Coming to The WORLD Channel’s America ReFramed tomorrow, Tuesday, June 22:
JACK & YAYA
Director:
Jennifer Bagley
World Premiere:
qFlix Philadelphia 2019
Select Festivals:
Inside Out, Seattle Translations, Hell’s Half Mile, BFI Flare
About:
A portrait of two transgender friends who have known each other since they were toddlers.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to PBS’s Independent Lens tonight, Monday, June 21:
TWO GODS
Director:
Zeshawn Ali
World Premiere:
Full Frame 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, BlackStar, Montclair, Hot Docs, Camden
About:
A Black Muslim casket maker mentors two boys.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, June 18:
THE SPARKS BROTHERS
Director:
Edgar Wright
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
SXSW, Hot Docs, IFF Boston, San Francisco Doc
About:
A tribute to the influential but overlooked band Sparks.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres today, Friday, June 18:
A CRIME ON THE BAYOU
Director:
Nancy Buirski
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2020
Select Festivals:
New Orleans, San Francisco Jewish, Big Sky Doc, Atlanta Jewish, Hamptons Docs
About:
An unjustly arrested Black man and his young Jewish attorney form a lifelong friendship.
The film screened as part of DOC NYC, for which our program notes read:
Filmmaker Nancy Buirski tells the story of a lasting bond formed between an unjustly arrested Black man, Gary Duncan, and Richard Sobol, his young Jewish attorney. In 1966, 19-year-old Duncan faces the white supremacist court system in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, for daring to touch a white boy’s arm. Standing united, the pair takes Duncan’s case all the way to the US Supreme Court to fight for the rights of all Americans to a fair trial.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, June 18:
LFG
Director:
Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
About:
An inside look at the US women’s national soccer league and their continuing fight for equal pay in an effort to create real change in women’s sports.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to virtual cinemas today, Friday, June 18:
THE AMERICAN SECTOR
Director:
Courtney Stephens, Pacho Velez
World Premiere:
Berlin 2020
Select Festivals:
Art of the Real, Docaviv, Camden, AFI Fest, RIDM, Maryland
About:
A road trip tracking several of the remnants of the Berlin Wall now held by American collectors and institutions.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to the Metrograph’s virtual cinema tomorrow, Friday, June 18:
THE FRENCH
Director:
William Klein
World Premiere:
Perspectives du Cinéma Français 1982
About:
An unprecedented all-access, behind-the-scenes look at the 1981 French Open.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, June 18:
RITA MORENO: JUST A GIRL WHO DECIDED TO GO FOR IT
Director:
Mariem Pérez Riera
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, Cleveland, Atlanta, Sarasota, Tribeca, Provincetown
About:
A profile of the pioneering, EGOT-winning star of stage and screen.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to National Geographic and Hulu tomorrow, Friday, June 18:
RISE AGAIN: TULSA AND THE RED SUMMER
Director:
Dawn Porter
World Premiere:
National Geographic/Hulu release (June 2021)
About:
A focus on the two-day Tulsa Massacre in 1921 that led to the murder of hundreds of Black people and left thousands homeless and displaced.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres and to virtual cinemas tomorrow, Friday, June 18:
TRUMAN & TENNESSEE: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION
Director:
Lisa Immordino Vreeland
World Premiere:
Telluride 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
Hamptons, Full Frame, NewFest, Seattle, Glasgow
About:
The work, lives, and personal journeys of two iconic American artists coalesce with creative combustion in this innovative dual-portrait.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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