Tag: Boys State
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‘Boys State’: Film Review
Every summer, more than 1,000 teens swarm the Texas capitol building to attend Boys State, the annual American Legion-sponsored leadership conference where these incipient politicians divide into rival parties, the Nationalists and the Federalists, and attempt to build a mock government from the ground up. In 2017, the program attracted attention for all the wrong…
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‘Minari’ & ‘Boys State’ Triumph With Sundance Film Festival’s Top Prizes
You can justifiably argue that it was a weaker than normal crop of films at this year’s 2020 Sundance Film Festival, but the two top jury prize winners were the exceptions. During a non-streamed for the first time in over a decade ceremony, Lee Isaac Chung’s critically acclaimed “Minari” took the Grand Jury Prize for…
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Concordia Studio Took ‘Boys State’ From Two-Page Pitch to Record-Breaking $12 Million Sundance Deal
As audiences embrace documentaries for their gripping and bingeable truths, another trend has developed in parallel: Oscar-winning documentary directors who launch studios devoted to producing multiple high-quality nonfiction works. There’s Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Prods., Morgan Neville’s Tremolo Prods., and now there’s Concordia Studio, launched by Davis Guggenheim (“Waiting For ‘Superman‘”) with Jonathan King (and backing…