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And a few of these we are lucky to have seen in advance. Sundance this year is, of course, still in Park City, even as the nearly year-old festival eyes potentially another location beginning in , with Salt Lake City, Cincinnati, and Boulder as the contenders. And those distributors headed to Utah searching for buys have an eclectic mix on their hands and much to sort through.
This expose of the brutal Alabama state prison system, a six-year investigative project made with co-director Charlotte Kaufman, deploys video footage taken on the contraband phones of the inmates themselves, as well as interviews by the filmmakers. News channel, with Jane Levy as an out-of-water fake war zone correspondent. The first episode shows how the pandemic pushed school parents apart over mask-wearing and school closures. Things got worse from there.
Instead of social media, they have sled dogs. Instead of friend groups, they have… sled dogs. The film promises to dig into the Pine Ridge shootout where Peltier was accused of killing two FBI agents, and the ongoing attempt to set Peltier free, all in the context of the year continuum of Indigenous resistance. All three actors play the younger versions of their characters, including Raiff and Reinhart as grade schoolers. Raiff directed all the episodes, and his production company Small Ideas, independently financed the entire eight-episode season, now looking for a small-screen home when the first four episodes are unveiled on the Sundance big screen.
The film wrapped production last summer and is already a hot ticket as one of the potentially splashiest buys out of the festival. Brooklynites navigating personal and professional lives amid a rapidly changing city may suggest familiar terrain. And who, however ruinously, you want to become. His romance with Destiny Destiny Checo introduces new challenges when she crashes at his family home. Vargas blends improvisation with street-casted actors to paint a lively portrait of the local Dominican American community in this NEXT entry that should generate buzz for its confident filmmaking.
