Sundance 2024: Superlative and gripping, Sugarcane takes viewers to elucidating plane of empathy, truth, reconciliation
In North America, the horrific legacy of federal Indian residential and boarding schools has never been new to Indigenous communities. In the superlative and gripping documentary, Sugarcane, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, we learn just how profoundly ingrained the trauma of that legacy continues to affect every Indigenous person in British Columbia. The … Read more
Sundance 2024: Union makes for well-paced documentary film, packing zip, punch and drama into story about independent labor organizing
In the 1930s, unions organized with tremendous success, eventually coming to represent more than one-third of the nation’s…
Sundance 2024: Porcelain War is extraordinary testament in new frame of documentary filmmaking about war combat, indispensable presence of art
A title card in the opening of Porcelain War reads: “Nearly all the footage you are about to…
Sundance 2024: Superb, spellbinding and unsettling, Eternal You documentary critiques technology’s quest to ‘keep the dead alive’
Up until 2007, Facebook deleted the profiles of any deceased persons but in the aftermath of the shootings…
Sundance 2024: Mesmerizing and riveting, Love Machina blends love story into earnest belief in benevolent possibilities of technology
After watching Love Machina (C41 Media), one of the films in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2024…