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The 2007 Sundance Film Festival opens in Park City, Utah

Crossing the Line The festival got underway yesterday with Brett Morgen's documentary Chicago 10, about the events surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention in the US, when Vietnam War protestors clashed with police. Morgen - director of The Kid Stays in the Picture - mixes animation with archive, the film recreates the story of the protests and the infamous trial that followed.

Highlights include My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev's film about child art prodigy/ elaborate hoax Marla Olmstead, while Academy Award winner Steven Okazaki (Days of Waiting) revisits the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the aftermath with White Light/ Black Rain.

In the World Documentary Competition, the result of filmmaker Dan Gordon's latest trip to Korea - Crossing the Line - screens in competition. The story of James Dresnok, a private in the US Army who defected to North Korea at the height of the Cold War, is a portrait of the last man standing: the only American defector still living in North Korea. Crossing the Line was the Surprise Film at last year's Sheffield DocFest, where it screened to a packed audience and a great response. Gordon's previous films include The Game of Their Lives (about the original members of the 1966 North Korean World Cup Team) and A State of Mind , following two young gymnasts in North Korea as they prepare for the Mass Games.

A full list of the documentaries in both competitions is below.

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To find out more about Dan Gordon, see the DFGdocs/Directory.

Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait Documentary Competition

Banished
Director: Marco Williams

Chasing Ghosts
Director: Lincoln Ruchti

Crazy Love
Director: Dan Klores

Everything's Cool
Director: Daniel B. Gold, Judith Helfand

For the Bible Tells Me So
Director: Daniel Karslake

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Director: Rory Kennedy

Girl 27
Director: David Stenn

Hear and Now
Director: Irene Taylor Brodsky

Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
Director: Jason Kohn

My Kid Could Paint That
Director: Amir Bar-Lev

Nanking
Director: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman

No End in Sight
Director: Charles Ferguson

Protagonist
Director: Jessica Yu

War/Dance
Director: Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine

White Light/Black Rain
Director: Steven Okazaki

Zoo
Director: Robinson Devor

World Documentary Competition

Acidente
Directors: Cao Guimarães, Pablo Lobato

Bajo Juarez, the city devouring its daughters
Directors: José Antonio Cordero, Alejandra Sánchez

Cocalero
Director: Alejandro Landes

Comrades in Dreams
Director: Uli Gaulke

Crossing the Line
Director: Daniel Gordon

Enemies of Happiness
Directors: Anja Al Erhayem, Eva Mulvad

Hot House
Director: Shimon Dotan

In the Shadow of the Moon
Director: David Sington

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Director: Julien Temple

Manufactured Landscapes
Director: Jennifer Baichwal

The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun
Director: Pernille Rose Grønkjær
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On a Tightrope
Director: Petr Lom

Three Comrades
Director: Masha Novikova

A Very British Gangster
Director: Donal Mac Intyre

VHS--Kahloucha
Director: Nejib Belkadhi

Welcome Europa
Director: Bruno Ulmer

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