. >> among the most talked about films, christine, by alex campos, starring rebecca hall. a dark drama about a female journalist trying to break into the male-dominated world of 1970 tv news. israeli produced arabic film "sand storm" tells the story, and struggles to reconcile religious beliefs with contemporary relationships. >> birth of the nation takes its name from dw griffith's racist 1915 silent epic, but tells the story of the bloody slave rebellion in virginia, led by african american folk hero. in the documentary division, there's buzz about newtown, taking on the debate about gun violence, focussing on grieving families that lost children in the sandy hook film massacre in 2012. and german film-maker is back with lo and bihold, an off-beat look at the digitized internet connected world humanity made and which is remaking humanity. >> the film industry is waiting to see whether this will surpass 2015. when the grand prize winner, a quirky comingful age winner failed to win big audiences when released in theatres. that shows there's a difference between the bubble

. >> reporter: among the most talked about film this year, "christine," starring rebecca hall.a dark drama about a female journalist. the israeli produced arabic language film "sand storm" tells the story of a bedouin family. "birth of a nation" directed by and starring nate parker, takes its name from the place antly racist 1915 silent epic, but tells the story of the bloody slave rebellion in washington lead by african american folk hero. and there's buzz about "new town," the film takes on the gun violence debate focusing on grieving families that last children in the sandy hook school massacre. the film industry is waiting to see whether this year's sundance will surpass 2015 when the festival's grand prize winner called "me and early and the dying girl," failed to win big audiences when it was released in theaters. >> that shows there is a big difference between the bubble of the sundance film festival and what main stream audiences will be interested in. >> reporter: many of these filmmakers are hoping their labor of love will be the next "blare witch project". >>> the ph

. >> christine, starring rebecca hall, this is a dark drama about a female journalist trying to break into the male-dominated world of 1970 era news. the israeli produced arabic language film sand storm tells the story of a bedouin family and its struggle to recognize its beliefs with contemporary sexual relationships. birth of a nation, directed by and starring nate parker takes its name from d.w. griffith, the blatantly racist 1915 silent epic but tells the story of the bloody slave uprising led by african american folk hero. in the documentary division, there's buzz about new town, taking on the wrenching debate over gun violence, focusing on grieving families that lost children in the sandy hook school massacre in 2012. a legendary german filmmaker is back with lo and behold, off beat look at the digitized internet connected world humanity has made and which is remaking humanity. >> in 2015, the festival's grand prize winner, me and earl and the dying girl failed to win big audiences when it was released in theaters. >> that just shows there's a big difference between the bubble o

. >> reporter: among the most talked about film, "christine," starring rebecca hall.a dark drama about a female journalist trying to break into the male-dominated world of 1970s tv news. the israeli produced film "sand storm" tells the story of a bedouin family and its struggle to reconcile its traditions and religious beliefs with contemporary sexual relationships. "birth of a nation" tells the story of the bloody slave rebellion in virginia lead by african american folk hero nat turner. and legendary german filmmaker is back with "lo and behold" an off-beat look at the digitized interacted world humanity has made, and which is remaking humanity. the film making industry is waiting to see whether this year's sundance will surpass 2015, when the grand prize winner failed to win big audiences when it was released in theaters. >> that just shows there is a big difference between the bubble of the sundance film festival and what main stream audiences are going to be interested in. >> reporter: many of the film mixers are hoping their labor of love will be the next "littl

reporter: among the most talked about films this year, christine, by director alex cam pos stagger rebecca hall it is a dark draum aabout a female journalist trying to break into the male dominated world of 1970s tv news. israeli produced sands storm which tells the story of a family and its struggle to reconcile its traditions and religious beliefs with contemporary sexual relationships. birth of a nation directed by and starring this man takes its name from dw griffiths blatantly racist 1915 silent epic, but tells the story of a bloody slave rebellion in virginia led by nat turner. in the documentary division there's buzz about new town by kim zchneider. it is on gun violence focusing on grieving families that lost children in the sandsy hook school massacre in 201. legendary german film maker is back with lo and behold, a typically off beat look at the digitised interconnected world humanitarian is made and which is remaking humanity. they're waiting to see if this will surpass 2015 when the festival grand prize winner, me and earl and the dying girl, failed to win big audiences when it was

reporter: among the most talked about films this year, christine by director alex campos, starring rebecca hall. it is a dark draum about a female journalist trying to break into the male world dominated news. sandstorm tells the story of a bedwin family and its struggle to reconcile its traditions and religious beliefs with contemporary sexual relationships. birth of a nation directed by and star example nate parker takes its name from dw griffiths blatantly racist 1915 silent epic. in the documentary division there's buzz about newtown by kim zchneider. it is gun violence focusing on grieving family that lost children in the massacre in 2012. another is back with lo and behold, a typically look at the daughter-in-lawing tiesd-- digitised movie. people are waiting to see when the grand prize winner ner will be a hit in the public. you can be sure that many of the film makers walking on these snowy side walks are hoping their labor of love will be the next little miss sunshine, whiplash or bricklayer witch project >>> the latest on that story an everything else, this is where you need to go. al

