Coming to theatres and VOD this Friday, May 6:
WUHAN WUHAN
Director:
Yung Chang
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2021
Select Festivals:
CAAMFest, DOXA, Los Angeles Asian Pacific, Sarasota, Milwaukee, Minnesota-St Paul, DocEdge, Sebastopol Doc
About:
A look at Wuhan, China, at the peak of the pandemic lockdown, revealing the emotions and resilience at the core of our shared humanity.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to The WORLD Channel’s America Reframed tomorrow, Thursday, May 5:
DAUGHTER OF A LOST BIRD
Director:
Brooke Pepion Swaney
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2021
Select Festivals:
Milwaukee, Atlanta, Seattle, ImagineNative, Big Sky Doc, Human Rights Watch, Cleveland, Heartland, Woodstock, Vancouver
About:
A woman, raised by an adopted white family since she was a baby, discovers her Native identity.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID.tv today, Tuesday, May 3:
DECADE OF FIRE
Directors:
Vivian Vazquez, Gretchen Hildebran
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2018
Select Festivals:
Full Frame, Cleveland, Chicago Latino, Harlem, Maryland
About:
A Bronx native revisits the truth behind the boroughs rash of arson in the 1970s.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, April 3:
SINCE I BEEN DOWN
Director:
Gilda Sheppard
World Premiere:
Cleveland 2020
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Big Sky, Freep, Sebastopol Doc, Portland, Thin Line, Montreal Black
About:
Despite serving life without parole, a man works to improve others’ lives.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to PBS’s American Experience tonight, Tuesday, February 3:
FLOOD IN THE DESERT
Director:
Rob Rapley
World Premiere:
American Experience broadcast (May 2022)
About:
The story of the 1928 St Francis Dam disaster, which cost human lives, property damage, and jeopardized plans to transform the West.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID.tv tomorrow, Tuesday, May 3:
NAILA AND THE UPRISING
Director:
Julia Bacha
Premiere:
DOC NYC 2017
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Dubai, Human Rights Watch, Movies That Matter, Cleveland, It’s All True, Fajr, Seattle, Durban, SF Jewish, Global Peace, St Louis
About:
The untold story of the women behind the First Intifada.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to PBS’s Independent Lens tonight, Monday, May 2:
TRY HARDER!
Director:
Debbie Lum
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
Nantucket, AFI Docs, Full Frame, CAAMFest, Milwaukee, Provincetown, Los Angeles Asian Pacific, Philadelphia, Virginia
About:
The graduating class of a competitive San Francisco High School is followed through its harrowing college application process.
I previously wrote about the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to the Smithsonian Channel tomorrow, Sunday, May 1:
THE COLOR OF CARE
Director:
Yance Ford
World Premiere:
Smithsonian Channel broadcast (May 2022)
About:
A chronicle of how people of color suffer from systemically substandard healthcare in the United States, an inequity whose tragic consequences were witnessed with COVID-19.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Film Movement Plus today, Friday, April 29:
MOLECULES
Director:
Andrea Segre
World Premiere:
Venice 2020
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, Visions du Reel, Docs Against Gravity, Vancouver
About:
In February 2020, locked down in Venice, his late father’s hometown, the grieving filmmaker—and the city—confront the fragilities of their foundations, finding extraordinary beauty in the powerful presence of absence.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID.tv today, Friday, April 29:
THE TROUBLES WE’VE SEEN
Director:
Marcel Ophüls
World Premiere:
Locarno 1994
Select Festivals:
New York, Berlin, Chicago
About:
An exploration of the ethical challenges of war reporting, shot primarily during the siege of Sarajevo in 1993, examining attitudes toward war in the Western media, and in the societies they inform.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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