The 2022 Sundance Film Festival is almost here! From Jan. 20– 30, all eyes will be on the Sundance lineup and on what are sure to be some of the year’s most heralded documentaries. Top Docs caught up with Basil Tsiokos, Sundance Senior Programmer, Nonfiction, to preview this year’s doc features and to give us an inside look into how the programming process works.
Basil Tsiokos is Senior Programmer, Nonfiction, Sundance Film Festival. He was most recently with DOC NYC for nearly a decade, as well as with the Nantucket Film Festival as its Film Program Director. Basil was the longtime Artistic and Executive Director of NewFest: The NY LGBT Film Festival and serves on the feature nominating committees for the International Documentary Association Awards and Cinema Eye Honors. Since 2010, he has written daily about documentaries on what (not) to doc.
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”Bring Your Own Brigade” with Lucy Walker
”Ailey” with Jamila Wignot
”Ascension” with Jessica Kingdon
”In the Same Breath” with Nanfu Wang
”Lead Me Home” with Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk
”Audible” with Matt Ogens
”Camp Confidential” with Mor Loushy
”Summer of Soul” with Ahmir Questlove Thompson
”Julia” with Betsy West and Julie Cohen
”Sophie & the Baron” with Alexandria Jackson
”Three Songs for Benazir” with Gulistan and Elizabeth Mirzaei & Omar Mullick
”Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry” with R.J. Cutler
”Writing with Fire” with Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh
”Messwood” with Brad Lichtenstein & Emily Kuester
”Radiograph of a Family” with Firouzeh Khosrovani
”Boulevard” with Jeffrey Schwarz
”The Caviar Connection” with Benoît Bringer
”No Straight Lines” with Vivian Kleiman
Oscar Shortlist Breakdown with Anne Thompson
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