Three socially conscious Canadian docs have made the cut for Sundance which on Thursday unveiled its full lineup, nodding to Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma, from Toronto’s White Pine Pictures, and Up the Yangtze!, from Montreal-based EyeSteelFilm.

The Buenos Aires-shot Les femmes de la Brukman, from Montreal’s Les productions ISCA, was also selected. All three will unspool in the world cinema documentary competition.

Triage and Up the Yangtze! are copros with the NFB. Both played well earlier this week at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam. Though, for relative newcomer EyeSteelFilm (The Street, Chairman George), getting into Sundance stands to further raise its profile, says Yangtze co-producer John Christou.

‘Working out of Montreal, it’s sometimes hard to get the kind of visibility you’d get from working out of Toronto or L.A.,’ he tells Playback Daily, adding that there are more promotional tools available to French filmmakers in Quebec.

Yangtze!, about the controversial Three Gorges Dam project in China, will be released theatrically in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver in February, according to Christou, who says EyeSteelFilm is self-distributing with the help of Toronto’s KinoSmith Films and the NFB.

‘[Sundance] will also help us get a U.S. distributor,’ he adds. Yangtze! is directed by Yung Chang and follows a cruise ship filled with tourists down the Chinese river, past cities, villages and farms about to be flooded by the massive hydroelectricity project.

Meanwhile, Brukman director and screenwriter Isaac Isitan says he’s ‘very happy’ that his film is headed to Sundance, noting the production is still in the midst of color correcting the unfinished doc, about Argentinean workers who take over a men’s clothing factory following the country’s financial collapse.

The film is a collaboration with Radio-Canada, which liked the project ‘from the very beginning,’ says Isitan.

Triage has its world premiere at IDFA on Saturday, and centers on Toronto-based doctor James Orbinski, former president of Doctors Without Borders and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

The 27th Sundance Film Festival runs Jan. 17-27 in Park City, Utah.