Coming to Netflix this Thursday, June 24:
SISTERS ON TRACK
Director:
Corinne van der Borch, Tone Grøttjord-Glenne
World Premiere:
CPH:DOX 2021
Select Festivals:
Tribeca
About:
Three track star sisters face obstacles in life and in competition as they pursue Olympic dreams.
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Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, June 22:
ECHOES OF THE INVISIBLE
Director:
Steve Elkins
World Premiere:
SXSW 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
GlobeDocs, Environmental Film Festival Australia
About:
Daring explorers embark upon seemingly impossible journeys into the most extreme environments on Earth to find the connective tissue between all things seen and unseen.
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Coming to HBO Max this Thursday, June 24:
LFG
Director:
Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
About:
An inside look at the US women’s national soccer league and their continuing fight for equal pay in an effort to create real change in women’s sports.
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Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, June 22:
Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
Director:
Jeffrey Wolf
World Premiere:
Smithsonian American Art Museum (September 2018)
Select Festivals:
Freep, San Francisco DocFest
About:
The biography of a former Black slave turned celebrated self-taught artist.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
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Festival:
The 19th AFI Docs
Dates:
June 22-27
About:
This Washington DC event showcases approximately 30 new feature and episodic documentaries, presented in a hybrid format.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Overviews, Recommendations
Coming to MUBI today, Monday, June 21:
BE PRETTY AND SHUT UP!
Director:
Delphine Seyrig
World Premiere:
French theatrical release (March 1981)
About:
In 1975 Delphine Seyrig recorded interviews with twenty-four actresses in France and the US, including Maria Schneider, Jane Fonda, and Shirley MacLaine, about their experience across the industry, revealing the frustrations of working within the patriarchal studio system.
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Coming to The WORLD Channel’s America ReFramed tomorrow, Tuesday, June 22:
JACK & YAYA
Director:
Jennifer Bagley
World Premiere:
qFlix Philadelphia 2019
Select Festivals:
Inside Out, Seattle Translations, Hell’s Half Mile, BFI Flare
About:
A portrait of two transgender friends who have known each other since they were toddlers.
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Coming to PBS’s Independent Lens tonight, Monday, June 21:
TWO GODS
Director:
Zeshawn Ali
World Premiere:
Full Frame 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, BlackStar, Montclair, Hot Docs, Camden
About:
A Black Muslim casket maker mentors two boys.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
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Coming to theatres today, Friday, June 18:
THE SPARKS BROTHERS
Director:
Edgar Wright
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
SXSW, Hot Docs, IFF Boston, San Francisco Doc
About:
A tribute to the influential but overlooked band Sparks.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
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Coming to theatres today, Friday, June 18:
A CRIME ON THE BAYOU
Director:
Nancy Buirski
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2020
Select Festivals:
New Orleans, San Francisco Jewish, Big Sky Doc, Atlanta Jewish, Hamptons Docs
About:
An unjustly arrested Black man and his young Jewish attorney form a lifelong friendship.
The film screened as part of DOC NYC, for which our program notes read:
Filmmaker Nancy Buirski tells the story of a lasting bond formed between an unjustly arrested Black man, Gary Duncan, and Richard Sobol, his young Jewish attorney. In 1966, 19-year-old Duncan faces the white supremacist court system in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, for daring to touch a white boy’s arm. Standing united, the pair takes Duncan’s case all the way to the US Supreme Court to fight for the rights of all Americans to a fair trial.
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