The next previous Sundance Movie Competition documentaries are scheduled for launch this month:
>February 2
On TV & Streaming: Paramount+ with Showtime
KOKOMO CITY
Sundance 2023
Director:
D Smith
About:
4 Black transgender intercourse employees discover the dichotomy between the Black neighborhood and themselves, whereas confronting points lengthy prevented.
>February 20
On VOD
I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE
Sundance 2022
Director:
Reid Davenport
About:
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outdoors his Oakland house, a disabled filmmaker launches into an unflinching meditation on freakdom, (in)visibility, and the pursuit of particular person company.
>February 27
Streaming: Paramount+
AS WE SPEAK
Sundance 2024
Director:
JM Harper
About:
Bronx rap artist Kemba explores the rising weaponization of rap lyrics in america prison justice system and overseas — revealing how legislation enforcement has quietly used inventive creation as proof in prison instances for many years.
>February 27
On TV: HBO
GOD SAVE TEXAS: HOMETOWN PRISON
Sundance 2024
Director:
Richard Linklater
About:
Three administrators supply their distinctive and private views on their dwelling state of Texas, creating vivid portraits of a state that mirrors america’ previous, current, and future. Impressed by the ebook God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright.
Huntsville, Texas sits on the coronary heart of an expansive jail industrial complicated. But, for a lot of residents, these prisons exist in one other realm, disconnected from their lives. Richard Linklater revisits his hometown to discover its various inhabitants, portray a vibrant portrait that encapsulates the prison justice system of Texas.
>February 28
On TV: HBO
GOD SAVE TEXAS: LA FRONTERA
Sundance 2024
Director:
Iliana Sosa
About:
Three administrators supply their distinctive and private views on their dwelling state of Texas, creating vivid portraits of a state that mirrors america’ previous, current, and future. Impressed by the ebook God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright.
Iliana Sosa examines how “nepantla,” an embrace of in-betweenness, characterizes relations to each her Mexican heritage and her hometown of El Paso, Texas. An exploration revealing how the town’s humanity and distinctive hybridity catalyzed unity, nurturing therapeutic within the aftermath of a devastating mass capturing in 2019.
>February 28
On TV: HBO
GOD SAVE TEXAS: THE PRICE OF OIL
Sundance 2024
Director:
Alex Stapleton
About:
Three administrators supply their distinctive and private views on their dwelling state of Texas, creating vivid portraits of a state that mirrors america’ previous, current, and future. Impressed by the ebook God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright.
Because the world’s power capital, Houston is a metropolis that manufactures each its prominence and demise. Alex Stapleton explores the trade’s influence on her household, who arrived as enslaved folks within the 1830s, constructed thriving communities, and now should address the human prices of Texas’ largest money-maker.