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Sundance Film Festival Adds Docus From Andrew Jarecki and Bao Nguyen to Lineup


The Sundance Film Festival has added documentaries from Andrew Jarecki and Bao Nguyen to its lineup.

That was followed by the 2015 debut of the director’s “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.” The HBO bombshell six-part docuseries, which uncovered evidence of the late real estate tycoon’s connection to various murders, went on to win two Primetime Emmys. The unique alchemy of being able to share a film like this with so many attentive minds in the same room is what makes Sundance the ideal place to begin the important dialogue around this story in advance of its release on HBO later this year.” About WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the film was supposed to have its world premiere in Utah, but Eugene Jarecki said that due to “ significant recent and unexpected developments(that) have emerged at the heart of the story,” he was pulling the doc.

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