Category Archives: Sundance

Coming to PBS’s POV this coming Monday, July 10:
LAST MEN IN ALEPPO

Director:
Feras Fayyad

Co-Director:
Steen Johannessen

Premiere:
Sundance 2017

Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Full Frame, Sarasota, Movies That Matter, Istanbul, Nashville

About:
A chronicle the lives of Aleppo’s White Helmets, the city’s volunteer civil defense team.

My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.

Coming to theatres this Friday, July 7:
CITY OF GHOSTS

Director:
Matt Heineman

Premiere:
Sundance 2017

Select Festivals:
Nantucket, Tribeca, CPH:DOX, San Francisco, Hot Docs, Jeonju, Sheffield, AFI Docs, Jerusalam, Seattle, Montclair, Traverse City

About:
A courageous group of citizen journalists risk their lives to expose the truth behind ISIS.

I profiled the doc before Sundance here.

Coming to theatres this Friday, June 30:
LOOK & SEE: A PORTRAIT OF WENDELL BERRY

Director:
Laura Dunn

Co-Director:
Jef Sewell

Premiere:
SXSW 2016 (earlier version titled THE SEER)

Select Festivals:
Sundance, Nantucket, Hot Docs, Montclair, Berlin, Nashville, RiverRun

About:
A profile of the outspoken author and environmentalist through his immediate surroundings.

I profiled the doc before Sundance here.

Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, June 27:
LAST MEN IN ALEPPO

Director:
Feras Fayyad

Co-Director:
Steen Johannessen

Premiere:
Sundance 2017

Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Full Frame, Sarasota, Movies That Matter, Istanbul, Nashville

About:
A chronicle the lives of Aleppo’s White Helmets, the city’s volunteer civil defense team.

My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.

Coming to DVD and VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, June 27:
LEGION OF BROTHERS

Director:
Greg Barker

Premiere:
Sundance 2017

Select Festivals:
Minneapolis-St Paul

About:
Green Berets relate their secret missions to overthrow the Taliban after 9/11.

My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.

Coming to theatres and to VOD via Netflix tomorrow, Friday, June 23:
NOBODY SPEAK: TRIALS OF THE FREE PRESS

Director:
Brian Knappenberger

Premiere:
Sundance 2017

Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, AFI Docs, SXSW, Sheffield, Human Rights Watch, San Francisco, Miami

About:
An investigation into the erosion of the freedom of the press in the face of financial inequity.

I profiled the doc before Sundance here.

Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, June 13:
THE AMERICAN EPIC SESSIONS

Director:
Bernard MacMahon

Premiere:
BFI London 2015

Select Festivals:
IDFA, Hawaii, Göteborg, IDFA

About:
A celebration of early music recording.

I profiled the program before Sundance here.