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Eugene Jarecki Talks Drug War and Political Campaign for Sundance Doc Winner 'The House I Live In'

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Eugene Jarecki's incisive and incendiary "The House I Live In," which won the U.S. documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and might win next year's doc Oscar, will blow your mind.

By Anne Thompson
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March 8, 2012 1:39 PM
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HBO Documentary Films czar Sheila Nevins is a force to be reckoned with. After 30 years in the entertainment industry, she knows how to adapt. I sat down with her at the Sundance Film Festival to talk about HBO's Sundance docs as well as ongoing changes in Oscar doc rules.

By Anne Thompson
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February 22, 2012 3:47 PM
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Argentine commercials director Armando Bo, who cowrote Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu's "Biutiful," had his moment in the spotlight at Sundance with his feature debut, the World Dramatic Competition entry, “The Last Elvis,” which Buena Vista is circling for Latin America and the world.

By Liza Foreman
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January 30, 2012 4:56 PM
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Producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh participated in a Sundance press conference for Amy Berg's controversial doc "West of Memphis" Saturday.

By Anne Thompson and Charles Lyons
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January 22, 2012 2:43 AM
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One of the films that will debut at Sundance this January is "Chasing Ice," the debut documentary by 27-year old filmmaker Jeff Orlowski about James Balog, a National Geographic photographer who has traveled across the world to capture incredible time lapse photography of receding glaciers. Balog began his journey as a climate change skeptic, but now devotes his life to photographing and lecturing about the effect climate change is having on the Earth's ice.