Documentaries on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Roy Cohn and Harvey Weinstein will sit alongside dramatic features starring Zac Efron, Emma Thompson and Jake Gyllenhaal at next year’s Sundance film festival. The announcement of the full lineup promises the most diverse festival to date. Across the four competition categories, 42% of directors are women, 39% are people of colour and 23% identify as LGBT. Within the documentary strand lies Knock Down the House, a look at the movement of four female insurgent candidates challenging incumbents during the recent midterm elections, including Ocasio-Cortez. It sits alongside Where’s My Roy Cohn?, a look at the “dark arts” of the influential lawyer and his connection to Donald Trump, as well as Untouchable, the inside story of the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein. There are also a number of films with a political bent, including the Steven Soderbergh-produced thriller The Report, the story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the Senate’s study into the CIA’s detention and interrogation program. The film stars Adam Driver, Jon Hamm and Annette Bening as Dianne Feinstein. The story of the British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun will also be brought to the festival in Official Secrets starring Keira Knightley. Gun leaked… Read full this story
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