PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Filmmaker Yance Ford was in a “Sundance haze” when he took a meeting with Netflix following the premiere of “Strong Island” in 2017.
“Strong Island” would go on to get an Oscar nomination, too, as would its Sundance and Netflix peer “Icarus,” which would win best documentary in 2018.
“Netflix understood what ‘Strong Island’ was doing and what it could say to a big, broad audience.”Ten years after “The Square,” an acquisition that put Netflix documentaries on the map, the streamer is back at the 40th Sundance Film Festival with an eye towards acquisitions and two very different originals.
“We really were the new kids on the block trying to persuade filmmakers that having the reach of the platform was something that was really important,” Del Deo said.
“I think it's going to put a lot of smiles on people,” Del Deo said.
Persons:
Yance Ford, “, Miss Simone, ” Liz Garbus, Nina Simone, Ford, ” Ford, ’, ”, Bao Nguyen’s, ” Adam Del Deo, Lisa Nishimura, Del Deo, It’s, “ Crip, they’ve, Garbus, John Legend, ” Garbus, ” “, Simone ”, Harry, Meghan ”, Nishimura, Jon Batiste, Barbie ”, —, Lionel Richie, Harry Belafonte, Bruce Springsteen, Smokey Robinson, Cyndi Lauper, Dionne Warwick, Huey Lewis, ” Del Deo, Nguyen, it’s, ” Nguyen
Organizations:
Netflix, Sundance, Associated Press, Toronto, Eccles
Locations:
CITY , Utah, America, Park City , Utah, Brazil, France, Garbus, “, Telluride, Vietnam