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Sundance Film Festival: Kid scientists are double the fun in 'Science Fair' and 'Inventing Tomorrow'

PARK CITY, Utah - The Sundance Film Festival is picky, and it can afford to be.

Out of the 3,901 feature-length films submitted this year, only 110 were selected. So the odds that two documentaries that focus on the same event in the same year would both be chosen are too astronomical to calculate.

Except this year, maybe for the first time ever, it happened.

Both "Inventing Tomorrow," directed by Laura Nix in the U.S. documentary competition, and "Science Fair," co-directed by Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster in the kids section, take viewers to the 2017 Los Angeles

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