The Sundance Film Festival welcomed back three Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers to help kick off the annual independent film showcase in Park City, Utah.
On Thursday night at The Ray Theater, “20 Days in Mariupol” filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov, who won the Oscar last year, debuted his latest dispatch from Ukraine, “2000 Meters to Andriivka,” a harrowing journey to the front lines of a 2023 counteroffensive. A few hours later, at the Eccles, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, who won an Oscar for “Summer of Soul” in 2022, unveiled his Sly Stone portrait, “SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genuis).” Earlier, “One Day in September” filmmaker Kevin MacDonald also showcased his film “One to One: John & Yoko,” which debuted last year at the Venice Film Festival and will get an IMAX release on April 11 before hitting Max later this year.
