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Rebel against the entrenched establishment. Reject authority, fight the power. Re-new your right for freedom and individuality. Docs can help us do that....right?

Redford has said many times that docs are our last bastion of reliable truth since the traditional media “has gone the way of the dodo.” And the docs this year at Sundance cover everything from Iraq to a female comedian's struggle to keep going despite the impenetrable boy's club. But do these films do anything to actually change the way Coke, Chevron and Citibank run the world?

Just pix today...

Annie Sundberg & Hank at the Premiere of

JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK

Joan Rivers at the premiere of the film

Joan and the filmmakas! (also Fest Director John Cooper on the Left)

P.S. If you're at Sundance, look for Hank in the DocuMentors ski hat, or pick up a DocuMentors postcard to get the SUNDANCE SPECIAL!! (Special Membership offer)

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Sundance Scene and Overherd

-The snow was constant yesterday, but it has stopped today.  Getting around is still challenging--seems like there are fewer shuttles this year?? I am in the Filmmakers Lodge right now and I just heard someone say, “Damn, this place has gotten huge” (meaning the fest). I do remember coming the year after 9/11, and that seems like a ghost town compared with now.

Hank with Caroline Libresco, Sr Programmer at the fest.

So a few days before leaving for Sundance, I became totally obsessed with the weather...watching the Weather Channel, looking at on-line weather reports, listening to radio updates or cable news stories, as well as asking friends what they had heard. Those LA rain storms (3 of them!) were coming right across my driving route between Santa Fe and Park City. Right smack through northern New Mexico and all of Utah. The last thing I wanted was to end up in some snowbank outside of Moab, so I went on to Google maps again and asked for a different route. I did not like what I found: North to Denver, up to Wyoming and into Utah from the north.  At least 4-5 hours longer, all interstate, lots of trucks. No way! Was it going to be worth it?