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Try Harder! will have its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival as part of the U.S. Documentary Competition. It is one of only ten feature documentaries selected. Read more here.

A new film from FRONTLINE explores how the COVID crisis has hit vulnerable immigrants and undocumented workers. From award-winning filmmakers Daffodil Altan & Andrés Cediel, the film offers stories from the pandemic's invisible victims, including crucial farm and meat-packing workers who lack protections and have been getting sick. Check local listings and watch the trailer here.

CRIP CAMP wins the U.S. Documentary Audience Award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Read more here. The film plays festivals in New York, Miami, Newport, Camden, Columbia, Copenhagen and London before its premiere on Netflix on March 25th.

Courtesy of Sundance Institute CRIP CAMP, a feature documentary from the Obamas' Higher Ground Productions and Netflix, will have its world premiere on the opening night of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, where it is one of 16 films selected for the U.S. Documentary Competition. CRIP CAMP will also open MoMA’s Doc Fortnight 2020 on February 5th in [...]

American Masters presents the first documentary film exploring the remarkable life and legacy of the prolific and versatile author: Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, premiering nationwide Friday, August 2, 2019 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), and the PBS Video app. Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin had its world premiere at the Sheffield Documentary Festival and has shown [...]

Higher Ground Productions, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company in partnership with Netflix, has unveiled an initial slate of projects, including CRIP CAMP. The announcement includes seven projects that are in various different stages of development, to be released over the next several years. The former President and first lady launched Higher Ground last spring. [...]

SURVIVORS will have its national broadcast premiere on PBS' POV on September 24, 2018 (check local listings), following international festival premieres in South Africa and China, and a North American premiere at the Camden International Film Festival. SURVIVORS is a Co-Production of WEOWNTV and American Documentary | POV, and ITVS. Directed by Arthur Pratt. Co-Directed by Banker White, Anna [...]

© 2018 Sundance Institute | Photo by Brandon Cruz CRIP CAMP is one of five documentaries in progress selected to attend the 2018 Sundance Documentary Edit & Story Lab at the Sundance Resort in Utah. The Lab creates a space to develop, interrogate and collaborate on independent nonfiction films that are in the later stages of post-production. Documentary [...]

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin is a feature documentary exploring the remarkable life and legacy of the late author. Produced with Le Guin’s participation over the course of a decade, the film is a journey through the writer’s career and her worlds, both real and fantastic. Viewers will join the writer on an intimate journey of self-discovery as she [...]