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Sundance 2024 - Page 3

Igualada Review: From Belittling to Empowering

by Courtney Small
January 28, 2024February 4, 2025
Reviews/Sundance

Igualada follows grassroots politician Francia Márquez as she mounts an historic presidential campaign and becomes a voice for the voiceless in Colombia.

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Agent of Happiness Review: Life on a Scale of 1 to Happy

by Pat Mullen
January 27, 2024
Reviews/Sundance

Agent of Happiness observes a man tasked with measuring Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Index while in search of his own contentment.

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Daughters Review: An Exceptional Dance of Truth and Circumstance

by Jason Gorber
January 26, 2024April 26, 2024
Reviews/Sundance

Sundance Audience Award winner Daughters observes daughters of incarcerated individuals as they get ready to dance with their fathers.

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The Battle for Laikipia Review: A Fight Generations in the Making

by Pat Mullen
January 26, 2024January 29, 2024
Reviews/Sundance

The Battle for Laikipia observes a brewing conflict in which Samburu pastoralists and white ranchers in Kenya clash over farmland and a way of life.

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Union Review: David, Goliath, and the High Price of 2-Day Shipping

by Jason Gorber
January 26, 2024
Reviews/Sundance

Brett Story and Stephen Maing chronicles the plight of members of the Amazon Labor Union as they mobilize for workers' rights in Union.

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Porcelain War, A New Kind of Wilderness Top Sundance Doc Winners

by Pat Mullen
January 26, 2024January 30, 2024
Sundance

Porcelain War and A New Kind of Wilderness win the Grand Jury Prizes for documentary at Sundance.

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Nocturnes Review: Or, The Moth Diaries of Climate Change

by Pat Mullen
January 25, 2024
Reviews/Sundance

Nocturnes offers a poetically immersive portrait of nature's delicacy by observing two researchers investigating moths and signs of climate change.

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Power Review: An Incendiary Indictment of the Police State

by Pat Mullen
January 25, 2024
Reviews/Sundance

In Power, Yance Ford interrogates the power of the police state and looks back on the history of systemic racism that enabled it.

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Alexandra Lazarowich’s Winding Path

by Kelly Boutsalis
January 25, 2024
Features/Sundance

Alexandra Lazarowich's short documentary Winding Path premieres at the Sundance Film Festival and shares Jenna Murray's path towards becoming a doctor.

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As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial Review – When Art’s a Crime

by Pat Mullen
January 24, 2024
Reviews/Sundance

As We Speak; Rap Music on Trial follows rapper Kemba as he learns how rap lyrics become evidence in criminal cases against against.

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"Without Debbie, there wouldn't be a Hot Docs." W "Without Debbie, there wouldn't be a Hot Docs."

We're so sorry to hear of the passing of Hot Docs co-founder Debbie Nightingale, who died July 10 at age 71. After getting Hot Docs off the ground and helping it to grow to become North America's largest documentary festival, Nightingale left city life to run the popular Haute Goat farm, which continues to delight attendees. 🐐

Our thoughts are with her family.

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New 'do! @ridm_festival and @forumridm reveal thei New 'do! @ridm_festival and @forumridm reveal their visual identities for 2025. 💇‍♀️

Check out these designs by Juliette Moal and Kaïla Curcio Tremblay. RIDM will announce its full lineup on Oct. 29. The festival runs Nov. 20-30. 📽

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What does it mean to graduate from a university wh What does it mean to graduate from a university while students protest for human rights and the institutions issuing their diplomas fail to hear their concerns?

@nidhilvohra offers a personal reflection on #TheEncampments and graduating amid a movement. 

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If documentary, at its heart, is a practice of imm If documentary, at its heart, is a practice of immersion, does the mean its a perfect fit for VR? 🥽

In an new essay, @silafaen looks at documentaries like #TheRealityOfHope that are produced in the VR world and docs made in the gaming space like #GrandTheftHamlet to consider a new frontier for non-fiction!

📰: Issue 123, on stands now
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Meet Nutty, Ugly, Boris, Cheech, and Chong in an e Meet Nutty, Ugly, Boris, Cheech, and Chong in an exclusive clip introducing the dogs from @endlesscookie_movie! Catch this zany animated doc in theatres June 13. 🍪

Winner of the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature at @hotdocs_.

#EndlessCookie #movies #dogs #film #animation #documentary #Shamattawa
Thank you, @ontarioartscouncil and @bowman_dvw, fo Thank you, @ontarioartscouncil and @bowman_dvw, for supporting the arts in our community! Our OAC grant has allowed us to publish two print issues annually and year-round online stories covering many film festivals and documentary filmmakers in Ontario and across Canada! 🙏 #thankful #ONarts #documentary #magazines
Catch top docs from the circuit at @bluemtnfilmfes Catch top docs from the circuit at @bluemtnfilmfest! 📽

Some POV approved highlights include:
- Come See Me in the Good Light 😭
- Mistress Dispeller ♥️♥️♥️
- Shelf Life 🧀
- Front Row 🩰

And more!

The festival runs May 29 - June 1! #documentary #BMFM2025 #BlueMountain #ComeSeeMeInTheGoodLight #MistressDispeller #FrontRow #movies #film
More awards for documentaries! Assange doc The Six More awards for documentaries! Assange doc The Six Billion Dollar Man wins inaugural Globes-Artemis Rising Docu Award at Cannes in new collaboration between @goldenglobes and @artemisrisingfoundation. What doc do you think would have won last year?🏆 #documentary #Cannes #TheSixBillionDollarMan #film #movies
🎥 We're proud to co-present @speak.documentary, 🎥 We're proud to co-present @speak.documentary, one of the year's top docs, for its Toronto premiere at @insideoutfestival on Saturday, May 24 at TIFF Lightbox. 

The hit documentary about students putting their voices to good use in the national championships for public speaking.

 🎟️🎟️ Want to attend the in-theatre screening of Speak at Inside Out? POV has five pairs of tickets to give away to readers. 

👉All you have to do to enter is answer the following question:

What film is the opening night gala of Inside Out 2025?

a) Cactus Pears
b) Baby
c) Sauna
d) Outerlands

Need a hint? Check out the festival lineup!

📨 Email your answer to info@povmagazine.com with the subject Inside Out.

Contest closes May 21 at noon EST.
Inside Out runs May 23 to June 1.

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