(Director: Sacha Jenkins) – The history of hip-hop fashion from its birth in the South Bronx to its rise as a billion-dollar global industry, Fresh Dressed is supported by rich archival materials, in-depth interviews with individuals crucial to the evolution, and the outsiders who study and admire them. But success and excess among its brilliant and subversive contributors begins to challenge its existence.įresh Dressed / U.S.A. (Director: Douglas Tirola) – Three Harvard graduates start the first national humor magazine for adults, launching the careers of some of Hollywood”s most legendary talent. (Director: Stanley Nelson) – This feature-length documentary tells of the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20 th century's most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world's attention for nearly 50 years.ĭRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD: The Story of the National Lampoon / U.S.A. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution / U.S.A. But the film itself is only part of the story. (Director: Brad Besser) – A chance meeting in a parking lot in 1979 between filmmaker Trent Harris and a young man from Beaver, Utah, inspired the creation of an underground film that is now known as Beaver Trilogy. Here's the complete list of out-of-competition Documentary Premieres:īeaver Trilogy Part IV / U.S.A. Other Special Event subjects include Kevin Pollack's “Misery Loves Comedy” and the independent animated series “Animals.” “Mitt” was mentioned above and director Greg Whiteley is back at Sundance with “Most Likely To Succeed,” which looks at failures in 21st century education.Īnd if that's not enough, Sundance will also have documentary premieres focusing on The National Lampoon (Douglas Tirola's “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead”), the Black Panther Party (Stanley Nelson's “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution”), hip-hop fashion (Sacha Jenkins' “Fresh Dressed”) and masculinity (Jennifer Siebel Newsom's “The Mask You Live In”).Īnother documentary of sorts, the HBO documentary series “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” from director Andrew Jarecki (“Capturing the Friedmans”) will be the subject of one of five Sunday Special Events taking place throughout the Festival. Even without the UVA/Rolling Stone scandal in the news, it'd be easy to anticipate outrage brewing around Dick's follow-up to “The Invisible War.” Institutional struggles are also at the heart of Kirby Dick's “The Hunting Ground,” which takes on the couldn't-be-more-timely topic of rape crimes on American college campuses. Berg, an Oscar nominee for “Deliver Us From Evil,” was at Sundance with “West of Memphis” in 2012. Īlso tackling the religious fringe, and sure to generate controversy in Utah, is Amy Berg's “Prophet's Prey,” focusing on Warren Jeffs, prophet in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It practically wouldn't be Sundance without a film from Alex Gibney and the Oscar winner is bringing “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” which focuses on eight former members of the Church of Scientology. Sundance regular Liz Garbus (“The Farm: Angola, USA”) is taking the previously vacant US documentary Day One Film slot with “What Happened, Miss Simone?” The documentary looks singer and activist Nina Simone was recently acquired by Netflix, which had “Mitt” in an out-of-competition slot at last year's Festival.Īlso coming from a Sundance favorite and also with TV distribution already in place is HBO's “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,” an authorized biopic of the Nirvana frontman that features Frances Bean Cobain as an executive producer and is directed by Brett Morgen (“The Kid Stays in the Picture”). It's a group of films from some of documentary cinema's biggest names and, unsurprisingly, from some of Sundance's most frequent attendees. On Monday (December 8), Sundance announced 13 documentaries that will be premiering out of competition at the Festival, which runs from January 22 to February 1 in Park City. Kurt Cobain, Nina Simone and Tig Notaro are among the big names getting documentary treatment at this January's Sundance Film Festival.
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