{"id":1788,"date":"2017-08-04T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/08\/04\/how-a-musical-doc-became-one-of-sundances-biggest-acquisitions\/"},"modified":"2017-08-04T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T20:10:00","slug":"how-a-musical-doc-became-one-of-sundances-biggest-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/08\/04\/how-a-musical-doc-became-one-of-sundances-biggest-acquisitions\/","title":{"rendered":"How a &#8216;Musical Doc&#8217; Became One of Sundance\u2019s Biggest Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2017\/08\/step-fox-searchlight-amanda-lipitz-interview\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_medium\/public\/step_documentary_amanda_lipitz_interview.jpg?itok=__S8yjS4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nAmanda Lipitz, director &#8216;Step,&#8217; shot 400+ hours of footage. Here&#8217;s how she did it.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no razzle-dazzle, no fireworks, no mega screens. It\u2019s only high school girls in jeans and T-shirts, stomping and clapping. And yet, the performance on stage is one of the most captivating that you\u2019re likely to see. The work of the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women\u2019s step dance team is so powerful, in fact, that a documentary film about it had members of the cultural elite at Sundance 2017 on their feet, landing a multi-million dollar deal for distribution and remake rights from Fox Searchlight.&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2017\/08\/step-fox-searchlight-amanda-lipitz-interview\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: NoFilmSchool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Amanda Lipitz, director &#8216;Step,&#8217; shot 400+ hours of footage. Here&#8217;s how she did it.&#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; There\u2019s no razzle-dazzle,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-camera"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-sQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}