A special edition of the Sundance Daily newsletter covering the Sundance Institute gala, movie recommendations, and more.
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In this edition of our Sundance Daily newsletter, we recap Friday night's Sundance Institute gala, share our tips for seeing live music in Park City and unveil the first batch of photos and videos from the L.A. Times Studios. Plus, the latest movie recommendations from our team of film buffs. \'The Stringer' (The Ray Theatre, 7:30 p.m.) In June 1972, after South Vietnamese planes dropped napalm on the town of Trảng Bàng, a photographer captured the image of grievously burned 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc fleeing the attack, completely nude, arms akimbo and wearing an expression of agony. 'The Terror of War' — more colloquially known as 'Napalm Girl' — swiftly became one of the most famous war photographs ever produced, fueling antiwar sentiment and earning a Pulitzer Prize for Nick Ut of the Associated Press. Except, Bao Nguyen's engrossing investigative documentary alleges, it wasn't Ut who snapped the picture. Crisscrossing the globe from Arles, France, to Ho Chi Minh City to Southern California, Nguyen follows VII Foundation Chief Executive Gary Knight as he follows up on a former AP photo editor's accusation that the image came from a Vietnamese stringer, whose work he says was falsely attributed to Ut. (After learning of 'The Stringer's' existence, the AP conducted its own six-month investigation into the image and released a 22-page report stating, 'In the absence of new, convincing evidence to the contrary, the AP has no reason to believe anyone other than Ut took the photo.') Whether the documentary presents enough 'new, convincing evidence' to change the history (and future) of 'The Terror of War' will be in the eye of the beholder, but it culminates in a forensic analysis of still images and video from that day in Trang Bang that left this viewer gobsmacked. — Matt Brennan \'Rabbit Trap' (Jan. 30 and Feb. 1, Library Center Theatre) Folk horror isn’t supposed to make a lot of sense and writer-director Bryn Chainey’s feature debut, set in an unusually eventful Welsh forest, won’t disabuse you of that notion. But a mood is brewed — dank and laced with hints of fantasy — and if Peter Strickland and Alex Garland got to these ideas sooner, those guys are swell company to be in. A too-modern-feeling couple (Dev Patel and “Blue Jean” breakout Rosy McEwen) live in the mid-1970s in a cottage with more analog synth equipment than Pink Floyd’s attic. He records field sounds while she makes threatening experimental music. They smoke a lot of cigarettes, take a lot of baths and seem to be avoiding something. Then a nameless local 12-year-old arrives (the arresting Jade Croot), glomming onto their vibe, and the movie tips deliriously toward something pushy and tension-filled. The weirdness, beautifully designed and elliptical, is welcome. — Joshua Rothkopf \No one represents the resilience of Los Angeles and its film community quite like Michelle Satter. Little more than a year after her son, Michael Latt, was shot and killed in his home, Satter's family home was destroyed in the Palisades fire earlier this month — and yet the Sundance Institute founding director, honoree of this year's Sundance Institute gala, found notes of hope, even humor, in her speech Friday. 'As some of you know, we recently lost our family home in the fire that burned down most of the Palisades,' a tearful Satter told attendees at the annual fundraiser, held at the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley. 'It's a deeply devastating time for us and so many others, a moment that calls for all of us coming together to support our bigger community. As a friend recently noted, and I have to listen to this, 'Take a deep breath.' Take a deep breath. We lost our village, but at the end of the day we are the village.' On a night that also celebrated Sean Wang ('Didi'), Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie ('Sugarcane'), Cynthia Erivo ('Wicked') and James Mangold ('A Complete Unknown'), it was Satter who inspired the loudest cheers and longest standing ovations, aided by stirring tributes from filmmaker Marielle Heller, actor Glenn Close and Sundance founder Robert Redford, who penned a letter in tribute to Satter — part of the Sundance family since its founding in 1981 — read by his daughter Amy. In her remarks Satter also remembered her late son, joking that he didn't like waking up early when he volunteered on the crew at the Sundance Lab and asking the audience to embrace the Sundance mission he grew up with.
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