the book by Naoki Higashida.

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