PopMatters's video: Clip from Jonathan Caouette s Walk Away Renee PopMatters Exclusive

Jonathan Sehring, President of Sundance Selects and its digital sister, SundanceNOW and Thom Powers, curator for SundanceNOW's Doc Club, announced on Thursday that director Jonathan Caouette's documentary WALK AWAY RENEE will have its North American premiere as part of the website's new SVOD (Subscriber Video-on-Demand) program Doc Club. The film, which premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and is the follow-up to Caouette's 2004 groundbreaking hit TARNATION, will be released simultaneous with its North American Premiere on Wednesday, June 27th at BAMcinemaFest 2012. Doc Club subscribers will be able to download or stream the film as part of the June offerings entitled UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL or the film can be rented on SundanceNOW for $6.99. In WALK AWAY RENEE, Caouette embarks on a road trip to move his mentally ill motherRenee across the country. As they encounter roadblocks in the present, we begin to flash back to moments from the past, giving us insight into this anything-but-ordinary mother/son relationship. Through musical montage, psychedelic sequences and real and imagined circumstance, the film raises questions about love, sacrifice, and the reality in which we live.