Coming to DVD this coming Tuesday, February 7: KNUCKLE
Ian Palmer’s longitudinal portrait of the Irish Traveller community premiered at last year’s Sundance. It went on to screen extensively at festivals as well as in theatrical release in the UK, Ireland, and the US.
My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.
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Now on VOD via iTunes: SYNC OR SWIM
Cheryl Furjanic’s doc on the US synchronized swim team’s road to the 2004 Olympics screened at fests extensively after its debut at Slamdance in 2008. It was released on DVD this past May.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
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Coming to NYC’s Cinema Village this Friday, February 3 and to various LA Laemmle theatres this Saturday, February 4: SPLINTERS
Adam Pesce’s doc on the development of surfing in Papua New Guinea made its world premiere at Tribeca last year. It went on to screen at IDFA and Hawaii, among others, and won two awards at the Newport Beach Film Festival, and now receives a theatrical release by SnagFilms.
I included the doc in my Tribeca roundup here.
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Coming to NYC’s Stranger Than Fiction this Tuesday, February 7: UNFINISHED SPACES
Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray premiered their doc on Cuba’s never-completed National Art Schools at the Los Angeles Film Festival last year. It has gone on to screen at numerous additional festivals, including Denver, Havana, and Palm Springs. Recently, they were awarded a special outreach award by Film Independent which will be presented during the Independent Spirit Awards later this month.
I previously wrote about the film during its run via DocuWeeks here.
Note: The directors will be present for a post-screening Q&A.
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Coming to theatres this Friday, February 3: WINDFALL
Laura Israel’s look at the contentious issue of wind power development premiered at Toronto in 2010, and has screened at a number of additional festivals since, including IDFA, Vancouver, Woodstock, Boston, and DOC NYC, where it took home an award. The film opens in NYC at the Quad and in Chicago at Facets Cinematheque. For future screenings, visit the site’s website.
I included the doc in my Toronto roundup here.
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Coming to DVD and VOD today, Tuesday, January 31: THE OTHER F WORD
Andrea Blaugrund Nevins exploration of rockers-turned-dads premiered at SXSW last year and went on to several additional festival engagements. It was released theatrically last Fall.
I wrote about the doc out of SXSW here.
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Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, January 31: RESURRECT DEAD: THE MYSTERY OF THE TOYNBEE TILES
Jon Foy’s documentary mystery debuted at Sundance last year, where Foy claimed the jury award for Best Director. After a successful festival run, the film enjoyed a limited theatrical release last Fall.
My pre-Sundance profile of the film may be found here.
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Winter camp is over, and I’m back from Park City UT after a week and a half of helping to expose audiences to a new crop of exciting films at Sundance. Acquisitions deals are still being reported, so between theatrical and VOD releases, broadcast, and other festival exposure, I hope that most if not all of this year’s lineup will be available to be seen by what (not) to doc readers over the next year.
The 2012 Sundance awards ceremony took place on Saturday night, revealing jury and audience winners for the US and World Cinema Documentary and Dramatic Competitions, as well as an audience award for the NEXT section. Earlier in the week, additional ceremonies revealed the Shorts winners and the Mahindra, NHK, Sloan, and other special prize recipients. The list of awards recipients announced Saturday are: Continue reading
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I’m interrupting what (not) to doc‘s Sundance hiatus since the Oscar nominations were announced this morning. While my congratulations go to all the nominees, this blog is, as always, focused on feature documentaries. I’m especially happy to see two Sundance alums receive the Academy’s nod.
I’ve previously written about four of the nominees and am linking to those posts below. Unfortunately, I haven’t had a chance to see the fifth, UNDEFEATED, but will do so as soon as I can, post-Sundance.
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With the 2012 Sundance Film Festival opening tonight, I’ll be too busy in my role as Programming Associate for the festival to post regularly here. So, over the next eleven days, while I’m introducing film screenings and moderating Q&As, this blog will essentially be on hiatus, though I am planning on posting this coming Tuesday, January 24 when the nominees for Best Documentary Oscar are announced. Beyond that, normal, daily frequency won’t resume until after Sundance wraps on Sunday, January 29.
In the meantime, you can catch up on my film-by-film profiling of all 39 feature documentaries in this year’s line-up, beginning here, and get quicker and shorter updates and impressions from Park City by following me on Twitter.
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