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Try Harder! Review: Endearing, Alarming Doc on Senior-Year College-Application Hope and Heartbreak
The agonies and ecstasies of a high-achieving majority Asian-American senior class during a cutthroat college application season.
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Running time: Running time: 84 MIN
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“You get used to feeling mediocre,” says one of the merely very bright students in a school full of what he considers “geniuses.” “Try Harder,” Debbie Lum’s simultaneously charming and chastening documentary on the senior class in Lowell High the majority Asian-American, top-ranked school in San Francisco takes its cue from its lovable, dorky, high-achieving subjects and mostly remains in a cheerful register, heroizing a group rarely celebrated in high school movies: the good kids.
StanfordCaliforniaUnited-statesNew-yorkTaiwanChinaBerlinGermanySan-franciscoChineseAmericanTaiwaneseActresses Cynthia Erivo and Daniela Vega among the members of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival juries Sean P. Means © Provided by Salt Lake Tribune (Photos courtesy of Sundance Institute) Director Julie Dash, actor Cynthia Erivo and novelist Hanya Yanagihara will comprise the U.S. Dramatic competition jury at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
A legendary filmmaker, two groundbreaking actresses, and a pair of fashionable sisters will be among those deciding the winners of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Here are the line-ups for the festival juries, announced Friday by the Sundance Institute:
U.S. Dramatic • Julie Dash, director of the landmark 1991 film “Daughters of the Dust”; actor Cynthia Erivo, who received an Oscar nomination for playing Harriet Tubman in “Harriet”; and Hanya Yanagihara, who wrote the novels “The People in the Trees” and “A Little Life.”
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Festival runs between Jan. 28 – Feb. 3Brian Welk | January 22, 2021 @ 12:00 PM Last Updated: January 28, 2021 @ 6:55 AM
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“Harriet” star Cynthia Erivo and “Daughters of the Dust” director Julie Dash are among the 22 names selected to oversee the competition juries at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Erivo and Dash will lead the U.S. Dramatic Competition jury this year alongside Hanya Yanagihara, editor of the New York Times Style Magazine and author of the novels “The People in the Trees” and “A Little Life.”
Leading the U.S. Documentary jury are Ashley Clark, a curatorial director at Criterion Collection and formerly the director of film programming at BAM, “The Act of Killing” director Joshua Oppenheimer and Lana Wilson, whose Taylor Swift documentary “Miss Americana” premiered at Sundance last year.
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