Who among us wouldn't love spending more time with Mister Rogers?
To see what happened behind the scenes of his game-changing children's program filmed in Pittsburgh, getting some insider info?
Well, the latest documentary from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville ("20 Feet from Stardom") does just that. His film,
"Won't You Be My Neighbor?"
takes a deeper look into America's favorite neighbor: Mister Fred Rogers.
And the 94-minute film will have its world premiere Jan. 19 at the 2018
Sundance Film Festival
in Park City, Utah.
Per a press release from Focus Features, the documentary "takes us beyond the zip-up cardigans and the land of make-believe, and into the heart of a creative genius who inspired generations of children with compassion and limitless imagination."
Here's a quick preview:
During his years on the air, Rogers used puppets and games to get to the heart of some serious issues — race, disability, equality and tragedy. He spoke directly to kids. To us.
Neville's film uses animated sequences peppered between archival footage of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" and interviews with Rogers' family, friends and colleagues.
The Sundance Film Festival began in 1985 and takes place in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Sundance, Utah. About 200 feature-length and short films are selected each year. Last year, there were 13,782 film submissions from 147 countries.