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
Coming to OVID.tv today, Tuesday, May 3:
DECADE OF FIRE
Directors:
Vivian Vazquez, Gretchen Hildebran
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2018
Select Festivals:
Full Frame, Cleveland, Chicago Latino, Harlem, Maryland
About:
A Bronx native revisits the truth behind the boroughs rash of arson in the 1970s.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, April 3:
SINCE I BEEN DOWN
Director:
Gilda Sheppard
World Premiere:
Cleveland 2020
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Big Sky, Freep, Sebastopol Doc, Portland, Thin Line, Montreal Black
About:
Despite serving life without parole, a man works to improve others’ lives.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to PBS’s American Experience tonight, Tuesday, February 3:
FLOOD IN THE DESERT
Director:
Rob Rapley
World Premiere:
American Experience broadcast (May 2022)
About:
The story of the 1928 St Francis Dam disaster, which cost human lives, property damage, and jeopardized plans to transform the West.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID.tv tomorrow, Tuesday, May 3:
NAILA AND THE UPRISING
Director:
Julia Bacha
Premiere:
DOC NYC 2017
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Dubai, Human Rights Watch, Movies That Matter, Cleveland, It’s All True, Fajr, Seattle, Durban, SF Jewish, Global Peace, St Louis
About:
The untold story of the women behind the First Intifada.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to NYC’s Pure Nonfiction series tomorrow, Tuesday, May 3:
BOYCOTT
Director:
Julia Bacha
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
Select Festivals:
SXSW, Hot Docs, Big Sky Doc, Human Rights Watch, DocLands, Atlanta, Milwaukee
About:
A look at the recent explosion of laws designed to penalize Americans who push boycotts against Israel.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations
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