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Before joining the Sundance team, Lozano served as director of the International Documentary Association’s Enterprise Documentary Fund. With the IDA, Lozano oversaw the program that supported numerous documentarians and placed an emphasis on diverse and journalistically rigorous storytelling. Before IDA she held senior positions at the Bay Area Video Coalition and Al Jazeera America. Her films, including 2016’s The Ballad of Fred Hersch, have premiered at film festivals including Sundance and Berlinale. … [Read more...] about Sundance Institute Names Carrie Lozano Director Of Documentary Film Program

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Innovation in Non-fiction Storytelling … [Read more...] about Sundance Film Festival Awards: ‘Minari’ Scores Double Top Honors – The Complete Winners List

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Here’s what Cuties, the debut feature from French-Senegalese filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré, is: the story of an 11-year-old named Amy (Fathia Youssouf) who’s stuck watching her family fall apart and is trying to find a place for herself in the world. Here’s what it is not: a salacious bit of pedo-bait designed to appeal to baser instincts rather than better angels. To be fair, Netflix — the company that purchased this slice-of-life drama at Sundance, where Doucouré won the Best Directing award in the fest’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition — did the work exactly zero favors by switching out the original French poster (kids romping down la rue after a shopping spree) for one featuring the underage cast in provocative poses and couture. Out of context, the girls’ outfits look questionably flashy and trashy; seen in context, as the costumes for a hip-hop dance troupe competing for a grand prize, you understand how they function in … [Read more...] about ‘Cuties’ Review: A Coming-of-Age Movie Caught in the Culture Wars

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