Coming to theatres today, Monday, October 10:
TAMING THE GARDEN
Director:
Salomé Jashi
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
Berlin, CPH:DOX, New Directors/New Films, Shanghai, Cinéma du Réel
About:
An artful look at the unusual disruption caused by the removal and transport of several massive trees from small Georgian villages.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to PBS’s POV tonight, Monday, Oct 10:
ACCEPTED
Director:
Dan Chen
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
Select Festivals:
New Orleans, Double Exposure, Hot Springs Doc, Full Frame, Cleveland, San Diego Asian, Los Angeles Asian Pacific, Sidewalk, Denver
About:
The ambitious students of the TM Landry Prep School enjoyed a remarkable 100% acceptance rate into the country’s most elite colleges until an explosive New York Times article exposed the controversial teaching methods of its dynamic founder.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, October 7:
LAST FLIGHT HOME
Director:
Ondi Timoner
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
Telluride, BFI London, Woodstock
About:
An examination of Eli Timoner’s life and intentional death and his family’s emotional turmoil as they grapple with his decision to end his own life.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to Showtime today, Friday, October 7:
THE LINCOLN PROJECT
Director:
Fisher Stevens, Karim Amer
World Premiere:
Showtime (October 2022)
About:
A docuseries following a veteran group of former GOP operatives and strategists known publicly as the Lincoln Project, the fastest-growing super PAC in America, as it takes on the task of “saving democracy” and defeating their own party’s sitting president, Donald Trump.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Netflix tomorrow, Friday, October 7:
CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE JEFFREY DAHMER TAPES
Director:
Joe Berlinger
World Premiere:
Netflix (October 2022)
About:
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, October 7:
BATTLEGROUND
Director:
Cynthia Lowen
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
About:
Heading distinctly different anti-choice organizations, three women lead the charge in their single-minded quest to overturn Roe v Wade.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID this Friday, October 7:
BLUE ISLAND
Director:
Chan Tze Woon
World Premiere:
Rotterdam 2022
Select Festivals:
New Directors/New Films, Hot Docs, Taiwan Doc
About:
A docufiction exploring Hong Kong’s protest movement and ensuing crackdown in the context of its history of rebellion.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to AMC+ this Friday, October 7:
OUR AMERICAN FAMILY
Director:
Hallee Adelman, Sean King O’Grady
World Premiere:
Woodstock 2021
Select Festivals:
Philadelphia
About:
An honest, unfiltered look at a close-knit Philadelphia family dealing with generational substance abuse.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to The WORLD Channel’s America ReFramed tomorrow, Thursday, October 6:
LA MANPLESA: AN UPRISING REMEMBERED
Director:
Ellie Walton
Select Festivals:
AFI Latin American, San Diego Latino, Festival de Cine Latino Americano, Bethesda
About:
Testimony, song, poetry, and street theater explores the collective memory of the 1991 rebellion that took place in a Washington DC Latinx neighborhood to protest the police shooting of a young Salvadoran man.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID this Thursday, October 6:
SCHEME BIRDS
Director:
Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2019
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Hot Docs, Sydney, Biografilm, DMZ Docs, Zurich, Vancouver, Docs Against Gravity, Thessaloniki Doc, Taiwan Doc
About:
As her childhood turns into motherhood, teenage troublemaker Gemma comes of age in her fading Scottish steel town – but in a place where “you either get knocked up or locked up,” innocent games can easily turn into serious crime.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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