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Brother’s Keeper (1992)

EPISODE 007: Sundance '92 Selection Ranked

American documentary filmmaking emerged as earlier as film equipment became widely available and affordable. Many young filmmakers sought a collective resurgence in a new era of American cinema, now broadly accessible -- this time it helmed at the heart and gut of independent filmmaking. The quintessential roots of American independent cinema can be found in the films selected for the Sundance Film Festival of 1992, which is available on the Criterion Collection Channel. In this episode on LA CINEASTE, we will sort through and essentially rank the 25 captivating films in the 1992 Sundance Selection. Though many auteurs exceeded with accolades and impressed the new age, others found challenges along the way.

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Brother’s Keeper (1992) 

Um riacho em West Memphis, Arkansas, revela o impensável em 1993: os corpos de três meninos de oito anos, brutalmente assassinados. A resposta da pequena e conservadora comunidade do Bible Belt é imediata e visceral, exigindo culpados que correspondam à dimensão do horror. A investigação, impulsionada por uma onda de pânico satânico que varria o país, rapidamente se volta para três adolescentes…