Documentary

“THE FLAW” | co-writer-director, David Sington

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 9:45 pm — Broadway Centre Cinemas V, Salt Lake City] If I am completely honest, I would say that the biggest surprise was getting into competition at Sundance! I took on The Flaw because it seemed like a really difficult project to pull off. The brief was to make a film about the fundamental underlying cause of the present economic crisis. The first problem was therefore to identify what that was, to get beyond the stories of Wall Street shenanigans (which were obviously a big part of what went wrong, but equally clearly not the […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011
“THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 | writer-director, Goran Hugo Olsson

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 9:00 pm — Holiday Village Cinema IV] To me the biggest surprise in making The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 was meeting one of my subjects: Angela Davis. I had admired her for so many years from seeing her on TV and her biography. The footage that we assembled in the film is something that no one outside of Swedish television had seen before. While watching those segments from years ago, I was moved by her interviews and the way she spoke so directly and with knowledge and a subtlety that was so powerful. Then, when I actually […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011
“IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT | director, Marshall Curry

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 3:00 pm — Temple Theatre] The making of this film has been a series of surprises. The first surprise hit when my wife came home from work and said that four federal agents had come into her office that day and arrested one of her employees. He was accused of burning down two timber facilities in Oregon four years earlier when he was part of the Earth Liberation Front, and if found guilty, he would go to prison for the rest of his life with no chance of parole. That seemed like a surprising sentence […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011
“SENNA” | director, Asif Kapadia

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 6:00 pm — Holiday Village Cinema IV] The biggest surprise with Senna has been the reaction from audiences who have never heard of Ayrton Senna before: people who have no interest in sports, who literally run from the house if motor racing is on. I wanted our film to appeal to exactly those people, but to actually have them respond in such a positive way has been wonderful. Friends of mine, who detest sport of all kinds, who couldn’t understand why I wanted to make this film, have been in touch after seeing Senna and […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011
“THE LAST MOUNTAIN” | co-writer-director, Bill Haney

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 5:30 pm — Prospector Square Theatre] Almost 30 years ago I began my professional life as an inventor, and the first device I worked on was a system for reducing the air-pollution effects caused by burning coal. So when I began work on The Last Mountain, a tale about the struggles of a small community fighting against dominant power of a local coal-mining operation, I was sure I understood the dust-smeared consequences of burning coal. But at every turn I was surprised, at the scale and scope of the coal industry’s black smudged paw across […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011
“BOBBY FISCHER AGAINST THE WORLD” DIRECTOR LIZ GARBUS

For the lucky few who get in, Sundance isn’t just a festival — it’s a resource. Over the years, the festival has nurtured the careers of a number of documentary filmmakers who went on to become what senior programmer David Courier recently termed “master filmmakers” — filmmakers so good and so respected that the festival had to create the out-of-competition category, “Doc Premieres,” to make sure their work didn’t overshadow the greener directors. It should come as no surprise to anyone in the documentary community to find Liz Garbus’ name in a category reserved for such filmmakers. Garbus’ history with […]
by Mary Anderson Casavant on Jan 21, 2011
“BUCK” | director, Cindy Meehl

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 2:30 pm — Library Center Theatre] What I have found most surprising about my film Buck is how it appears to affect people in so many different ways. As I started this journey to tell Buck’s story, I thought it would be about changing people’s perceptions about how they treat and train horses, as well as how to deal with life’s difficulties with a bit of cowboy wisdom. However as the film was completed and we started test screening it for a wide cross section of friends and associates, I was pleasantly surprised that we […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011
“The Green Wave” | writer-director, Ali Samadi Ahadi

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 3:00 pm — Holiday Village Cinema IV] Well the biggest surprise was, that it worked out! Really! Just imagine: Our goal was to make a film about a country we were not able to travel to anymore, about an event which had taken place in the past. Without having proper footage, we decided to produce 42 minutes of animation and mix them with real footage we got from 250 different cameras and cell phones. And all of that, from financing to finalizing the film within 10 months! That is a challenge I would say. And […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 20, 2011
“CONNECTED: AN AUTOBLOGOGRAPHY ABOUT LOVE, DEATH & TECHNOLOGY” | co-writer-director, Tiffany Shlain

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 12:00 pm — Temple Theatre] When I set out to make Connected, the original tagline was A Declaration of Interdependence. I set out to make an insightful/funny/provocative film that looks at what it means to be connected in the 21st century by exploring the history of interdependence and how it has changed over time. That was my pitch, that was our focus, that’s the film I thought I was going to make. At one point, we had an 80-minute rough cut and I watched it in one sitting (one rarely gets to do that on […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 20, 2011
“PROJECT NIM” DIRECTOR JAMES MARSH

During the past decade, some of the movies’ most crowd-pleasing moments can be found not in ballyhooed Hollywood blockbusters but in documentaries. Doc like Spellbound, Anvil: The Story of Anvil, and The King of Kong: A Fist Full of Quarters are best seen with an audience ready to cheer. The most dazzling example of this trend just might be James Marsh’s Man on Wire, the exhilarating story of Phillipe Petit, a small Frenchman with big dreams. Marsh recounts how the daredevil Petit strung a wire between New York’s Twin Towers and then proceeded to dance between the two skyscrapers — perhaps the […]
by Mary Anderson Casavant on Jan 20, 2011

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