Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe latest project from celebrated filmmaker Nanfu Wang, about the early days of the coronavirus outbreak in China and its spread to the U.S., will release this year from HBO Documentary Films.Titled “In the Same Breath,” HBO came on board as a producer and distributor at the start of production of the film with Wang, who won Sundance’s grand jury prize for documentary in 2019 with the acclaimed “One Child Nation.” The film will debut at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on Thursday.Wang assembled a brave team of field producers, camera operators and subjects on the ground of a heavily-censored China to investigate the shadowy media campaign executed by the government in alleged attempts to conceal early.
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