Coming to OVID today, Tuesday, October 18:
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.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to FUSE tomorrow, Tuesday, October 18:
WHITE COAT REBELS
Director:
Greg Barker
World Premiere:
AFI Docs 2021
Select Festivals:
Cleveland
About:
This probing look inside the medical profession examines the outsized influence of Big Pharma and the courageous insiders who are pushing back against the powers that be.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, October 18:
THE BOOK KEEPERS
Director:
Phil Wall
World Premiere:
Austin 2020
Select Festivals:
Napa Valley, Savannah, Chagrin Doc, DocUtah
About:
A father and son crisscross the country to fulfill a dying wish, ensure a legacy, and find solace after tragic personal loss.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Tuesday, October 18:
MAMA’S BOY
Director:
Laurent Bouzereau
World Premiere:
NewFest 2022
About:
Academy Award-winner Dustin Lance Black explores his upbringing and pays tribute to his mother, who became the inspiration for his activism.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to PBS’s POV tonight, Monday, Oct 17:
AN ACT OF WORSHIP
Director:
Nausheen Dadabhoy
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
Select Festivals:
Portland, New Hampshire
About:
A lyrical portrait of the last 20 years of Muslim life in America as told through the lens of Muslims living in the United States.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, October 14:
SOPHIA
Director:
Crystal Moselle, Jon Kasbe
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
Select Festivals:
Mill Valley
About:
A look at the spirited pursuits of David Hanson, a restless inventor aiming to perfect the world’s most life-like AI.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, October 14:
CAT DADDIES
Director:
Mye Hoang
World Premiere:
Dallas 2021
Select Festivals:
Heartland, Seattle, Newport Beach, Hawaii, Big Sky Doc, Milwaukee, Cleveland
About:
A portrait of eight men whose lives have been changed by their love for cats.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, October 14:
SCRAP
Director:
Stacey Tenenbaum
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2022
About:
An exploration of places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world’s scrap.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, October 14:
THE PICTURE TAKER
Director:
Phil Bertelsen
World Premiere:
Woodstock 2022
Select Festivals:
Montclair
About:
The story of photographer Ernest Withers, who chronicled the African American experience during Jim Crow and the birth of the Civil Rights Movement – and was also secretly an FBI informant.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, October 14:
SEPA: NUESTRO SEÑOR DE LOS MILAGROS
Director:
Walter Saxer
World Premiere:
Internationale Hofer Filmtage 1986
Select Festivals:
Solothurn
About:
A profile of an experimental open-air penal colony in the Peruvian Amazon.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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