Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, September 27: EAT THAT QUESTION: FRANK ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS
Thorsten Schütte’s profile of the outspoken, media-savvy musician premiered at Sundance earlier this year. It went on to screen at Berlin, Montclair, New Zealand, Traverse City, Sarajevo, and Asbury Park.
My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.
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Coming to PBS’s America ReFramed tonight, Tuesday, September 27: IN THE GAME
Maria Finitzo’s look at a Latina high school soccer team premiered at Madrid last year. Screenings followed at Ashland, Documentary Edge, SXSWedu, Minneapolis-St Paul, Hollywood, St Louis, Oaxaca Sports, and the Chicago and Seattle Latino fests.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
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Coming to VOD Today, Monday, September 26: SERENA
Ryan White’s profile of the tennis icon had its premiere at Sheffield earlier this year. It went on to screen at Nantucket, was broadcast on EPIX, and now comes to Hulu and Amazon.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
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Coming to VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, September 27: BREAKING A MONSTER
Luke Meyer’s look at the grooming of a new music band debuted at SXSW last year. The doc went on to screen at Hot Docs, Sheffield, BAMcinemaFest, Sydney, Traverse City, Melbourne, Camden, Mill Valley, CPH:DOX, RIDM, Big Sky Doc, IndieLisboa, and Durban. It now comes to VOD via iTunes.
I previously wrote about the film here.
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Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, September 27: CITY OF GOLD
Laura Gabbert’s look at Jonathan Gold’s love of culinary Los Angeles premiered at Sundance last year. Its fest circuit also included DOC NYC, SXSW, Melbourne, Napa Valley, Vancouver, Traverse City, deadCENTER, Provincetown, Newport Beach, AFI Docs, New Zealand, and Montclair, among others.
My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.
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Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, September 27: HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO
Alexandra Shiva’s look at a rite of passage experienced by youth on the autism spectrum debuted at Sundance last year. Screenings followed at Nantucket, AFI Docs, Melbourne, Margaret Mead, Nashville, deadCENTER, and Full Frame, among other events.
My pre-Sundance doc profile may be found here.
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Coming to PBS’s Doc World on the World Channel this Sunday, September 25: TOCANDO LA LUZ
Jennifer Redfearn’s portrait of three blind Cuban women debuted at Full Frame last year. It went on to screen at DOC NYC, Galway, Miami, and Bath, among other events.
I previously wrote about the film for DOC NYC, saying:
Havana, Cuba. An up-and-coming singer searches for confidence, a young woman in love longs for motherhood, and a veteran of the Revolution comes to terms with the death of her husband. Three women, united by blindness and a desire for independence, guide us through Cuba’s current economic and social landscape while pursuing their dreams and breaking through personal and societal limitations.
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Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 23: SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY
Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz’s look at the battle to save seed diversity debuted at Washington DC’s Environmental Film Festival. Screenings followed at Nashville, Rhode Island, Princeton Environmental, Sheffield, Florida, DOXA, and Woods Hole, among other events.
Recognizing the rapid disappearance of agricultural biodiversity over the past century, seed keepers are on a mission to protect what little we have left. Siegel and Betz survey the range of stakeholders – from independent farmers and community seed bank organizers to indigenous practitioners and food scientists – as they face off against biotech companies for the future of the world’s food sources. While covering similar territory as other recent films about seeds and biodiversity, and spending a bit too much screen time on repetitious proclamations on the sacredness of seeds, the film succeeds in conveying an urgency around the issue.
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Coming to theatres and to Netflix today, Friday, September 23: AUDRIE & DAISY
Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk’s examination of the impact of online bullying on teenage sexual assault victims premiered at Sundance this year. Screenings followed at San Francisco, Hot Docs, Traverse City, Melbourne, and Montclair, among others. In addition to its theatrical and Netflix release, free community and university screenings have been set up across the country.
My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.
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Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, September 23: THE JAZZ LOFT ACCORDING TO W EUGENE SMITH
Sara Fishko’s look at legendary jazz history debuted at the New Orleans Film Festival last year. Its fest circuit also included DOC NYC, Rotterdam, Full Frame, Cleveland, Florida, BAFICI, and the Copenhagen Jazz Film Festival, among other events.
I previously wrote about the film for DOC NYC’s program, saying:
Between 1957 and 1965, former LIFE Magazine photojournalist W Eugene Smith obsessively photographed and taped the goings-on at the dilapidated Sixth Avenue loft he called home. As revealed in this astonishing WNYC-produced time capsule, what he captured is a treasure trove of NYC jazz of that period, including a three-week rehearsal by the legendary Thelonious Monk and jazz and classical music lessons given by the Juilliard-trained Hall Overton.
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