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Though the child of one of the most famous actors to have ever graced the silver screen (Robert, in case you couldn’t tell) – James Redford is forming a reputation for himself as a unique and skilled documentary maker, and his latest picture The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia is yet another commendable achievement. Ahead of the premiere – taking place on Thursday 17th October at The Prince Charles Cinema in Central London, we had the opportunity to speak to the director.

Redford discusses why dyslexia is an important subject for him to explore, his own foundation for transplant awareness – and about his forthcoming project, Toxic Hot Seat.

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At 10, Dylan Redford, grandson of Robert, could barely read or write. His story features in a revealing and touching documentary about the condition made by his father, James

On the face of it, Dylan Redford has everything going for him – he is a handsome, intelligent and artistic 22-year-old who happens to be the grandson of Robert Redford. But he is also severely dyslexic and, at the age of 10, could barely read or write.

At school in Marin County, California, he found it impossible to use the lockers. The combination of remembering a sequence of numbers and then twisting the padlock dial in the right direction proved difficult to master. "It was just all bad," says Dylan. "I had to ask my friends to do it for me."

Dylan's experiences with dyslexia are depicted in a new documentary, The Big Picture, directed by Dylan's father, James. After watching his "intellectually curious...

As noted in the roundup of trailers for the films competing at Sundance, these collections can be a pretty cumbersome load. So I've split the whole bunch into two batches. Again, the trailers for Competition films are here.

New Frontier

Denis Côté's Bestiaire

Terence Nance's An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

Weston Currie's The Perception of Moving Targets

Eve Sussman's whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir

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Destin Daniel Cretton's I Am Not a Hipster

David and Nathan Zellner's Kid-Thing

Carrie Preston's That What She Said

Laurence Thrush's Pursuit of Loneliness

Park City At Midnight

Don Coscarelli's John Dies at the End

Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace's Shut Up and Play the Hits

Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim's Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie

Premieres

Rodrigo Cortés's Red Lights

Documentary Premieres

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders's About Face

James Redford's The D Word: Understanding Dyslexia

Mark Kitchell...