Michael J. Fox doc to debut at Sundance

Sundance Film Festival unveils lineup for 2023 edition

Documentaries about Brooke Shields, Judy Blume and Michael J. Fox, films from veteran directors like Nicole Holofcener, an adaptation of the viral New Yorker story “Cat Person,” and the feature directing debuts of actors Alice Englert and Randall Park are among the world premieres set for the Sundance Film Festival in January.

Programmers announced the lineup for the 2023 edition on Wednesday. After two pandemic hobbled years, plans are in motion to return to Park City in full force Jan. 19 through 29.

Lana Wilson’s “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields” charts the actor and model’s early days, when photographers and filmmakers sexualized Shieldsas a very young girl, and how she found her agency. Davis Guggenheim in “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie” looks at what happens when “an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease.” There are also documentaries about Little Richard, food writer Ruth Reichl, pioneering Black fashion model Bethann Hardison and the Indigo Girls.

In the U.S. Dramatic Competition, in which “CODA” debuted in 2021 before winning Best Picture at the Oscars, Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman make their debut with “Theater Camp,” a Will Ferrell- produced comedy. Jonathan Majors plays a bodybuilder in Elijah Bynum’s “Magazine Dreams,” while Daisy Ridley shows her non-“Star Wars” chops in Rachel Lambert’s “Sometimes I Think About Dying.”

“Shortcomings,” an adaptation of Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel, is the directing debut of “Fresh Off the Boat” star Park, who directs Justin H. Min, Sherry Cola and Ally Maki.