Coming to OVID this Friday, October 7:
BLUE ISLAND
Director:
Chan Tze Woon
World Premiere:
Rotterdam 2022
Select Festivals:
New Directors/New Films, Hot Docs, Taiwan Doc
About:
A docufiction exploring Hong Kong’s protest movement and ensuing crackdown in the context of its history of rebellion.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to AMC+ this Friday, October 7:
OUR AMERICAN FAMILY
Director:
Hallee Adelman, Sean King O’Grady
World Premiere:
Woodstock 2021
Select Festivals:
Philadelphia
About:
An honest, unfiltered look at a close-knit Philadelphia family dealing with generational substance abuse.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to The WORLD Channel’s America ReFramed tomorrow, Thursday, October 6:
LA MANPLESA: AN UPRISING REMEMBERED
Director:
Ellie Walton
Select Festivals:
AFI Latin American, San Diego Latino, Festival de Cine Latino Americano, Bethesda
About:
Testimony, song, poetry, and street theater explores the collective memory of the 1991 rebellion that took place in a Washington DC Latinx neighborhood to protest the police shooting of a young Salvadoran man.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID this Thursday, October 6:
SCHEME BIRDS
Director:
Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2019
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Hot Docs, Sydney, Biografilm, DMZ Docs, Zurich, Vancouver, Docs Against Gravity, Thessaloniki Doc, Taiwan Doc
About:
As her childhood turns into motherhood, teenage troublemaker Gemma comes of age in her fading Scottish steel town – but in a place where “you either get knocked up or locked up,” innocent games can easily turn into serious crime.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, October 4:
THE US AND THE HOLOCAUST
Director:
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein
World Premiere:
Telluride 2022 (episode 1)
About:
A three-part examination of America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century, when public indifference, bureaucratic red tape, and restrictive quota laws stood in the way of supporting those who sought to escape the Holocaust.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, October 4:
‘TIL KINGDOM COME
Director:
Maya Zinshtein
World Premiere:
Docaviv 2020
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, IDFA, Chicago, Denver, Double Exposure
About:
An investigation of unlikely political bedfellows between America and Israel.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, October 4:
THREE MINUTES — A LENGTHENING
Director:
Bianca Stigter
World Premiere:
Venice 2021
Select Festivals:
Sundance, Toronto, IDFA, DOC NYC, Philadelphia, Göteborg, Thessaloniki Doc, Provincetown, Sydney, Cleveland, Docs Against Gravity
About:
A home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland – the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust – is examined to unravel the stories hidden in the celluloid.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to PBS tomorrow, Tuesday, October 4:
HARRIET TUBMAN: VISIONS OF FREEDOM
Director:
Stanley Nelson
World Premiere:
PBS broadcast (October 2022)
About:
A portrait of the inspiring woman who repeatedly risked her own life and freedom to liberate others from slavery.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to PBS’s POV tonight, Monday, October 3:
THE LAST OUT
Director:
Sami Khan, Michael Gassert
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2020
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Hot Springs Doc, Virginia, Heartland, New Horizons
About:
Three talented Cuban athletes leave everything behind to pursue the ultimate dream of Major League Baseball, but face exploitation and unfulfilled promises.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 30:
I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE
Director:
Reid Davenport
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
True/False, San Francisco, Hot Docs, Sydney
About:
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into an unflinching meditation on freakdom, (in)visibility, and the pursuit of individual agency.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
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