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Lucy Walker’s Bring Your Own Brigade isn't the first documentary about the devastation wrought by uncontrolled wildfires that destroyed Paradise, California. In 2020, director Ron Howard’s Rebuilding Paradise also played at the Sundance Film Festival.

When HFPA journalists interviewed Christopher Plummer in 2002, we asked him what he looked forward to, and his answer was, “I’d like another twenty, twenty-five years. ” Well, he almost made it.

Ellen Burstyn plays the mother of Vanessa Kirby in Pieces of a Woman. The first time she met with HFPA journalists in January 1975, she talked about Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, directed by Martin Scorsese.

Selected as one of Variety’s 10 Directors to watch, Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. brings his quiet and confident film Wild Indian to the Sundance Film Festival.

With the mainstreaming of nonfiction narratives and the expansion in streaming platform options, the last two decades or so have seen an explosion in documentaries chronicling precocious overachievers, from Jeffrey Blitz’s Oscar-nominated Spellbound all the way up to and including several new offerings at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Cusp, on the other hand, co-directed by Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt, is an arresting work of underclass portraiture that exists on the opposite end of this adolescent spectrum, centering not on honor roll students but rather on kids with a certain amount of trauma and an even greater amount of uncertainty about what their futures could or should hold.

A world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was the recipient of the U. S.

Offering rich historical material, All Light, Everywhere, Theo Anthony's chilling documentary deals with the increasing presence of sophisticated and subtle surveillance in our everyday lives. World premiering at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, it was honored with a special jury prize in nonfiction experimentation.

As much as the world likes to believe progress has been made in the equality of human rights, last summer’s Black Lives Matter movement illustrated that clearly, there is still much to be done. As often as we are told to learn from history sadly, we witness too many times history repeating itself.

Winner of the 2021 Sundance Documentary competition, Summer of Soul, can perhaps best be described as an engrossing history lesson with an irresistible beat. The documentary marks the directing debut of Ahmir Questlove Thompson and it takes us back to the torrid summer of 1969, when a public concert series, collectively dubbed the Harlem Cultural Festival, took place in Harlem’s Mount Morris Park.

As if the pandemic wasn’t enough to worry us, now we have to be concerned about an asteroid on a trajectory to hit Earth. At least that’s the premise of Zoe Lister-Jones’ comedy How It Ends.