Black Sundance: Movies You Should Know at This Year's Festival

Southside With You, Sleight, Morris From America and more.

Kiki - Deemed by critics as the new-age Paris Is Burning, Kiki is a documentary which follows the lives of a group of Black and Latino youths who religiously participate in the dance of voguing, which they have heralded as "kiki." In addition to the dancing, the film also touches on police brutality and HIV and AIDS.(Photo: Hard Working Movies)
As You Are - Our favorite young activist Alamdla Stenberg is co-starring in As You Are, targeted towards a teen audience. The drama follows three high school friends who are involved in an incident that calls for a full-on police investigation.(Photo: Votiv Films)
Maya Angelou and Still I Rise - Before making its official television debut on PBS in the spring, the documentary Maya Angelou and Still I Rise will premiere at Sundance. Proving that this is definitely something worth seeing, filmmakers Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack said "this will be the first feature documentary to tell the full story." In addition to telling the late laureate's amazing story, some of her admirers, like Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton and Cicely Tyson, also make apperances.(Photo: Kris Connor/Getty Images)
O.J.: Made in America - O.J. Simpson's story is continuing to captivate America, and now with the documentary O.J.: Made in America set to premiere at Sundance before its ESPN television premiere, many are beginning to take notice. While this is the second time the former NFL running back is given the doc treatment, this time around, more details will be unveiled.(Photo: ESPN)

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As You Are - Our favorite young activist Alamdla Stenberg is co-starring in As You Are, targeted towards a teen audience. The drama follows three high school friends who are involved in an incident that calls for a full-on police investigation.(Photo: Votiv Films)

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