Coming to theatres today, Friday, October 14:
SCRAP
Director:
Stacey Tenenbaum
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2022
About:
An exploration of places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world’s scrap.
Category Archives: Releases
In Theatres: SCRAP
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In Theatres: THE PICTURE TAKER
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, October 14:
THE PICTURE TAKER
Director:
Phil Bertelsen
World Premiere:
Woodstock 2022
Select Festivals:
Montclair
About:
The story of photographer Ernest Withers, who chronicled the African American experience during Jim Crow and the birth of the Civil Rights Movement – and was also secretly an FBI informant.
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In Theatres: SEPA: NUESTRO SEÑOR DE LOS MILAGROS
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, October 14:
SEPA: NUESTRO SEÑOR DE LOS MILAGROS
Director:
Walter Saxer
World Premiere:
Internationale Hofer Filmtage 1986
Select Festivals:
Solothurn
About:
A profile of an experimental open-air penal colony in the Peruvian Amazon.
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In Theatres: ETERNAL SPRING
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, October 14:
ETERNAL SPRING
Director:
Jason Loftus
World Premiere:
Thessaloniki Doc 2022
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, Human Rights Watch, San Francisco Doc, Krakow, deadCENTER, Melbourne, Dokufest, Ambulante, Zurich, Reyjkavik
About:
After meeting a survivor of an activist group that boldly hacked Chinese state television to protest human rights violations, an exiled illustrator recreates the events through his art.
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On VOD: BATTLEGROUND
Coming to VOD this Friday, October 14:
BATTLEGROUND
Director:
Cynthia Lowen
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
About:
Heading distinctly different anti-choice organizations, three women lead the charge in their single-minded quest to overturn Roe v Wade.
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Streaming: A RADICAL LIFE
Coming to Discovery+ tomorrow, Thursday, October 13:
A RADICAL LIFE
Director:
Ricki Stern
World Premiere:
Hamptons 2022
About:
An unfiltered look inside the mind of Tania Joya, the former First Lady of ISIS, who spent twelve years married to the highest ranking American in ISIS.
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Streaming: HIGH ON CRACK STREET: LOST LIVES IN LOWELL
Coming to OVID tomorrow, Thursday, October 13:
HIGH ON CRACK STREET: LOST LIVES IN LOWELL
Director:
Jon Alpert, Maryann DeLeo, Richard Farrell
Select Festivals:
IDFA, DOC NYC
About:
A harrowing chronicle of addiction in an economically depressed blue-collar Massachusetts town.
The film screened at DOC NYC for its 20th anniversary, for which our program notes read:
Jon Alpert and Maryann De Leo teamed with former drug addict Rich Farrell, a resident of Lowell, Massachusetts, for this harrowing chronicle of addiction in the economically depressed blue-collar town. Filmed over a year and a half, Brenda, Dicky, and Boo-Boo are followed in and out of crackhouses, rehab, and jail, seeking an escape from the despair of their surroundings. Their lives later served as the inspiration for THE FIGHTER, for which Christian Bale, portraying Dicky, won an Oscar.
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Streaming: I LOVE YOU, YOU HATE ME
Coming to Peacock today, Wednesday, October 12:
I LOVE YOU, YOU HATE ME
Director:
Tommy Avallone
World Premiere:
Peacock (October 2022)
About:
A docuseries chronicling the backlash against Barney the Dinosaur in the 1990s.
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On VOD: AMERICAN RAPSTAR
Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, October 11:
AMERICAN RAPSTAR
Director:
Justin Staple
World Premiere:
CPH:DOX 2020
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, SXSW, Doc’n Roll
About:
An eye-opening exploration of the SoundCloud rap phenomenon, a scene of troubled, young, lo-fi rappers that has used social media to develop a rabid fan base.
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Streaming: CALIFORNIA DREAMS
Coming to OVID today, Tuesday, October 11:
CALIFORNIA DREAMS
Director:
Mike Ott
Premiere:
Berlin Critics Week 2017
Select Festivals:
SXSW, Docville, Sarasota, San Francisco, Champs Élysées
About:
Five people pursue unlikely aspirations of Hollywood fame in this hybrid.
I previously wrote about the film here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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