Category Archives: Documentary

Coming to NYC’s IFC Center tomorrow, Friday, January 10 and to LA’s Landmark Nuart on Friday, January 24: IF YOU BUILD IT

Patrick Creadon’s inspiring look at the impact design can have on education premiered at Full Frame last year. It went on to screen at DOC NYC, AFI Docs, Newport Beach, Cucalorus, Austin, Heartland, Hot Springs, and the Hamptons, among others.

I included the film in my AFI Docs coverage here.

Coming to CNN Films tomorrow, Thursday, January 9: SOLE SURVIVOR

Ky Dickens’ exploration of the personal aftermath of aviation tragedies made its debut at Traverse City last Fall. It has screened at DOC NYC, Austin, Midwest Independent, and Napa Valley, among other events.

I previously wrote about the film for the DOC NYC program guide, saying:
Just seventeen at the time, George Lamson was the only survivor of the 1985 Galaxy Airlines crash that claimed the lives of the 73 other passengers on board, including his father. More than two decades later, he still wrestles with the experience, turning to the only people who can relate: the handful of other sole survivors of major commercial plane crashes. Speaking publicly for the first time since their accidents, four of them share their complex reactions to their miraculous survival in Dickens’ thoughtfully constructed, emotionally affecting meditation on life-changing loss, isolating survivor’s guilt, and the pressures of overdetermined expectations.

Coming to PBS’s Independent Lens this coming Monday, January 13: AT BERKELEY

Frederick Wiseman’s singular exploration of the Northern Californian public university made its premiere at Venice last year. Its fest circuit has included Toronto, New York, London, Chicago, and Stockholm, and it enjoyed a limited theatrical release this Winter.

I previously wrote about the doc out of Toronto here.