… or go and see in theaters six months from now if you are terminally unhip like me.
I have not one—but TWO—friends with documentaries at Sundance this year. Apparently, I am the perfect random, non-movie-industry person to know if you are a filmmaker. (I like to pretend I actually had something to do with their success)
Filmmakers Victoria Bruce and Karin Hayes will be showing their new film We’re Not Broke, which chronicles the events that blossomed into the Occupy movement. Vicky and I grew up in Santa Ana together and she’s pretty damned cool. The film has been selected for the documentary competition.
Writer and director Amy Berg will be premiering her documentary West of Memphis, about the West Memphis Three. I met Amy when she was working on her film Deliver Us From Evil, which was nominated for an Academy Award. The film told the story of serial predator priest Oliver O’Grady and the path of destruction he left through northern California.
These are some pretty talented, smart, feisty, tenacious, and compassionate women. I am lucky to call them my friends.