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The Sundance Film Festival celebrates its 25th edition this year, and in that quarter-century, Sundance-both the festival and its parent Institute-have been instrumental in helping to move the documentary form forward, giving it prominent stature with the indie fiction fare and serving as a launch pad for docs that would go on to earn considerable kudos and plaudits. The inaugural Sundance Film Festival--then called the United States Film Festival--premiered such soon-to-be classics as The Times of Harvey Milk, Seventeen and Streetwise. Since then, Sherman's March, Hoop Dreams, When We Were
It must have been the fourth day of the Sundance Edit and Story Lab. I'd had a dream that woke me up. "Intent not content" was repeating in my head like a mantra. I walked down the mountain in the fresh morning air. Everyone was either at breakfast or asleep. I unlocked our edit suite and sat in front of my film for the first time in days. Daniela Alatorre, my producer, and I had arrived with a 75-minute rough cut of El General, the film I had been invited to bring to the lab. I was at that stage in the edit when you see the film as a film for the first time. After years of seeing fragments of
Ari Folman's film is the first doc ever to nab a Globe.