Sundance 2016: Documentary Premieres
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- DirectorDouglas McGrathStarsAnn-MargretAnne BancroftRichard BurtonFilmmaker Mike Nichols sits down with theater director Jack O'Brien to discuss his personal life and professional work.
- DirectorThorsten SchütteStarsFrank ZappaSteve AllenAngelAn in-depth look at the life and work of avant-garde musician, Frank Zappa.
- DirectorJJ GarvineTai ParquetStarsRobert HawkKevin SmithEdward BurnsFilm Hawk is based on the life of Bob Hawk. The documentary traces his early years as a young gay child of a Methodist minister to his current career as a consultant on some of the most influential independent films of our time.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsElon MuskLawrence KraussLucianne WalkowiczWerner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.
- DirectorFenton BaileyRandy BarbatoStarsNancy RooneyHarry MapplethorpeGeorge StackAn examination of the life and work of the revered and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
- DirectorRita CoburnBob HerculesStarsCicely TysonGuy JohnsonDiahann CarrollThe first feature documentary about the remarkable writer, poet, actress, activist Maya Angelou.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsMichael JacksonJackson 5Berry GordyA look at the life of the late pop star Michael Jackson from his early days at Motown Records to the release of his hit 1979 album, Off the Wall.
- DirectorHeidi EwingRachel GradyStarsNorman LearJohn AmosBea ArthurA look at the life, work and political activism of one of the most successful television producers of all time, Norman Lear.
- DirectorLiz GarbusStarsAnderson CooperPearson MarxStan StokowskiGloria Vanderbilt and her son Anderson Cooper discuss their notable family's history.
- DirectorRicardo FidelisRicardo KoanukaJessica NettelbladtIn a shantytown of Brazil a man refuses to let his physical disability prevent him from living a full life and to fulfill his dream of being able to live with his son.
- DirectorLouis BlackKaren BernsteinStarsSandra AdairPatricia ArquetteMichael BarkerA feature documentary on the life and work of filmmaker, Richard Linklater. Produced and Directed by Louis Black (founder of SXSW Festivals and the Austin Chronicle) and Karen Bernstein (Emmy and Grammy Award winning documentary filmmaker), this is an unusual look at a fiercely independent style of filmmaking that arose from Austin, Texas in the 1980s/ early 90's and how Linklater's films, Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Waking Life and Boyhood, sparked a low budget, in your own backyard movement in this country and around the world.
- DirectorStephanie SoechtigStarsPam BosleyKatie CouricTed CruzA look at the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre where 20 children were murdered at their school by a resentful, gun-obsessed shooter, but led to no changes in American federal gun laws.
- DirectorChris HegedusD.A. PennebakerStarsBarbara JaffeElizabeth SteinSteven M. WiseBetween 2013 and 2015, a group of nonprofit attorneys seek nonhuman clients for whom they can advocate in two U.S. territories, in order to establish legal personhood for elephants, cetaceans and nonhuman apes in the U.S.