The 2025 Sundance Film Festival has added two movies documentaries to its premiere section, The Alabama Solution and The Stringer.
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The Alabama Solution is from directors and producers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman and follows an incarcerated men who defies the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems. HBO will be releasing The Alabama Solution. Jarecki He made the Emmy-winning documentary series The Jinx for HBO, as well as Capturing the Friedmans which made its world premiere at Sundance in 2003 and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the New York Film Critics Circle award, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Jarecki also had Just a Clown (2004) and The Jink in 2015 at the fest.
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Filmmaker Bao Nguyen is also a Sundance vet, and his latest The Stringer follows a two-year investigation uncovering a scandal behind the making of one of the most-recognized photographs of the 20th century. Five decades of secrets are unraveled in the search for justice for a man known only as “the stringer.” Submarine is handling sales.
Nguyen previously premiered Be Water (2020) and The Greatest Night in Pop (2024).
“Adding these two nonfiction features to our robust slate of documentary offerings at the Festival, both told by filmmakers who have been a part of our Sundance community for many years, completes our programming with compelling explorations around justice and truth-telling,” said Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming.
Before Christmas Deadline reported that the Eugene Jarecki directed documentary The Six Billion Dollar Man about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange withdrew from the festival two weeks after Sundance unveiled its 2025 lineup.
Today’s additions brings the feature count for the fest to 88 projects. Sundance will take place from Jan. 23 to Feb. 2, 2025, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, from Jan. 30-Feb. 2.
Beginning Jan, 30, more than half the feature program will be available online for audiences nationwide to watch from home at festival.sundance.org. The curated online program will include all competition titles (U.S. Dramatic, U.S. Documentary, World Cinema Dramatic, World Cinema Documentary, and NEXT presented by Adobe), as well as additional selections from the feature, episodic, and Short Film Program.