…These were the four most-talked-about films from opening weekend…On the third day of Sundance, the Festival tweeted, “We have been subject to a cyberattack that has shut down our box office. Our artist’s voices will be heard and the show will go on.” The festival’s online ticketing system was down for about an hour—and it was hard not to imagine that it could have had something to do with an explosive documentary that premiered the night before.
Documentary filmmaker Bryan Fogel began work on his startling, game-changing film Icarus as a relatively simple Morgan Spurlock-style stunt: In order to expose the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs, he would use PED’s himself, under the supervision of an expert who knew how to get around the rules.