SUNDANCE: Oprah's OWN Acquires Docu 'Becoming Chaz' About Ex-Chastity Bono
By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 13, 2011 @ 7:47pm PST
(Deadline freelancer Sharon Swart is helping cover the Sundance Film Festival)
http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/sundance-oprahs-own-acquires-becoming-chaz/EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Oprah Winfrey's upstart cable network OWN has acquired Becoming Chaz, the Fenton Bailey/Randy Barbato-directed feature documentary that will make its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and follows the gender reassignment journey that transformed Cher's and the late Sonny Bono's daughter Chastity into their son, Chaz Bono. The network is prepping a soiree up at the festival, where OWN will likely make a formal announcement of this deal. The network has already acquired more than half a dozen documentaries.
