Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Tuesday, December 6:
UNVEILED: SURVIVING LA LUZ DEL MUNDO
Director:
Jennifer Tiexiera
World Premiere:
HBO/HBO Max (December 2022)
About:
A docuseries exploring the horrifying, yet relatively unknown story of the Christian church La Luz del Mundo and the sexual abuse that scores of members, many of them minors, say they have suffered at the hands of its successive leaders, known as the “Apostles.”
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, December 6:
BANKSY MOST WANTED
Director:
Aurélia Rouvier, Seamus Haley
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, El Gouna, Philadelphia, Warsaw, Mill Valley, Sidewalk, Encounters
About:
The ultimate film about the mysterious rebel artist.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Monday, December 5:
BROADWAY RISING
Director:
Amy Rice
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
About:
Charting the Broadway community’s journey from the almost overnight shut down due to the pandemic to the paths essential theater workers took on their road back to the stage.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, December 2:
TANTURA
Director:
Alon Schwarz
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, It’s All True, Cleveland, Docaviv, Hong Kong, Hot Springs Doc, Doclisboa, Philadelphia
About:
In 1948, when the State of Israel was established, hundreds of Palestinian villages were destroyed, with their inhabitants killed or exiled. The film focuses on one village: Tantura, bringing to light Israel’s founding narrative and its society’s inability to come to terms with its dark past.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to Netflix today, Friday, December 2:
SR.
Director:
Chris Smith
World Premiere:
Telluride 2022
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, New York, Camden, Montclair, Philadelphia, AFI Fest
About:
A tender and fittingly irreverent portrait of the life and career of Robert Downey Sr, the fearless, visionary American director who set the standard for counterculture comedy in the sixties and seventies.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, December 2:
2ND CHANCE
Director:
Ramin Bahrani
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
SXSW, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, Thessaloniki Doc, Santa Barbara, Tokyo, Nantucket
About:
An exploration of the rise and fall of Richard Davis, the charming and brash inventor of the modern-day bulletproof vest who shot himself 192 times to prove his product worked.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, December 2:
FRAMING AGNES
Director:
Chase Joynt
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
Outfest, Provincetown, Cleveland, BFI Flare, Seattle, Vancouver, Queerlisboa, Hot Springs Doc, Montclair, Bergen, Ashland
About:
After discovering case files from a 1950s gender clinic, a cast of transgender actors turn a talk show inside out to confront the legacy of a young trans woman forced to choose between honesty and access.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, December 2:
LYNCH/OZ
Director:
Alexandre O Philippe
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
Select Festivals:
Sydney, Traverse City, Bucheon, Deauville, Fantastic Fest, Reykjavik, BFI London, Sitges, Rio, Doclisboa, Bergen, Ghent, Philadelphia, Taipei Golden Horse, Mar del Plata, Stockholm,
About:
An exploration of how Victor Fleming’s 1939 film THE WIZARD OF OZ is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to VOD tomorrow, Friday, December 2:
CLEAN SLATE
Director:
Jared Callahan
World Premiere:
Atlanta 2021
Select Festivals:
San Francisco DocFest, Nashville
About:
Two friends in a Southern drug recovery program struggle to come to terms with their addiction and mental illness by making a short film about the pain they’ve caused their families.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres this Friday, December 2:
LOWNDES COUNTY AND THE ROAD TO BLACK POWER
Director:
Geeta Gandbhir, Sam Pollard
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
Select Festivals:
Camden, BlackStar, St Louis
About:
The story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power, in Lowndes County, Alabama.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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