At Park City, Utah’s 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Colorado-born documentaries were too good to be ignored.
Boulder’s scored big with “Chasing Coral,” its latest climate change documentary, which netted the Audience Award for U.S. Documentary.
Directed by Jeff Orlowski, the film, which highlights climate change’s nefarious effects on the ocean (and subsequently the world), beat out fellow U.S. documentary “Dina,” which won the category’s Grand Jury prize.
It marks Exposure Labs’ second Sundance prize, after pulling down the Excellence in Cinematography Award in the U.S. Documentary category for 2012’s “Chasing Ice.”
Even after the swarms of fur-coated film lovers and insiders left Park City on Sunday night, the Colorado love didn’t let up.
On Monday, Rolling Stone included “78/52” and “Casting JonBenét,” the two other Colorado documentaries at the festival, in .
Kitty Green’s “Casting JonBenet” goes inside the sensationalized aftermath of the murder of 6-year-old Boulder, Colo. beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey.
“78/52” explores Alfred Hitchcock’s subversive masterpiece “Psycho,” tearing apart its infamous shower scene with nerdish glee.
And if you didn’t catch “Chasing Coral” or “Casting JonBenét” in Park City, don’t fret: .
