The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:
>October 6:
In Theatres
PLAN C
Sundance 2023
Director:
Tracy Droz Tragos
About:
A hidden grassroots organization doggedly fights to expand access to abortion pills across the United States keeping hope alive during a global pandemic and the fall of Roe v Wade.
>October 13
In Theatres
FANTASTIC MACHINE
Sundance 2023
Director:
Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck
About:
From the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity’s unique obsession with the camera’s image and the social consequences that lay ahead.
>October 21
In Theatres
LEAP OF FAITH: WILLIAM FRIEDKIN ON THE EXORCIST
Sundance 2020
Director:
Alexandre O Philippe
About:
A dissection of the 1973 horror classic through an extensive conversation with its director.
>October 23-24
In Theatres
BEYOND UTOPIA
Sundance 2023
Director:
Madeleine Gavin
About:
Hidden camera footage augments this perilous, high-stakes journey as we embed with families attempting to escape oppression, ultimate revealing a world most of us have never seen.
>October 24
On DVD & Streaming
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALLEN GINSBERG
Sundance 1993
Director:
Jerry Aronson
About:
A chronicle of the life of the famed father of beat poetry, from his childhood days in New Jersey to his years spent at Columbia University.
>October 27
In Theatres
BAD PRESS
Sundance 2023
Director:
Rebecca Landsberry-Baker, Joe Peeler
About:
When the Muscogee Nation suddenly begins censoring its free press, a rogue reporter fights to expose her government’s corruption in a historic battle that will have ramifications for all of Indian country.
>October 27
In Theatres
DEEP RISING
Sundance 2023
Director:
Matthieu Rytz
About:
The fate of the planet’s last untouched wilderness, the deep ocean, is under threat as a secretive organization is about to allow massive extraction of seabed metals to address the world’s energy crisis.
