Davis Guggenheim, director of An Inconvenient Truth and this year's music documentary It Might Get Loud, has made the first sale of the Sundance Film Festival, signing his new film Waiting For Superman to Paramount.
The film looks at America's public schools in a way that's a sort of cross between An Inconvenient Truth's analytic approach and Spellbound's kid-focused tactics, following Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily through different schools to look at their experiences and the system as a whole.
Whether such a US-centric film will ever be released over here is another question, but as much as the premieres last night, this deal signals that Sundance is on, baby.