From Hoop Dreams, which premiered at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival For the past 25 years, the Sundance Institute has been synonymous with independent cinema. But there once was a world without Sundance. The year was 1980. Jimmy Carter was US President, the Iran hostage crisis was casting a pall on the American psyche, and, in protest over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the US government had voted to boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow. CNN was just getting off the ground and Hollywood was dominating American film. The problem was that American film was getting stale--formulaic
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Actress Whoopi Goldberg, featured in African American Lives, premiering on PBS In celebration of Black History Month, PBS will debut African American Lives on Wednesday, February 1, 2006. The four-part series, a co-production of Thirteen/WNET New York and Kunhardt Productions, traces the family trees of an accomplished group of African Americans, including actress Whoopi Goldberg, television host Oprah Winfrey, actor Chris Tucker, former astronaut Mae Jemison and neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, among others. The series producers are Leslie Asako Gladsjo and Jesse Sweet, and the senior producers
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The DOC SHOT Q&A is an exclusive online feature by Documentary magazine associate editor Tamara Krinsky. Through this mix of questions (some serious, some sassy) each DOC SHOT provides a glimpse into the work and lives of those creating and supporting nonfiction film. Don Hardy and Dana Nachman, Producers/Directors: Witch Hunt YOUR FILM Brief description of your film: Witch Hunt is the story of one small California town-Bakersfield--where cowboy law enforcement replaced justice while destroying families for generations, as 34 families were falsely accused and wrongfully convicted of child
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