New to VOD this week:
THE SNOW CALLS
Director:
Marjan Khosravi
World Premiere:
IDFA 2020
Select Festivals:
DMZ Docs, Big Sky Doc
About:
After bearing three daughters, Mina has one more chance: her next child has to be a boy, or her husband will marry another woman.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Ovid.tv today, Friday, June 10:
THE IMAGE YOU MISSED
Director:
Donal Foreman
World Premiere:
Rotterdam 2018
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, RIDM, Cinema du Reel, Dokufest, Edinburgh, Dublin, Galway, Guth Gafa, BAFICI, Art of the Real, Indielisboa, Guanajuato, Melbourne, Vancouver, DocsMX
About:
An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late American documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig’s decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Discovery+ today, Thursday, June 9:
DR. DELIRIUM & THE EDGEWOOD EXPERIMENTS
Executive Producers:
Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Craig H Shepherd, Nick Brigden
World Premiere:
Discovery+ (June 2022)
About:
An investigation into classified human subject research conducted on thousands of soldiers at the Edgewood Arsenal facility in Maryland from 1955 to 1975 by the United States Army Chemical Corps, experiments meant to evaluate the impact of potent, mind-altering chemical warfare agents on military personnel as an alternative to traditional combat.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to VOD this week:
MISSION: JOY – FINDING HAPPINESS IN TROUBLED TIMES
Director:
Louie Psihoyos
Co-Director:
Peggy Callahan
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
Select Festivals:
Thessaloniki Doc, Docs Against Gravity, Cleveland, Boulder, Mill Valley, Palm Springs, Mountainfilm
About:
An exploration of the friendship between Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Ovid.tv tomorrow, Friday, June 10:
THE PATRIOT GAME
Director:
Arthur MacCaig
World Premiere:
Cannes 1979
Select Festivals:
Rotterdam, Cinema du Reel, Festival dei Popoli
About:
An essay film examining the conflict in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1978, covering the height of the Troubles.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Netflix today, Wednesday, June 8:
KEEP SWEET: PRAY AND OBEY
Director:
Rachel Dretzin
Co-Director:
Grace McNally
World Premiere:
Netflix (June 2022)
About:
A docuseries examining the rise and fall of Warren Jeffs in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to VOD this week:
BEING BEBE
Director:
Emily Branham
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
Select Festivals:
Provincetown, NewFest, Outfest, BFI Flare, Tallgrass, Sound Unseen, Image+Nation, Heartland
About:
In 2009, Bebe Zahara Benet was crowned the first winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, but the franchise hadn’t yet achieved notoriety, so without an infrastructure to support her next steps, Bebe is confronted with the fickleness of fame.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, June 7:
BALONEY
Director:
Joshua Guerci
World Premiere:
Frameline 2021
Select Festivals:
Outfest, LGBT fests in Tel Aviv, Palm Springs, Boston, Seattle,
About:
The titillating and charming story behind San Francisco’s first and only all-male gay revue.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Festival:
The 21st Tribeca Festival
Dates:
June 8-19
About:
Approximately 140 features and episodic content – about half of that nonfiction – screens in this NYC event.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Overviews, Recommendations
Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Wednesday, June 8:
THE JANES
Director:
Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
San Francisco, Cleveland, Athena, Minneapolis-St Paul
About:
The story of “Jane,” a group of women in Chicago who built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, and illegal abortions before Roe v Wade.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
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