Black Films at Sundance 2014

This year's films include Zoe Saldana and Lauryn Hill.

Dear White People - With the Golden Globes over and the Oscars a few weeks away, Hollywood is heading to Park City, Utah to discover the next big thing. The Sundance Film Festival, which has launched the careers of everyone from Middle of Nowhere's Ava DuVernay to Fruitvale Station's Ryan Coogler, starts on January 16. Here are all the Black films at this year's festival.Perhaps the most anticipated is Dear White People, Justin Simien's film about four Black students at an Ivy league university where riots break out over a popular "Blackface" party. The satirical film stars Tyler James Williams and Teyonah Parris.(Photo: Duly Noted, Homegrown Pictures)
Fishing Without Nets - This drama about Somali pirates from the perspective of young, struggling fisherman could be a companion piece to Oscar contender Captain Phillips.(Photo: Think Media Studios)
Hoop Dreams - Steve James' iconoclasic documentary, called the best film of the 1990s by Roger Ebert, comes back to Sundance 20 years after its debut. The film has been completely restored in honor of the anniversary. (Photo: New Line Cinema)
No No: A Dockumentary - This feature-length documentary tells the true story of Dock Ellis, an MLB player who pitched a no-hitter while tripping on acid. The film, on the surface, chronicles the scandal that follows, but also paints a portrait of one of professional baseball's most "unabashedly Black" players. (Photo: Baseball Iconoclasts, LLC)All the Beautiful Things - The story of John and Barron, lifelong friends whose friendship is tested when Barron's girlfriend says Barron put a knife to her throat and raped her, sounds like the stuff of great fiction. But, remarkably, it's all true. This documentary follows what happens to their friendship after John convinces her to go to the police.(Photo: Riff Raff Films)

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Fishing Without Nets - This drama about Somali pirates from the perspective of young, struggling fisherman could be a companion piece to Oscar contender Captain Phillips.(Photo: Think Media Studios)

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