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Grantee film about police raid on Kansas newspaper to premiere at Sundance

A still from Seized by Sharon Liese, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Jackson Montemayor.

“Seized,” a feature documentary about the police raid on a Kansas newspaper, will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January. The film, directed and produced by Sharon Liese, with support from the Fund, takes viewers inside the police raid on the Marion County Record newsroom, which captured national attention. It unfolds in real time through police body-cam and surveillance footage, revealing the raid’s chaos, the bombshells that followed and the devastating personal toll on the newsroom, including the tragic death of its 98-year-old co-owner.