Documentary Super Directors, Super Producers Book Passage To Final Sundance In Park City; Brittney Griner, Billie Jean King Also Courted By Festival

Key Highlights

• You can add Emmy winner Judd Apatow, Emmy winner Sam Bisbee, Antoine Fuqua, Dawn Porter, Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, and Amir Bar-Lev to the mix of prominent names as well.
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• Watch on Deadline Author Salman Rushdie, who lost an eye and suffered other life threatening injuries in a 2022 knife attack.
• Bryan Bedder/ for PEN America “It is very focused on that incident and sort of how it impacted [Rushdie],” explains Basil Tsiokos, senior documentary programmer at Sundance.
• “It’s really very much in his voice and in his reflections on what that [incident] meant and how he has dealt with this fatwa and what that has done to his experience of living and being within society.