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Sundance 2009: US Documentary Competition   The General by Natalia Almada   Art & Copy (Director: Doug Pray; screenwriter: Timothy J. Sexton) Rare interviews with the most influential advertising creative minds of our age illustrate the wide-reaching effect advertising and creativity have on modern culture. Boy Interrupted (Director: Dana Perry) An intimate look at the life, mental illness and death of a young man told [...]

At Cinema Minima: Nick Marshall's "Sexual Oddities at Sundance 2007" "At first glance this story of bestiality [Zoo, about a man who died after having sex with a horse] seems to be merely a shock tactic, as exploitive as a donkey show. … But for [director Roberson] Devor [right] … one would expect something more meaningful. Rather than focusing simply on the sexual acts, Devor [...]