Documentary about raid on Kansas newspaper to premiere at Sundance Film Festival

A documentary about a police raid of the Marion County Record in 2023 is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2026.

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December 26, 2025 - 1:21 PM

Marion County Record editor-publisher Eric Meyer takes a smoke break Oct. 15, 2025, at his newspaper office after a preliminary hearing for former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody. A documentary crew films in the distance. Photo by Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector

LAWRENCE — A documentary about the police raid of the Marion County Record is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2026, more than two years after law enforcement stormed the newspaper office, the publisher’s home and a city councilwoman’s home.

Director and producer Sharon Liese says the film looks beyond the First Amendment implications of the raids and dives deeper into the small town of Marion in a way the public hasn’t seen before. She called it “a canary in a coal mine” type of story.

“The story that we eventually told is not what…

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