Category Archives: Sundance

Coming to PBS’s DARK MONEYPOV tonight, Monday, October 1:
DARK MONEY

Director:
Kimberly Reed

Premiere:
Sundance 2018

Select Festivals:
Nantucket, Big Sky, Full Frame, AFI Docs, Boulder, Martha’s Vineyard, Florida, Ashland, Cleveland, Freep, Montclair, Dallas, Nashville, Telluride Mountainfilm

About:
Montana serves as a case study for the dangerous impact of Citizens United on politics.

I profiled the doc before Sundance here.

Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 28:
MATANGI/MAYA/MIA

Director:
Stephen Loveridge

Premiere:
Sundance 2018

Select Festivals:
Berlin, True/False, CPH:DOX, New Directors/New Films, Docs Against Gravity, Biografilm, Sydney, New Zealand, Melbourne, Helsinki, Zurich, Seattle

About:
An insider perspective on the life and career of popular musician MIA.

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

Coming to theatres and to VOD tomorrow, Friday, September 28:
BAD REPUTATION

Director:
Kevin Kerslake

Premiere:
Sundance 2018

Select Festivals:
BFI London, Cleveland, San Francisco, Montclair, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Outfest

About:
A portrait of the queen of rock ‘n’ roll, Joan Jett.

I profiled the doc before Sundance here.

Coming to theatres this Friday, September 28:
306 HOLLYWOOD

Directors:
Elan Bogarín and Jonathan Bogarín

Premiere:
Sundance 2018

Select Festivals:
Nantucket, Hot Docs, Full Frame, Cleveland, Sarasota, Montclair, Aspen Ideas, Atlanta, Berkshire, Woods Hole, San Francisco Jewish

About:
A magical realist archaeological exploration of the filmmakers’ late grandmother’s home and possessions.

I profiled the doc before Sundance here.

photo courtesy of Everett Collection[/caption]Coming to HBO tonight, Monday, September 24 and to theatres this Friday, September 28:
JANE FONDA IN FIVE ACTS

Director:
Susan Lacy

Premiere:
Sundance 2018

Select Festivals:
Nantucket, Cannes, Traverse City, Biografilm, Ghent

About:
A candid portrait exploring the many facets of Jane Fonda.

I profiled the doc before Sundance here.

New to VOD this week:
THE KING

Director:
Eugene Jarecki

Premiere:
Cannes 2017

Select Festivals:
Sundance, Nantucket, Nashville, Seattle, Martha’s Vineyard, London, Sarasota, Chicago DOC 10, Deauville, Zurich, Haifa

About:
A musical road trip across the US in Elvis Presley’s 1963 Rolls Royce explores the rise and fall of the American empire.

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

Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, September 18:
DID YOU WONDER WHO FIRED THE GUN?

Director:
Travis Wilkerson

Premiere:
Sundance 2017

Select Festivals:
True/False, Locarno, Camden, New York, Denver, Rotterdam

About:
The filmmaker interrogates an obscured incident from his family’s past involving the murder of an African American man.

I profiled the film before Sundance here.

Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 14:
SCIENCE FAIR

Directors:
Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster

Premiere:
Sundance 2018

Select Festivals:
SXSW, Edinburgh, Cleveland, New Zealand, Vancouver, Sun Valley, Portland, Provincetown

About:
A profile of participants in the world’s premier science fair.

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

Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, September 14:
HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING

Director:
RaMell Ross

Premiere:
Sundance 2018

Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, True/False, New Directors/New Films, Full Frame, Sheffield, Ambulante, Champs-Élysées, Maryland, DOK.fest Munich, Martha’s Vineyard African American, San Francisco, Montclair

About:
An impressionistic portrait of two young African American men in the American South.

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