The Sundance documentaries making a splash with viewers — and buyers

Welcome to a special Sundance Daily edition of the Wide Shot, a newsletter about the business of entertainment. The movies worth standing in line for A scene from “Daughters.” “Daughters” Premiering Monday in the U.S. documentary competition, “Daughters,” directed by Angela Patton and Natalie Rae and executive produced by Kerry Washington, culminates with an emotional father-daughter dance inside a Washington, D.C., jail — but its real potency, as both a portrait of families riven by incarceration and a call to action on prisoners’ rights, lies in what comes before and after. —Jen Yamato Movers and shakers from around the fest Henry R. Muñoz III of “In the Summers” and Funny or Die, photographed at the L.A. Times Studios at Sundance. He’s made his presence felt quickly, having shifted Funny or Die’s focus away from the viral comedy videos that first made its reputation and toward a new deployment of the old acronym, producing film and TV projects that are “Funny, Original and Diverse.” He’s nailing the entertainment thing across the board, in fact — he just won an Emmy for the Weird Al Yankovic biopic, was nominated for Tony Awards as a producer for “Some Like It Hot” and “New York, New York,” and is at Sundance as the executive producer on the feature film “ In the Summers,” starring René Pérez Joglar. Where you’ll find us in Park City today Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun in “Love Me.” Monday at Sundance means business.