Coming to DVD next Tuesday, January 17: LIFE 2.0
Jason Spingarn-Koff’s documentary on Second Life premiered at Sundance in 2010, and went on to screen at SXSW, Boston, San Francisco, CPH:DOX, and New Orleans, among others. Oprah’s OWN Documentary Club hosted the broadcast premiere last Summer after a limited theatrical run in the Spring.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
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Canada brings us the next film in the World Cinema Documentary Competition: INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE, Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky’s look at the creative process and personal sacrifice behind independent video game design.
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Beginning the second half of this spotlight on the World Cinema Documentary Competition: THE IMPOSTER, British director Bart Layton’s riveting and almost unbelievable story of identity, opportunity, and exploitation.
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This film-by-film look at the World Cinema Documentary competition reaches the halfway point with: GYPSY DAVY, from Israel/USA/Spain, Rachel Leah Jones’ search for understanding her absent father.
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Continuing the rundown of this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition: CHINA HEAVYWEIGHT, from Canada/China, Yung Chang’s look at contemporary China through the lens of boxing.
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Hitting the halfway point of this series of profiles of this year’s documentary lineup, we reach the third of four IDFA titles in the World Cinema Documentary Competition: BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!*, Swedish director Fredrik Gertten’s story of censorship, media spin, and corporate interests.
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My spotlight on this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition continues with the second of four films that also screened at IDFA in November: THE AMBASSADOR, from Denmark’s master provocateur Mads Brügger, an exposé of corruption and international diplomacy.
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Coming to theatres this Friday, January 13: SING YOUR SONG
Susanne Rostock’s Harry Belafonte biography made its premiere at Sundance last year before screening at numerous additional high-profile fests, including Berlin, SXSW, and Tribeca. It made its broadcast premiere on HBO this past Fall.
I wrote about the film before Sundance
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Next up in the World Cinema Documentary Competition is the first of four films that also screened recently at IDFA: 5 BROKEN CAMERAS, from Palestine/Israel/France, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi’s moving and very personal document of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict played out in one village.
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Moving on to this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition: 1/2 REVOLUTION, from Denmark/Egypt, Omar Shargawi and Karim El Hakim’s up-close, immersive view of the first part of last year’s Tahrir Square uprising.
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