Coming to HBO Max this Sunday, September 4:
PRIMERA
Director:
Vee Bravo
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, OneWorld, SANFIC, Valparaiso
About:
An exploration of how a rising resistance movement—led by student protesters, activists, street artists, and community leaders—fought back against the Chilean government’s oppressive policies and militaristic implementation of force.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Showtime on Demand today, Friday, September 2 and to Showtime this Sunday, September 4:
MCENROE
Director:
Barney Douglas
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
About:
Legendary “bad boy of tennis” John McEnroe finally tells his side of his storied career and famously hot-tempered performances on the court.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD tomorrow, Friday, September 2:
KAEPERNICK & AMERICA
Director:
Tommy Walker, Ross Hockrow
World Premiere:
Seattle 2022
Select Festivals:
Tribeca, Traverse City, Montreal Black
About:
An exploration of the political hysteria around the enigmatic quarterback’s fateful decision to protest, putting him at the center of an ever-exploding culture war.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, September 2:
LOVING HIGHSMITH
Director:
Eva Vitija
World Premiere:
Solothurner 2022
Select Festivals:
Locarno, Docaviv, Biografilm, Outfest, Provincetown, Sydney
About:
Her thrilling best-sellers were adapted into hit films, but in her previously unpublished private journals, Patricia Highsmith is revealed as a woman who had to keep her love for women out of sight and away from her family.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to Hulu tomorrow, Thursday, September 1:
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.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres and VOD this Friday, September 2:
BLIND AMBITION
Director:
Robert Coe, Warwick Ross
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
Select Festivals:
Melbourne, Thessaloniki Doc, Reykjavik, Seattle
About:
Four Zimbabwean men form their country’s first Wine Tasting Olympics team.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres this Friday, September 2:
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 NYC’s Anthology Film Archives this Thursday, September 1:
GHOST ARTIST
Director:
Steven Palmer, Edward Riche
Select Festivals:
FIN Atlantic, Windsor
About:
When a revolutionary film about medicine and the body is rediscovered after 50 years, it leads to its uncredited maker, Robert Cordier, still working in Paris at 82.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, August 30:
BULLETPROOF
Director:
Todd Chandler
World Premiere:
SXSW 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, IDFA, Dokufest, Camden, Philadelphia, DOK Leipzig, Jihlava, Doclisboa, Maryland, Tempo Doc, Melbourne, DMZ Docs
About:
A provocative exploration of fear and American violence that interrogates what it means to be safe in school in the United States.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to PBS’s POV tonight, Monday, August 29 and to DVD via Criterion Collection tomorrow, Tuesday, August 30:
FAYA DAYI
Director:
Jessica Beshir
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, BlackStar, True/False, Full Frame, Visions du Reel, Seattle, New Directors/New Films, Rotterdam, Melbourne
Notable Recognition:
The doc was shortlisted for the Academy Awards.
About:
A poetic, sensorial journey into the highlands of Harar in eastern Ethiopia, the birthplace of khat.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
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