The Sundance Film Festival has added two documentaries from directors Andrew Jarecki’s and Bao Nguyen to its 2025 documentary lineup. Jarecki’s docu, titled “The Alabama Solution,” is about, per the film’s press release, “incarcerated men who defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems.” “The Alabama Solution” is the fourth project […]

Doc Short Contenders Give Voters Plenty to Ponder The 15 films that made the shortlist in the Oscars’ documentary short category are all powerful and thought-provoking, making the competition for an Academy Award nod incredibly stiff this year. Leading the charge are “Incident,” “The Only Girl in the Orchestra,” “The Quilters,” “Death by Numbers” and […]

When Chris Smith saw a headline about 47-year-old L.A.-based tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson’s quest to spend $2 million a year to become 18 again, the director knew he’d found the subject of his next documentary. But there was a problem. “I wrote to (Bryan’s team), and they said I was the sixty-fifth production company/person to […]

In Asif Kapadia’s latest documentary, “2073,” Ivanka Trump celebrates her 30th year as leader of a nightmarish fascist police state that was once America. The docudrama blends interviews with journalists and archival real-life news footage with a fictional story starring Samatha Morton to tell a story about a dystopic future that doesn’t feel too far […]