Netflix Arrives at Sundance Film Festival With Nina Simone Documentary

The 2015 Sundance Film Festival kicked-off Thursday evening with a documentary about the singer and activist Nina Simone produced by Netflix, a reflection of the video-streaming platforms' outsized presence in an industry it has transformed. Adam Del Deo, Director of Original Documentary and Comedy at Netflix, told TheStreet that "the pedigree to the whole project" is what inspired Netflix to underwrite and finance the film. 'What Happened, Miss Simone' played to a packed audience at the festival's largest venue, the Eccles Theater, concluding in a boisterous ovation for the director Liz Garbus, and similarly emphatic applause for its underwriter, the onetime video-streaming upstart based in Los Gatos, Calif. TheStreet's Leon Lazaroff reports from Park City, Utah.