smack in the middle of award season, hollywood heads to park city, utah, for the annual sundance festival. it s celebrating its 30th anniversary, and it will showcase 117 feature-length projects, including several performances from hollywood a-listers. one movie on the radar, war story. it s the tale of an american war photographer who s dealing with the effects of ptsd after being taken hostage during a conflict in libya. cnn s miguel marquez is live inside the cnn lounge in park city, utah, lucky fellow, accompanied by one of the stars of the film, catherine keener. miguel? hey there, marty. this is the hottest ticket in sundance, the cnn film s lounge. i am here with catherine keener, who has this stunning film, this tough film in the next category for sundance. thank you. about a woman who s been through hell, and she s trying to deal with it. what is this film about?
all powerful. people like that in the cnn films lounge. rory kennedy has been here times with films. this film has unbelievable access to video and footage of the escape from vietnam in the final days. the last 24 hours of it is like a countdown and a thriller and they talked about the film a short time ago. this story, the story i told hasn t been told before which is a remarkable thing given it was the final days of the vietnam war. we left the country very quickly. because of that, the u.s. policy was to just get the americans out and to leave all the vietnamese behind who helped us and worked with us and collaborated with us. our story is about the americans on the ground who risk their lives going against u.s. policy to do everything it could to save the vietnamese. it s extraordinarily heroic, the
one film getting a lot of buzz right now. last days of vietnam. it s a remarkable story. many of us have never heard before. watch this. they borrowed a truck and i drove them to the air base. i told them when you hear three thumps, that means hole the baby s mouths and don t breathe or talk or make any noise. we are going through the post. last days of vietnam is a compelling look at how thousands of people were rescued in the fall of saigon at the end of the vietnam war. miguel marquez is over at the sundance film festival. what a great assignment you have. you spoke to rory kennedy who made the film. what struck you the most about this story? it is an amazing story. i should note for the record, we are in the cnn films lounge. this is the hottest ticket in town. famous people like this.