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The Sundance Reel
Annually in January

The Wasatch Back's favorite local radio station and NPR affiliate is in the middle of the action, emotion and filmmaking of the Sundance Film Festival. Our veteran news team brings fresh interviews every morning with filmmakers, industry professionals and film festival insiders.

The Sundance Reel is produced by Beth Fratkin.

  • Directors Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber detail their film "War Game," in which a bipartisan group of U.S. defense, intelligence, and elected policymakers spanning five presidential administrations participate in an unscripted role-play exercise in which they confront a political coup backed by rogue members of the U.S. military, in the wake of a contested presidential election.
  • Director Carla Gutierrez offers an intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo in her film "Frida." Told through her own words for the very first time — drawn from her diary, revealing letters, essays, and print interviews — and brought vividly to life by lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork.
  • Industry executives John Sloss, Bob Berney, and Richard Lorber discuss the state of the film industry and the future of festivals such as Sundance.Sloss is the CEO of Cinetic Media. Berney is the CEO of Picturehouse. Lorber is the CEO of Kino Lorber, Inc.
  • Director Rich Peppiatt and members of Kneecap, Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí, talk about their film "Kneecap."There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio become unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue.
  • Acclaimed festival alum Dawn Porter invites audiences on a musical journey into the life of the iconic Luther Vandross, the man with the soulful velvet voice, in "Luther: Never Too Much."
  • Surrounded by social and political chaos in Lima during the summer of 1992, Lucia, Aurora, and their mother, Elena, plan to leave and seek opportunities in the United States. Their farewell involves reconnecting with their estranged father, Carlos, adding turbulence to the regrets, hopes, and fears of their emotional departure.
  • In her 21-year professional career, WNBA basketball legend Sue Bird has won five Olympic gold medals and become the most successful point guard to ever play the game. Alongside her fiancée, U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe, Sue confronts her next challenge: retiring from the only life she’s ever known.Emmy and Peabody Award–winning documentarian Sarah Dowland gets to the heart of what makes Bird one of the greatest and most influential athletes the world has ever seen, both on and off the court.
  • Teenage girls from wildly different backgrounds across Missouri navigate a week-long immersive experiment in American democracy, build a government from the ground up, and reimagine what it means to govern."Girls State" deftly reflects urgent issues around gender equality and our political landscape through the energetic and tenacious lens of youth. The candidates’ resilience and adaptability shine through, revealing that no closed doors are stopping these girls.
  • In this inspiring, emotionally powerful documentary, "Twice Colonized," the beautiful lens of director Lin Alluna journeys alongside an extraordinary human being as she plumbs through the social and personal wreckage of sanctioned white dominance to find the strength — within her abilities, her community, and her own vulnerabilities — to transform her hardships and painful experiences into something amazing that can inspire others who also struggle with the poisonous effects of colonialism.
  • KPCW News Director Leslie Thatcher, KPCW Film critic Mark Harrington and Salt Lake Tribune Culture Editor Sean Means and Salt Lake Tribune Culture Reporter Palak Jayswal discuss the best of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.