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Austin’s Sundance star
Austin filmmaker Margaret Brown’s new documentary “The Order of Myths” will vie in the documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival.
Brown’s film, about this year’s Mardi Gras celebration in Mobile, Ala., competes against 15 other docs, including portraits of Patti Smith, Hunter S. Thompson and Roman Polanski, and was selected from 953 entries. Brown’s first feature doc was 2004’s critically acclaimed “Be Here to Love Me: A Movie About Townes Van Zandt.”
Sundance runs Jan. 17-27 in Park City, Utah.
Read the full report, including the list of Brown’s prestigious competitors, HERE.
Stay posted for more Austin auteurs at Sundance as films are announced.
Update, Nov. 29: The Sundance site describes Brown’s film like this: “In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated … and complicated. Following a cast of characters, parades, and parties across an enduring color line, we see that beneath the surface of pageantry lies something else altogether.”
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