Sundance Film Festival 2013

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We Steal Secrets: The Story Of WikiLeaks We Steal Secrets: The Story Of WikiLeaks
We Steal Secrets: The Story Of WikiLeaks and Which Way Is The Front Line from Here? The Life And Time Of Tim Hetherington
ANITA (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Freida Mock)
American woman, charges Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment in explosive Senate hearings in 1991 – bringing sexual politics into the national consciousness and fueling 20 years of international debate on the issues.
World premiere
The Crash Reel (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Lucy Walker)
The jaw-dropping story of one unforgettable athlete, Kevin Pearce; one eye-popping sport, snow boarding; and one explosive issue, traumatic brain injury. An epic rivalry between Kevin and Shaun White culminates in a life-changing crash and a comeback story with a difference.
World premiere
History Of The Eagles Part One (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Alison Ellwood; Stars: Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Don Felder, Joe Walsh, Randy Meisner, Bob Seger, JD Souther, Kenny Rogers, Jackson Browne, David Geffen, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, James Taylor, Elton John, Linda Ronstadt)
Story of the rock band from inception to their 1980 split.
World premiere
Linsanity (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Evan Leong)
Jeremy Lin came from a humble background to make an unbelievable run in the NBA. State high school champion, all-Ivy League at Harvard, undrafted by the NBA and unwanted there: his story started long before he landed on Broadway.
World premiere
Muscle Shoals (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Greg 'Freddy' Camalier)
Down in Alabama Rick Hall founded FAME Studios and gave birth to the Muscle Shoals sound. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Gregg Allman, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Bono and others bear witness to the greatest untold American music story.
World premiere
History Of The Eagles Part One History Of The Eagles Part One
History Of The Eagles Part One and Sound City
Pandora's Promise (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Robert Stone)
A growing number of environmentalists are renouncing decades of antinuclear orthodoxy and have come to believe that the most feared and controversial technology known to mankind is probably our greatest hope.
World premiere
Running From Crazy (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Barbara Kopple)
Mariel Hemingway, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, strives for a greater understanding of her family history of suicide and mental illness. As tragedies are explored and deeply hidden secrets are revealed, Mariel searches for a way to overcome a similar fate.
World premiere
Sound City (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Dave Grohl)
Through interviews and performances with the legendary musicians and producers who worked at America's greatest unsung recording studio, Sound City, we explore the human element of music, and the lost art of analogue recording in an increasingly digital world.
World premiere
We Steal Secrets: The Story Of WikiLeaks (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Alex Gibney; Writer: Alex Gibney; Stars: John 'FuzzFace' McMahon, Alex Gibney, Julian Assange, Robert Manne, Heather Brooke, Michael Hayden, J. William Leonard, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Smári McCarthy, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Adrian Lamo, Timothy Douglas Webster, Chelsea Manning, Jason Edwards, Nick)
A profile of the Wikileaks organisation and the various people who contributed to its success.
World premiere
When I Walk (Country: Canada; Year: 2013; Director: Jason DaSilva)
At 25, filmmaker and artist Jason DaSilva finds out he has a severe form of multiple sclerosis. This film shares his personal and grueling journey over the next seven years. Along the way, an unlikely miracle changes everything.
World premiere
When I Walk When I Walk
When I Walk and ANITA
Which Way Is The Front Line from Here? The Life And Time Of Tim Hetherington (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Sebastian Junger)
Tribute to the photojournalist and documentarian who was killed in Libya in 2011.
World premiere
The World According To Dick Cheney (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: RJ Cutler, Greg Finton)
How did Dick Cheney become the single-most-powerful nonpresidential figure in American history? This multi-layered examination of Cheney's life, career, key relationships and controversial worldview features exclusive interviews with the former vice president and his closest allies.
World premiere
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