Valene MC 2025 Sundance Film Picks

  • January 22, 2025
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Valene MC's Film Picks

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You - With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist. Dark Comedy Starring Rose Byrne, A$AP Rocky and Conan O’Brian

Middletown - Inspired by an unconventional teacher, a group of teenagers in upstate New York in the early 1990s made a student film that uncovered a vast conspiracy involving toxic waste that was poisoning their community. Thirty years later, they revisit their film and confront the legacy of this transformative experience. This is from the filmmakers that brought us award-winning Girls State and Boys State.

Cutting Through Rocks - the first elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi. As she aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. When accusations arise questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the girls, her identity is put in turmoil.

Short Documentary Tiger - A portrait of award-winning, internationally acclaimed Indigenous artist and elder Dana Tiger, her family, and the resurgence of the iconic Tiger T-shirt company. Indigenous Filmmakers Loren Waters and Utah’s own Robert L Hunter

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) - An examination of the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone — the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic and enigmatic Sly Stone — captures the band’s rise, reign, and subsequent fadeout while shedding light on the unseen burden that comes with success for Black artists in America.  With Oscar Winning Director, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson  KRCL will be interviewing with Joseph Patel

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival runs January 23 through February 2, 2025 and celebrates independent storytelling both in person and online at the 41th edition of the Sundance Film Festival.

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