Sundance Film Festival programmers David Courier and Hussain Currimbhov profile two of this year’s documentary contenders that reflect a specific tone this year of more human interest stories. Two of those films are The Wolfpack and Finders Keepers.
“We always tackle the big issue films at Sundance, and we have those too,” Courier said. “But this is a year when what rose to the top – the cream of the crop – were films that reflect that.”
In the case of Finders Keepers, Courier promises it will be “the craziest f**king story you’ll ever see in your life.”
The documentary by Bryan Carberry’s recounts the story of amputee John Wood, who finds himself in a stranger-than-fiction battle to reclaim his mummified leg. The fight is with an entrepreneur named Shannon Whisnant, who found it in a grill he bought at an auction and is now in a legal battle to prove that it is now his rightful property.
The two programmers tout the doc The Wolfpack as an “instant classic with an amazing story.”
That film, by Crystal Moselle, follows six fascinating teenage brothers who have spent their entire lives away from society in a Manhattan housing project, with all they know of the outside world learned from movies they watch obsessively and act out.
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