Coming to PBS’s Independent Lens tonight, Monday, May 9:
WHEN CLAUDE GOT SHOT
Director:
Brad Lichtenstein
World Premiere:
SXSW 2021
Select Festivals:
Milwaukee, Hot Springs Doc, St Louis, Portland
About:
Three strangers’ lives become inextricably entwined by a weekend of gun violence.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to NYC’s Rooftop Films tonight, Monday, May 9:
HOLD YOUR FIRE
Director:
Stefan Forbes
World Premiere:
Toronto 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Palm Springs
About:
Captives, cops, and robbers in New York City’s longest hostage siege reflect in this suspenseful and enlightening take on an event long misunderstood.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations
Coming to Showtime tonight, Friday, May 6:
SHERYL
Director:
Amy Scott
World Premiere:
SXSW 2022
About:
An intimate story of song and sacrifice—musically gifted superstar Sheryl Crow navigates an iconic yet arduous musical career battling sexism, ageism, depression, cancer, and the price of fame, before harnessing the power of her gift.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Netflix today, Friday, May 6:
LIKE A ROLLING STONE: THE LIFE & TIMES OF BEN FONG-TORRES
Director:
Suzanne Joe Kai
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
Select Festivals:
Los Angeles Asian Pacific, San Diego Asian, Heartland
About:
An intimate profile of the Rolling Stone writer and editor, who defined the cultural zeitgeist of the 1960s and ’70s.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD today, Friday, May 6:
JANE BY CHARLOTTE
Director:
Charlotte Gainsbourg
World Premiere:
Cannes 2021
Select Festivals:
New York, Deauville, Jerusalem, San Sebastian, Doclisboa, São Paulo, Warsaw, Jihlava, Tallinn Black Nights, Torino, Taipei Golden Horse, Stockholm
About:
The filmmaker makes a portrait of her famed mother Jane Birkin.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to DVD and VOD this week:
WORKHORSE QUEEN
Director:
Angela Washko
World Premiere:
Slamdance 2021
Select Festivals:
Calgary Underground, San Francisco Doc, DocEdge, Florida, Milwaukee, LGBT fests in Austin, Tel Aviv, Vancouver
About:
After being cast on RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE, 47-year old suburban telemarketer Ed Popil leaves his job to pursue a full-time entertainment industry career as his drag queen alter ego, 1960s era housewife Mrs Kasha Davis.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to The WORLD Channel’s AfroPoP series tonight, Thursday, May 5:
REVOLUTION FROM AFAR
Director:
Bentley Brown
World Premiere:
Sudan Independent 2020
Select Festivals:
DC Black, Cinemambulante, New York African, Zanzaibar, Hip Hop, Denver
About:
Through performance and conversation, Sudanese-American poets and musicians explore third culture identity and the revolution in Sudan.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Apple TV+ this Friday, May 6:
THE BIG CONN
Director:
James Lee Hernandez, Brian Lazarte
World Premiere:
SXSW 2022
About:
A docuseries revealing the unbelievable true story of the larger-than-life attorney, Eric C Conn, who stole over half a billion dollars in the largest Social Security fraud case in history.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres and VOD this Friday, May 6:
WUHAN WUHAN
Director:
Yung Chang
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2021
Select Festivals:
CAAMFest, DOXA, Los Angeles Asian Pacific, Sarasota, Milwaukee, Minnesota-St Paul, DocEdge, Sebastopol Doc
About:
A look at Wuhan, China, at the peak of the pandemic lockdown, revealing the emotions and resilience at the core of our shared humanity.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to The WORLD Channel’s America Reframed tomorrow, Thursday, May 5:
DAUGHTER OF A LOST BIRD
Director:
Brooke Pepion Swaney
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2021
Select Festivals:
Milwaukee, Atlanta, Seattle, ImagineNative, Big Sky Doc, Human Rights Watch, Cleveland, Heartland, Woodstock, Vancouver
About:
A woman, raised by an adopted white family since she was a baby, discovers her Native identity.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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