Category Archives: Film

Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, June 17:
STAY PRAYED UP

Director:
DL Anderson, Matt Durning

World Premiere:
Telluride 2021

Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Virginia

About:
The gospel trio The Branchettes prepare to record their live album in the modest congregation of their youth, in this passionate yet humble portrait of an artist. 

Coming to theatres and virtual cinemas this Friday, June 17:
THE BOOK KEEPERS

Director:
Phil Wall

World Premiere:
Austin 2020

Select Festivals:
Napa Valley, Savannah, Chagrin Doc, DocUtah

About:
A father and son crisscross the country to fulfill a dying wish, ensure a legacy, and find solace after tragic personal loss.

Coming to ESPN and ESPN+’s 30 for 30 series today, Wednesday, June 15:
DREAM ON

Director:
Kristen Lappas

World Premiere:
ESPN (June 2022)

About:
A look back at the 1996 USA Women’s Basketball Dream Team and the 14-month odyssey that would forever change the landscape of women’s athletics.

Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, June 14:
PUTIN’S WITNESSES

Director:
Vitaly Mansky

World Premiere:
Karlovy Vary 2018

Select Festivals:
Toronto, IDFA, CPH:DOX, Camden, BFI London, Vancouver, Zurich, Gent, Leeds, Stockholm, Vilnius, Porto/Post/Doc, Docs Against Gravity, Seattle

About:
An examination of the early life of Vladimir Putin and the political machine that brought him to power.

Coming to PBS’s American Masters tomorrow, Tuesday, June 14:
BRIAN WILSON: LONG PROMISED ROAD

Director:
Brent Wilson

World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021

About:
The Beach Boys’ lead songwriter takes a drive around Los Angeles with Rolling Stone editor and longtime friend Jason Fine in this nonlinear cinematic memoir, as vivid and multifaceted as his music.

Coming to VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, June 14:
END OF THE LINE

Director:
Emmett Adler

World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021

About:
A heartfelt and scrupulous look into NYC’s massive, troubled subway system, this film poses the question: what happens when that life line of the city goes flat?

Coming to theatres today, Friday, June 10:
THE STORY WON’T DIE

Director:
David Henry Gerson

World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2021

Select Festivals:
AFI Docs, Watch Docs, Poland’s American Fest, Woods Hole

About:
A portrait of a young generation of Syrian artists who use their work to process their ongoing trauma and to express themselves as they never could under the repressive regime that forced them into exile.

New to VOD this week:
THE SNOW CALLS

Director:
Marjan Khosravi

World Premiere:
IDFA 2020

Select Festivals:
DMZ Docs, Big Sky Doc

About:
After bearing three daughters, Mina has one more chance: her next child has to be a boy, or her husband will marry another woman.

Coming to Ovid.tv today, Friday, June 10:
THE IMAGE YOU MISSED

Director:
Donal Foreman

World Premiere:
Rotterdam 2018

Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, RIDM, Cinema du Reel, Dokufest, Edinburgh, Dublin, Galway, Guth Gafa, BAFICI, Art of the Real, Indielisboa, Guanajuato, Melbourne, Vancouver, DocsMX

About:
An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late American documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig’s decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland.