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Sundance Docs About Famous People Are Getting More Cinematic. Will They All Find Buyers?
Docs about Frida Kahlo, Christopher Reeve and Luther Vandross will debut at Sundance but they may not all find buyers in a challenging sales climate.
Given the current dismal political and cultural climate as well as streaming services’ massive appetite for celebrity driven content, it comes as no surprise that the 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival is chock full of portrait documentaries. Fox Movie” and “Judy Blume Forever,” the buzzy project, independently produced by London-based Misfits and U.S. based Words + Pictures, is coming to the festival without a deep-pocketed distributor. The director used interviews with Eno and his contemporaries as well as hundreds of hours of video from the artist’s own archive, to assemble a “modular” film which shuffles unpredictably between time periods and mediums while offering a composite portrait of his subject.
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