Coming to OVID today, Monday, September 12:
KATE BORNSTEIN IS A QUEER & PLEASANT DANGER
Director:
Sam Feder
Select Festivals:
Outfest, Athena, Northside, Translations, TranScreens, Hot Springs Doc
About:
A portrait of the pioneering gender outlaw, visionary trans author and performer Kate Bornstein.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID today, Monday, September 12:
BOY I AM
Director:
Sam Feder, Julie Hollar
World Premiere:
NewFest 2006
Select Festivals:
Outfest, Frameline, LGBT fests in Tucson, Seattle, Budapest
About:
An exploration of provocative issues rarely touched upon in films portraying trans male subjects.
The film screened at NewFest, for which our program notes read:
It is only in recent years that transgender people and their issues have gained significant visibility within the larger LGBTQ community. But visibility has not translated into instant acceptance or understanding from everyone. For some within the lesbian community, the act of FTM transitioning is viewed at best as a naive social trend, or, at worst, an anti-feminist rejection of butchness and female power in favor of male privilege. Sam Feder and Julie Hollar’s timely and balanced documentary uses the engaging stories of three NYC-based FTMs, as well as interviews with a number of activists and scholars, to explore this controversy and get to its historical and cultural roots.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to OVID today, Monday, September 12:
THE TRANSFORMATION
Director:
Carlos Aparicio, Susana Aikin
Select Festivals:
Frameline
About:
In this follow up to THE SALT MINES, Sara, in the wake of an HIV+ diagnosis, accepts help from a group of born again Christians who, in exchange, demand her complete transformation: from female to her born gender of male, and from queer to straight.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID today, Monday, September 12:
THE SALT MINES
Director:
Carlos Aparicio, Susana Aikin
Select Festivals:
Rotterdam, Frameline
About:
A look at the lives of Sara, Gigi, and Giovanna, three Latinx transwomen supporting their drug addiction through sex work and living inside broken garbage trucks.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to PBS’s Independent Lens tonight, Monday, September 12:
HAZING
Director:
Byron Hurt
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
About:
A deeply personal exploration of the function, politics, and consequences of pledging rituals.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Amazon Prime Video today, Friday, September 9:
FLIGHT/RISK
Director:
Karim Amer, Omar Mullick
World Premiere:
Amazon Prime Video (September 2022)
About:
Families, their legal teams, whistleblowers, and Pulitzer-winning Seattle Times journalist Dominic Gates find themselves in the midst of a global tragedy when two Boeing 737 Max planes crashed only five months apart in 2018 and 2019.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 9:
THE STORY OF FILM: A NEW GENERATION
Director:
Mark Cousins
World Premiere:
Cannes 2021
Select Festivals:
BFI London, Chicago, Lumiere, Palm Springs, Taipei Golden Horse, Stockholm, Hong Kong, Biografilm
About:
An examination of the most powerful movie images of the last decade, including the pandemic, to create an epic and hopeful tale of cinematic innovation from around the globe.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, September 9:
THE BENGALI
Director:
Kavery Kaul
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, New Orleans, Rhode Island
About:
Fatima, a New Orleans dwelling descendant of African Americans and Indian immigrants, ventures to Kolkata, India, in search of her long-lost family.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to Netflix today, Thursday, September 8:
THE ANTHRAX ATTACKS
Director:
Dan Krauss
World Premiere:
Netflix (September 2022)
About:
Days after 9/11, letters containing fatal anthrax spores spark panic and tragedy in the US, and an FBI investigation.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to VOD this week:
WE ARE AS GODS
Director:
Jason Sussberg, David Alvarado
World Premiere:
SXSW 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, SXSW 2021, San Francisco, Hot Docs, Poland’s American Festival
About:
Stewart Brand, legendary pioneer of LSD, cyberspace, futurism, and modern environmentalism, now urges people to use our god-like powers to fight extinction by reviving lost species.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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