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(Deadline freelancer Sharon Swart is helpingcover the Sundance Film Festival) 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 daughter Chastity Bono into her 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. Oprah's chief content officer Lisa Erspamer will be at the fest looking for more. More importantly for the film, Chastity Bono will be on hand ...(read more)