Sundance
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Questlove Was Stunned by the 50-Year-Old Hidden Footage That Inspired ‘Summer of Soul’ (Video)
“I’d like to think of myself as somewhere between a savant and a sage of music history, how come I never heard of this thing?” Questlove tells TheWrap’s Steve Pond
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‘Indigenizing’ Hollywood: How the Sundance Native Lab Is Flipping an Outdated Script
“Hollywood is realizing that the ‘I’ in BIPOC stands for ‘indigenous,’” Sundance Native film program leader Bird Runningwater says
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‘The Sparks Brothers’ Film Review: Edgar Wright Makes Playful Documentary About Elusive Band Sparks
Wright tackles the idiosyncratic, influential band without ever giving away too much or losing an air of mystery
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The Incredible Journey of Chloé Zhao and Other Reasons to Celebrate Diversity at the Oscars
For those who still think the glass is half-empty, I see it filling up
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‘The Courier’ Director Dominic Cooke on How His Film Differs From Other Espionage Movies (Video)
Sundance 2020: “I think it kind of takes you into a very different place in terms of the espionage movie,” Cooke tells TheWrap’s Brian Welk
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‘Land’ Film Review: Robin Wright Relies on Nature for Her Subdued Directorial Debut
Sundance 2021: The landscape overpowers the screenplay in this tale of a woman learning to live in the wilderness
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Edgar Wright’s ‘The Sparks Brothers’ Acquired by Focus Features
Documentary about the Los Angeles pop duo Sparks made its debut at this year’s Sundance
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A24 Picks Up Ninja Thyberg’s ‘Pleasure’ About Los Angeles Porn Industry
Sundance 2021: Distributor will release an uncensored version alongside an R-rated version later this year
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‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Star LaKeith Stanfield Was Reluctant to Play Black Panthers’ FBI Mole: ‘F– This Dude’ (Video)
Sundance 2021: “I didn’t like what he did, I had a lot of judgments,” the actor tells TheWrap
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‘A Glitch in the Matrix’ Director on Why Questioning Reality Became Such a White Male Thing (Video)
Sundance 2021: “It might be that from our privilege, we may feel like there’s fewer ramifications for talking about this publicly,” Rodney Ascher says
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‘Bring Your Own Brigade’ Director Says Climate Change Isn’t the Only Reason Wildfires Are Worse (Video)
Sundance 2021: Lucy Walker’s documentary explores how humans impact wildfires by how we prepare for and respond to them
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Questlove’s ‘Summer of Soul’ Doc Sells to Searchlight, Hulu
Sundance 2021: Doc delves into the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival that drew over 300,000 attendees
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‘Sabaya’ Director Says Shooting in Syria Was So Dangerous He Did It Solo (Video)
Sundance 2021: Documenting the rescue of Yazidi women enslaved by ISIS, Hogir Hirori often thought: “Should I be doing this, is it worth it?”
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‘At the Ready’ Filmmakers Wanted a Doc About Border Patrol Trainees With a ‘Shelf Life’ Post-Trump (Video)
Sundance 2021: Documentary follows students training to become Border Patrol officers in Texas
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Sundance 2021: What Has Sold So Far, From ‘CODA’ to ‘Flee’ (Photos)
Other big deals were made for films such as “Passing,” “Cryptozoo” and “Ailey”
