Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon has teamed up with the SundanceNow Doc Club as a guest curator to share with audiences, eight of her favourite documentaries. Also included in the program are two documentaries, STORIED STREETS and WAITING FOR MAMU, which are not only executive produced by Sarandon but have also never been released before on subscription VOD.
‘When I watch a doc, at least once, I want my head to explode and my heart to feel. I want to see the world differently. Know something I didn’t know before. Engage me but most of all surprise me’.
‘I appreciate a doc when it encourages you to be the protagonist in your own life or when it makes you itch to solve a problem, fight for justice. Others celebrate life and the human spirit. Doesn’t get much better than this’.
Each of the eight films selected come with a personal note from Sarandon and include first time director Alison Klayman’s AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY, Jeff Malmberg’s MARWENCOL, PINK RIBBON INC., and 2009 Academy Award Nominee for Best Feature Documentary TROUBLE THE WATER.
In addition to curating ‘Susan Sarandon Favorites’, Sarandon has been busy working on a number of upcoming projects including THREE GENERATIONS with Naomi Watts and Elle Fanning, and 2016 slates THE MEDDLER with J.K. Simmons and Rose Byrne, and the animated space adventure SPARK with Hillary Swank and Jessica Biel.
Available for viewing now, you can check out the trailer for STORIED STREETS below or watch a selection from ‘Susan Sarandon Favorites’ on demand here.
Source: SundanceNow Doc Club