rebecca hall plays her and she ism and somber and sad look at this woman who has, you know, bipolar and has some issues and back in the '7tion to that kind of stuff. she is trying to get ahead in the world of television and she keeps getting knocked down and fantasticm rebecca hall. >> documentary on the former disgraced weiner. >> you've never been this close to a political scandal before and they follow anthony weiner when he is running for mayor and halfway through a sextingreaks out. you get inside the campaign and you get to see what happens when a scandal breaks out within a campaign. how do they handle it? you're behind closed doors and you're in huma, his wife, who is the tragic character in this film. you really feel for her and you can see what this is putting herny weiner, at one point -- >> i'm surprised they didn't say stop rolling. >> the filmmaker asked him whyng me film this? >> up next they call it a suicide mission for young coast guard men in a small boat charging into the teeth of a rescue dozens of sailors. "the finest hours" is now a roo story when we come back.por

. >> starring rebecca hall, this is a dark drama about a female journalist trying to break into the worldws. the israeli produced arabic language film sand storm tells the story of a bedouin family and its struggle to recognize its beliefs with contemporary sexual relationships. birth of a nation, directed by and starring nate parker takes its name from d.w. griffith, the blatantly racist epic but tells the story. in the documentary division, there's buzz about new town, taking on the wrenching debate over gun violence, focusing on grieving families that lost chirp in the sandy hook school massacre in 2012. legendary german filmmaker is back with lo and behold, off beat look at the digitized interconnected world humanitarian has made and which is remaking humanity. >> in 2015, the festival's grand prize winner, me and earl and the dying girl failed to win big audiences when it was released in theaters. >> that just shows there's a big difference between the bubble of the sun dance film festival and what mainstream audiences are going to be interested in. >> you can be sure many of the fil

. >> reporter: among the most talked about films, christine by alex cam pos, starring rebecca hall. a journalist trying to break into the male dominated world of 1970s news. the sandstorm tells the story of a bedwin family and its struggle to reconcile its fra additions with contemporary sexual relationships. are birth of a nation by nate parker takes its name from the blatantly racist silent epic, but tells the story of the bloody slave rebellion led by nat turner. in the documentary division there's buzz about new town by kim zchneider, a film over gun violence focusing on families that lost children in the sand yp hooks massacre in 2012. another is back with lo and behold, a typical off beat look at the interconnected world that humanity has made. >> reporter: the film industry is waiting to see whether this year's sun dance will surpass 2015 when the grand prize me and earl and the dying girl, failed to make a hit. >> that shows the difference of what the bubble of the festival and what people waactually want. >> reporter: we are focusing as well on documentaries here at sun dan

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hall, council members are gearing up to vote on tougher new gun laws. >> if you want to stop the gun crime, you have to stop the flood of illegal guns. >> city council member rebecca kaplan has teamed up with other city leaders to propose a package of ordinances that would ban all high capacity magazines and require gun owners to safely store their guns in lock boxes both at home and in their cars. >> we can't let guns be left loose where they fall into the hands of criminals. >> every single year, more than 30,000 americans have their lives cut short by guns. >> just this morning, president obama pledged to do more on a national level by taking executive action to crack down on gun violence. in oakland, where shootings have become far too common, people say something needs to change. >> it's not a black thing. it's not a white thing. everybody is killing. everybody is killing. and at some point and day and age, it needs to stop. >> now, the crackdown on gun violence just got very personal for one member of the city council. council president lynette gibson just lost her 17-year-old grandson to gun violence, just days before christmas. we just talked to her inside

. >> and rebecca, errol with you on this breaking story of david bowie passing at the age of 69. you talk about an album he just released. he was also to be honored at carnegie halle not too far away. talk to us about his career. we hadn't seen much of him of late, but he was almost preparing for another act, you could say. >> yeah, i think so. he had appearances lined up. he has a musical currently. he wrote an off broadway musical that's running right now in new york. it's running until i think for the next ten days. very much somebody who was not preparing to wind down. so it's unclear. i don't know if his cancer took a sudden push the way these things sometimes do, or if he just didn't want -- he wanted to keep working until he could no longer do so, and so -- but certainly, you know, after a period of -- he was relatively quiet, i would say, up until 2013, and then he came out with an album, the new day, which did well. and then now another album two years later. i feel like we were about to see more from david bowie. but until this happened. >> and that's what makes this all the more heart breaking. talk to us. what do you know about why david bowie went qu