Coming to OVID this Friday, November 4:
LAPÜ
Director:
Juan Pablo Polanco, César Alejandro Jaimes
World Premiere:
Sundance 2019
Select Festivals:
Berlin, CPH:DOX, Thessaloniki Doc, Cartagena, Documenta, San Francisco, Antenna Doc, DMZ Doc
About:
An indigenous Colombian woman goes on a vital spiritual journey.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to The WORLD Channel’s America ReFramed tomorrow, Thursday, November 3:
KID CANDIDATE
Director:
Jasmine Stodel
World Premiere:
SXSW 2021
Select Festivals:
San Francisco DocFest
About:
The story of Hayden Pedigo, a 24-year old experimental musician and his unlikely run for Amarillo city council after his Harmony Korine inspired spoof campaign video goes viral.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Netflix tomorrow, Wednesday, November 2:
KILLER SALLY
Director:
Nanette Burstein
World Premiere:
Netflix (November 2022)
About:
Interviews with friends, family, and Sally McNeil herself chart a bodybuilding couple’s rocky marriage — and its shocking end in a Valentine’s Day murder.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID today, Tuesday, November 1:
MORONI FOR PRESIDENT
Directors:
Saila Huusko, Jasper Rischen
World Premiere:
Big Sky Doc 2018
Select Festivals:
Los Angeles, Frameline, Seattle Queer, DocuWest
About:
A gay ex-Mormon campaigns to lead the Navajo Nation.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, November 1:
LOVING HIGHSMITH
Director:
Eva Vitija
World Premiere:
Solothurner 2022
Select Festivals:
Locarno, Docaviv, Biografilm, Outfest, Provincetown, Sydney
About:
Her thrilling best-sellers were adapted into hit films, but in her previously unpublished private journals, Patricia Highsmith is revealed as a woman who had to keep her love for women out of sight and away from her family.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to Hulu tomorrow, Tuesday, November 1:
GOD FORBID: THE SEX SCANDAL THAT BROUGHT DOWN A DYNASTY
Director:
Billy Corben
World Premiere:
Hulu (November 2022)
About:
A Miami pool boy finds himself trapped in a seven-year affair with a charming older woman and her husband, the Evangelical Trump stalwart Jerry Falwell Jr, as he becomes increasingly entangled with the Falwell’s seemingly perfect lives.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, November 1:
AFTER THE MURDER OF ALBERT LIMA
Director:
Aengus James
World Premiere:
Woodstock 2019
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Phoenix
About:
A man hires bounty hunters to bring his father’s killer to justice.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, November 1:
THE INVADERS
Director:
Prichard Smith
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2015
About:
Filling in a lost chapter of civil rights history, a look at the generation of radicals that emerged in Memphis in 1967.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, October 28:
IS THAT BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU?!?
Director:
Elvis Mitchell
World Premiere:
New York Film Festival 2022
Select Festivals:
Montclair, AFI Fest, Indie Memphis
About:
A definitive narrative of the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Apple TV+ today, Friday, October 28:
LOUIS ARMSTRONG’S BLACK & BLUES
Director:
Sacha Jenkins
World Premiere:
Toronto 2022
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Aspen, Heartland, Rome, São Paulo
About:
Drawing on Louis Armstrong’s audio diaries, a revisitation of the music and reappraisal of the politics of the legendary jazz trumpeter and singer.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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