For Netflix Documentaries, There’s No Place Like Sundance

Ten years after The Square, an acquisition that put Netflix documentaries on the map, the streamer is back at the 40th Sundance Film Festival with an eye towards acquisitions and two very different originals. Yance Ford’s latest, Power, an inquiry into the evolution of policing in America that had its world premiere Thursday night in Park City, Utah. Bao Nguyen’s The Greatest Night in Pop, about the making of the charity anthem We Are The World, debuts Friday before streaming on Jan. 29.

AP, Frontline Documentary ‘20 Days In Mariupol’ To Make World Premiere At Sundance

The new feature film “20 Days in Mariupol” from The Associated Press and Frontline, the award-winning PBS documentary series housed at WGBH Boston, will make its world premiere at the […]

NBC News Studios And CNN Films Accepted Into Sundance

Sundance Scraps In-Person Program For Full Virtual Festival

The in-person Park City component of the Sundance Film Festival will not be occurring for the second year in a row, with the near 40-year-old cinema event to remain virtual for its Jan. 20-30 run. This was always Plan B for Sundance in the face of an unpredictable pandemic. “The Festival’s in-person Utah elements will be moving online this year,” read a statement from Sundance today.

Sundance Announces New TV-Centric Section

With six months to go until the start of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, the Robert Redford-founded snowy shindig today revealed a new look, a new award and a new selection that spotlights the ever growing presence of television at the Utah gathering.

Couric Makes Documentary Debut At Sundance

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) – Along with her soon-to-end daytime talk show, fall engagement and recent move from TV to the web as Yahoo’s global anchor, Katie Couric also made […]