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Sundance US Documentary Competition - Page 2

Skywalkers: A Love Story Review – Romance on the Rooftops

by Jason Gorber
January 29, 2024July 18, 2024
Reviews/Sundance

Skywalkers: A Love Story offers a thrilling romance about rooftoppers taking their passion to the extreme.

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A Tale of Two A.I. Documentaries at Sundance

by Pat Mullen
January 29, 2024January 8, 2025
Reviews/Sundance

Two documentaries at Sundance, Love Machina and Eternal You, explored questions of artificial intelligence with limited success.

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Every Little Thing Review: Doc Will Make Bird Nerds of Us All

by Pat Mullen
January 28, 2024January 2, 2025
Reviews/Sundance

Every Little Thing introduces audiences to Terry Masear and her efforts to rehabilitate wounded birds at the Los Angeles Hummingbird Rescue.

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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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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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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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Porcelain War Review: The Fragile Nature of Conflict

by Courtney Small
January 23, 2024
Reviews/Sundance

In Sundance doc Porcelain War, Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev capture the stories of three artists on the front lines of the war in Ukraine.

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Gaucho Gaucho Review: Nostalgia for a Fading Way of Life

by Jason Gorber
January 23, 2024
Reviews/Sundance

With Gaucho Gaucho, Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw of The Truffle Hunters fame pay tribute to a way of life riding off into the sunset.

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Sugarcane Review: Bringing the Past to Light

by Jason Gorber
January 22, 2024
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In Sugarcane, Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie share the stories of an Indigenous community grappling with the ongoing trauma of residential schools.

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Frida Review: “I Paint My Own Reality”

by Barbara Goslawski
January 18, 2024
Reviews/Sundance

life and work of painter Frida Kahlo is the subject of this artistic profile by Carla Gutierriez in her directorial debut.

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Our @tiff_net at 50 retro continues! 10 more docs Our @tiff_net at 50 retro continues! 10 more docs that helped define the festival's  first 50 years:
📽: Sharkwater (TIFF '06)
📽: Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (TIFF '92)
📽: Manufactured Landscapes (TIFF '06)
📽: Hoop Dreams (TIFF '94)
📽: Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (TIFF '15)
📽: No Sad Songs (TIFF '85)
📽: From the Sky Down (TIFF '11)
📽: Attica (TIFF '21)
📽: Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa (TIFF '23)
📽: Leviathan (TIFF '85)

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📰: @hotdocs_ announces Gabor Pertic as Lead Pro 📰: @hotdocs_ announces Gabor Pertic as Lead Programmer, Hot Docs Festival. Doc Soup series is also set to return in Oct. with Sundance hit #TheLibrarians.

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/gabor-pertic-named-lead-programmer-hot-docs-festival/

#Documentary #Toronto #hotdocs
As we count down to #TIFF50, our writers pick 50 d As we count down to #TIFF50, our writers pick 50 docs that defined the first 50 years of @tiff_net!

Among the highlights:
📽 Harlan County USA (TIFF '76)
📽 Stop Making Sense (TIFF '84 & '23)
📽 Comic Book Confidential (TIFF '88)
📽 Roger & Me (TIFF '89)
📽 Pina (TIFF '11)
📽 The Act of Killing (TIFF '12)
📽 I Am Not Your Negro (TIFF '16)
📽 @freesolofilm (TIFF '18)
📽 @thebandfilm (TIFF '19)
📽 @tokillatigerdoc (TIFF '22)

What are some of your favourites?

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/50-docs-that-defined-tiff-looking-back-at-the-festival-of-festivals/

#Documentary #TIFF #movies #film
How does a community come together amid tragedy? How does a community come together amid tragedy?

@ibopwebop tells @truedaley about telling the story of Nicholas Gibbs and shedding light on local issues in Montreal. 

Now online from issue #123!

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/night-watches-us-a-father-remembered/

#Documentary #BlackLivesMatter #NicholasGibbs #movies #interviews #Montreal
Gen AI is flooding our screens. What does that mea Gen AI is flooding our screens. What does that mean for #documentary? 

@nidhilvohra looks at Gen AI in filmmaking and considers it from the pov of ethics, labour, and environmental impact. 🖲

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/does-generative-artificial-intelligence-represent-reality-in-filmmaking/

#AI #GENAI #filmmaking #movies
Now online from #POV123, @smallmind1978 examines h Now online from #POV123, @smallmind1978 examines how a cohort of Black filmmakers explores diverse canvases for storytelling.

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/shifting-forms-black-auteurs-explore-diverse-canvases/

📷: @blknws: Terms and Conditions (coming to #tiff50!)

#Documentary #film #movies #blknws
New hat! Toronto's double Michelin-starred omakase New hat! Toronto's double Michelin-starred omakase chef Masaki Saito graces the cover of #POV124 as our new issue heads to the printer before STILL SINGLE premieres at @tiff_net 🍣 

Here's a taste of what's inside our new issue. #Subscribe today to read it! https://povmagazine.com/issue-124-fall-winter-2025/

🙏 Thank you to all our writers who contributed to this issue, and everyone who helped make it happen, and especially to @telefilm_canada for sponsoring this issue and our online #tiff50 coverage!

#documentary #film #movies #stillsingle #masakisaito #food #tiff
"With Powwow, something that’s really special is "With Powwow, something that’s really special is that it is such a communal event, but also it is quite an individual journey."

@bird.grl tells @nidhilvohra about the personal and collective power of #Powwow and her documentary #UnderTheArbor, now streaming on @cbcgem. 🪶

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/how-under-the-arbor-celebrates-the-collective-spirit-of-powwow/

#documentary #film #movies #Indigenous #interviews
"I am a single mom, and I understood that there wa "I am a single mom, and I understood that there was a complicated relationship with his mother. I really wanted to tell an intimate family story."

Amy Berg tells @_rachelkh about her approach to telling #JeffBuckley's story through the women in his life in @itsneverovermovie. 

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/amy-berg-tells-jeff-buckleys-story-through-women-who-knew-him-best/

📽: opens at @hotdocs_ this weekend!
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