Not to take anything away from filmmaker Dana Nachman, but her new documentary certainly benefits from the timing of its release.
The film focuses on the 107-year-old Operation Santa program run by the U.S. Postal Service, which incorporates volunteers from around the country to answer children's letters to Santa Claus and, in many cases, to deliver the gifts they've requested.
Dear Santa, being showcased at the DOC NYC festival before its theatrical release next month, opens with the cheerful strains of "We Need a Little Christmas," and boy, do we ever.
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