Jessica Williams, Cate Blanchett star in Sundance premieres
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former "Daily Show" correspondent Jessica Williams flexes her dramatic chops, Cate Blanchett pays homage to great 20th century artists and "Silicon Valley" star Kumail Nanjiani tells a very personal story in some of the films premiering at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
Festival programmers announced their selections for the documentary and narrative premiere sections Monday, which has launched films like "Boyhood," ''Manchester by the Sea" and "O.J.:
Cate Blanchett re-enacts artistic statements of Dadaists, Lars von Trier and everyone in between in "Manifesto"; Michelle Pfeiffer and Kiefer Sutherland co-star in the drama "Where is Kyra"; and "Avengers" Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen re-team in the FBI crime thriller "Wind River," the directorial debut of "Hell or High Water" writer Taylor Sheridan.
Among the documentaries premiering are a look at the Oklahoma City bombing from Barak Goodman; Stanley Nelson's examination of black colleges and universities, Tell Them We Are Rising; and Barbara Kopple's account of a champion diver who announces he is transgender, This Is Everything: