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SALT LAKE CITY — On Nov. 8, 2018, a caravan of terrified Paradise, California, residents watched in horror while red-hot embers dashed across the road under a pitch-black sky and a catastrophic wildfire bore down on them. Earlier that day, the Camp Fire sparked northeast of Paradise, and people sat stuck in standstill traffic trying to escape the flames, wondering if they'd make it out in time or if they'd be burned alive in their cars. The scene is depicted through harrowing cellphone video footage and heartbreaking eyewitness accounts in director Lucy Walker's documentary "Bring Your Own ...

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Photograph: David McNew 4 out of 5 stars This California fires documentary is fuelled by curiosity for the infernos’ causes and deep empathy for their victims The LA-based British filmmaker Lucy Walker’s eye-opening and open-eyed doc Bring Your Own Brigade plunges us into the hell of the 2018 Camp and Woolsey fires in California before taking a discursive tour of the patterns and histories behind them. Throughout, the Oscar-nominated director of Countdown to Zero and Waste Land is never far from an startling eyewitness account. She sticks especially close to one resident...

news Sundance Festival opens under shadow of COVID-19 dw.com 29/01/2021 Scott Roxborough Opening film "In the Same Breath," a documentary from Chinese-American director Nanfu Wang, charts the misinformation and propaganda that accompanied the spread of the coronavirus in both Wuhan and Washington. © Sundance Institute/AP/picture alliance Provided by Deutsche Welle In 2021, the whole world is living under the shadow of COVID-19. So it's grimly fitting that this year's Sundance Film Festival opened with a documentary that reminds us how we all got here. In the Same Breath f...

Sundance Festival opens under shadow of COVID-19 Opening film "In the Same Breath," a documentary from Chinese-American director Nanfu Wang, charts the misinformation and propaganda that accompanied the spread of the coronavirus in both Wuhan and Washington. The coronavirus changed the format of Sundance but not its reputation for presenting independent and documentary gems In 2021, the whole world is living under the shadow of COVID-19. So it's grimly fitting that this year's Sundance Film Festival opened with a documentary that reminds us how we all got here. In the Same Breath from direc...