In ‘At the Ready,’ Latinx High Schoolers Train to Be Border Patrol Agents
A new documentary tells one story of the border through three conflicted young Texans’ job prospects, and the result is emotional, relational, and hard to categorize.
In At the Ready, three Latinx students hope to find steady jobs as Border Patrol agents, and come to question if the career is at odds with their identities, values, and families. Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival
A new documentary tells one story of the border through three conflicted young Texans’ job prospects, and the result is emotional, relational, and hard to categorize.
An occasionally inspiring, occasionally disconcerting look at teens processing the world.
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Director Maisie Crow follows a group of El Paso high school students in a law enforcement training program over the course of one life-changing year.
One of last year s big Sundance breakouts was the documentary
Boys State, in which high school students play-acted the mechanics of American democracy with results that were simultaneously inspiring and disheartening.
Hitting a somewhat similar sweet spot is Maisie Crow s
At the Ready, another documentary portrait of Texas teens dipping their toes into grown-up professional waters. If the image of kids experimenting with parliamentary procedure and political debate was disturbing, wait until you spent 100 minutes watching students learn about no-knock warrants and active shooter procedures.
Here are the 72 feature films in the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which will mostly screen online
The festival will be shorter with limited in-person events, to avoid spreading COVID-19.
(Daniel Power | courtesy of Focus Features / Sundance Institute) Robin Wright directs and stars in the drama Land. It s an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. | Updated: Jan. 5, 2021, 12:33 a.m.
With everything that will be different about the 2021 Sundance Film Festival a shorter event, with fewer films, most of it happening online the quality of movies on the slate has stayed constant, said the festival’s new director, Tabitha Jackson.