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From ‘The Stringer’ to ‘Move Ya Body,’ BIPOC Filmmakers Share the Untold Legacy of Their Communities in Sundance 2025 Documentaries
From ‘The Stringer’ to ‘Move Ya Body,’ BIPOC filmmakers share the untold legacy of their communities in Sundance 2025 documentaries.
In the film, as the journalists relentlessly work to track down the man, a decade’s worth of secrets and injustice carried out in foreign reporting are unraveled to ultimately give the photographer his rightful recognition. Similar to Nguyen, filmmaker Jesse Short Bull, from the Oglala Lakota Tribe in South Dakota, felt a personal connection to tell the story of Native American activist Leonard Peltier when his co-director David France brought the idea to him. “Films about the legacy of people of color and their contributions to society are a roadmap for future generations,” asserts Bratton, adding, “historically, POCs have been blocked from having real political power in the Western hemisphere so our art, our sports, our intellect, our food, these become the ways that we get to understand that we have agency in this world.
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