The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:
>April 3:
Streaming: Hulu
PRETTY BABY: BROOKE SHIELDS
Sundance 2023
Director:
Lana Wilson
About:
A galvanizing look at actor, model, and icon Brooke Shields as she transforms from sexualized young girl to a woman discovering her power. Holding a mirror up to a society that objectifies women and girls, her story shows the perils and triumphs of gaining agency in a hostile world.
>April 7:
On TV: Showtime
2ND CHANCE
Sundance 2022
Director:
Ramin Bahrani
About:
An exploration of the rise and fall of Richard Davis, the charming and brash inventor of the modern-day bulletproof vest who shot himself 192 times to prove his product worked.
>April 11:
On DVD
FILM HAWK
Sundance 2016
Director:
JJ Garvine, Tai Parquet
About:
A portrait of beloved film industry vet Bob Hawk.
>April 11:
In Theatres (one night only)
LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING
Sundance 2023
Director:
Lisa Cortés
About:
This celebration of Little Richard reveals the Black queer origins of rock ’n’ roll, finally exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music. Through archival and performance footage, the revolutionary icon’s life unspools with all of its switchbacks and contradictions.
>April 11:
On DVD/VOD
THE MISSION
Sundance 2022
Director:
Tania Anderson
About:
A revelation of the inner lives of young Mormon missionaries, as they leave their homes for the first time and embark upon the most emotionally, physically, and psychologically challenging period of their life.
>April 21:
Streaming: Amazon Prime Video
JUDY BLUME FOREVER
Sundance 2023
Director:
Davina Pardo, Leah Wolchok
About:
The radical honesty of the books by young adult fiction pioneer Judy Blume changed the way millions of readers understood themselves, their sexuality, and what it meant to grow up, but also led to critical battles against book banning and censorship.
>April 21:
In Theatres (expansion) & On VOD
LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING
Sundance 2023
Director:
Lisa Cortés
About:
This celebration of Little Richard reveals the Black queer origins of rock ’n’ roll, finally exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music. Through archival and performance footage, the revolutionary icon’s life unspools with all of its switchbacks and contradictions.
>April 24:
On TV: Independent Lens
FREE CHOL SOO LEE
Sundance 2022
Director:
Julie Ha, Eugene Yi
About:
After a Korean immigrant is wrongly convicted of a 1973 San Francisco Chinatown gang murder, Asian Americans unite as never before to free Chol Soo Lee. A former street hustler becomes the symbol for a landmark movement. But once out, he self-destructs, threatening the movement’s legacy and the man himself.
>April 28:
In Theatres
32 SOUNDS
Sundance 2022
Director:
Sam Green
About:
An immersive documentary and sensory film experience that explores the elemental phenomenon of sound and its power to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us. The film will be presented in its “live cinema” form, featuring live music and live narration.
