Year after year, the Sundance Film Festival in Utah continues to be one of the most important launching grounds for documentary films. They've been programming & featuring some of the finest documentaries ever made throughout their 40+ year history. But most of these doc films (or docs for short) rarely get much attention. Some critics ignore them; the media only covers the few they can turn into topical stories. While most screenings are full, it's hard to get anyone to care about many of these doc films after their premiere. It's one of the best aspects of the Sundance Film Festival – many other major fests like Cannes and Venice and AFI Fest always push docs to the side. A few will make the cut, but not enough, and most of these fests don't have sections specifically to showcase docs in their own category. Above all else, the overall quality of doc films that Sundance shows is exceptional – they bring in the best of the best every single year. It's quite exciting. One of my colleagues Anthony Kaufman just wrote an article for the International Documentary Association claiming that "Sundance May Now Be the World’s Most Important Documentary Launchpad." I'm inclined to agree and after this year's festival also have to comment on how amazing the docs have been. // Continue Reading ›