Making for a cool 88-title 2025 edition, the Sundance Film Festival have added two last minute additions to the line-up in the Premieres category. Andrew Jarecki (who broke out big in Park City with Capturing the Friedmans back in 2003) will present The Alabama Solution – which looks at how incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems. Bao Nguyen will introduce The Stringer – this is about a two-year investigation that uncovers 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.” Nguyen was at the 2020 edition of Sundance with Be Water – docu on Bruce Lee.
The Alabama Solution / U.S.A. (Directors, Producers: Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman) — Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems. World Premiere. Documentary.
The Stringer / U.S.A. (Director: Bao Nguyen, Producers: Fiona Turner, Terri Lichstein) — A two-year investigation uncovers 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.” World Premiere. Documentary.
