Coming to OVID this Friday, June 24:
A BIT OF SCARLET
Director:
Andrea Weiss
World Premiere:
Edinburgh 1996
Select Festivals:
Berlin, NewFest, Outfest, Melbourne, Brisbane
About:
An exploration of the pervasive presence of queers on the British screen through a series of telling clips from diverse periods of UK film history.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, June 17 and to Netflix this Sunday, June 19:
CIVIL
Director:
Nadia Hallgren
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
Select Festivals:
American Black
About:
An intimate yet expansive profile of Ben Crump, the lawyer dubbed “Black America’s attorney general.”
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to NYC’s Rooftop Films tomorrow, Saturday, June 18:
BEBA
Director:
Rebeca Huntt
World Premiere:
Toronto 2021
Select Festivals:
Berlin, CPH:DOX, Docaviv, Miami, Tribeca, Provincetown, Minneapolis-St Paul
About:
A raw, poetic self-portrait in which a young, NYC-born Afro-Latina filmmaker stares down historical, societal, and generational trauma.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations
Coming to NYC’s Rooftop Films tomorrow, Wednesday, June 15:
FIRE OF LOVE
Director:
Sara Dosa
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, True/False, SXSW, New Directors/New Films, Docaviv, Visions du Reel, Docville, Sydney, Seattle, San Francisco, Cleveland, Ashland, RiverRun, Sun Valley, Provincetown
About:
This story of the doomed love triangle between intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft and the volcanoes they captured in their explosive archival footage.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Sundance
Festival:
The 21st Tribeca Festival
Dates:
June 8-19
About:
Approximately 140 features and episodic content – about half of that nonfiction – screens in this NYC event.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Overviews, Recommendations
Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Wednesday, June 8:
THE JANES
Director:
Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
San Francisco, Cleveland, Athena, Minneapolis-St Paul
About:
The story of “Jane,” a group of women in Chicago who built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, and illegal abortions before Roe v Wade.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD and VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, June 7:
SEARCHING FOR MR RUGOFF
Director:
Ira Deutchman
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2019
Select Festivals:
Palm Springs, Cleveland, Wisconsin, Galway, Mill Valley
About:
A look back at the outsized personality behind legendary art house distributor Cinema 5.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, June 7:
MAU
Director:
Benji Bergmann, Jono Bergmann
World Premiere:
SXSW 2021
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, Tallinn Black Nights
About:
The unlikely story of design visionary Bruce Mau and his ever-optimistic push for massive change.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres and VOD today, Friday, June 3:
WE ARE THE THOUSAND
Director:
Anita Rivaroli
World Premiere:
SXSW 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Hot Docs, Melbourne, Docs Against Gravity, Thessaloniki Doc
About:
An uplifting, inspiring, and emotional music documentary about a seemingly impossible plan to record a song by the Foo Fighters with a thousand musicians.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to PBS’s American Masters tomorrow, Friday, June 3:
JOE PAPP IN FIVE ACTS
Director:
Tracie Holder, Karen Thorsen
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2012
Select Festivals:
AFI Docs, Rio, Brisbane, Ashland, San Francisco Jewish, Havana
About:
A portrait of the founder of The Public Theater, who believed in the democratization of theatre for all, spearheading free performances of Shakespeare in the Park and producing groundbreaking plays in his legendary NYC venue.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
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