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The improv hip-hop collective Freestyle Love Supreme performs, in a moment from the documentary “We Are Freestyle Love Supreme,” one of the titles in the Special Events line-up at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. (Photo courtesy of Sundance Institut…

The improv hip-hop collective Freestyle Love Supreme performs, in a moment from the documentary “We Are Freestyle Love Supreme,” one of the titles in the Special Events line-up at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. (Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute.)

Hillary Clinton and Lin-Manuel Miranda are big names on 2020 Sundance Film Festival's Special Events line-up

December 10, 2019 by Sean P. Means

You may remember that Hillary Clinton, as she accepted the Democratic party’s nomination to be their presidential candidate in 2016, quoted Lin-Manuel Miranda’s lines from the end of “Hamilton.”

Fate, or the schedulers at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, is working to bring the politician and the playwright together again — at least on the festival’s Special Events roster.

“Hillary,” a four-part documentary series directed by Nanette Burstein, is a highlight of the Special Events line-up. So are two works that involve Miranda: “Siempre, Luis,” which focuses on Miranda’s father, Luis, in his advocacy for Puerto Rico; and “We Are Freestyle Love Supreme,” about the New York improv hip-hop group Miranda co-founded.

Along with the Special Events announcement Tuesday, Sundance also announced the festival’s Indie Episodic titles and the 74 short films slated to screen in January in Park City. Read all about them, at sltrib.com.

December 10, 2019 /Sean P. Means
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