Coming to OVID.tv tomorrow, Friday, December 3:
KOSHIEN: JAPAN’S FIELD OF DREAMS
Director:
Ema Ryan Yamazaki
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2019
Select Festivals:
DMZ Docs
About:
An inside look at Japan’s popular national high school baseball championship.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, December 3:
TIGRE GENTE
Director:
Elizabeth Unger
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
About:
A Bolivian park ranger and a young Chinese journalist risk their lives to go undercover and investigate a new, deadly jaguar trade that’s sweeping South America.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to HBO & HBO Max tomorrow, Thursday, December 2:
LISTENING TO KENNY G
Director:
Penny Lane
World Premiere:
Toronto 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, IDFA, Camden, Hamptons, Philadelphia, Montclair
About:
A witty and provocative profile of Grammy-winning saxophonist Kenny G that also asks a bigger question: what makes music good or bad?
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres & VOD this Friday, December 3:
CITIZEN ASHE
Director:
Sam Pollard, Rex Miller
World Premiere:
Telluride 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Camden, Hot Springs Doc, BFI London, AFI Fest, Chicago, Virginia
About:
A portrait of the trailblazing tennis player, the first and only Black man to win Wimbledon and the US and Australian Opens, and the first Black player on the US Davis Cup team.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD this Friday, December 3:
LOVE IT WAS NOT
Director:
Maya Sarfaty
World Premiere:
Docaviv 2020
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Hot Docs
About:
The unbelievable and tragic love story of Helena, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres this Friday, December 3:
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 theatres this Thursday, December 2:
SO LATE SO SOON
Director:
Daniel Hymanson
World Premiere:
True/False 2020
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Cleveland, Big Sky Doc, Indie Memphis
About:
An exploration of the artistic process and life of a long-married couple.
The film screened at DOC NYC, for which our program notes read:
An intimate portrait of the energetic and beautifully eccentric Chicago-based artists Jackie Seiden and Don Seiden, married for five decades. Director Daniel Hymanson follows the couple over time while they face their impending fragility with raw honesty and eerie elegance. Graciously shot, the documentary offers a privileged window into their art making, domesticity, frictions, and the ultimate project of aging and caring for each other.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Wednesday, December 1:
ADRIENNE
Director:
Andy Ostroy
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
About:
The death of acclaimed actress-filmmaker-screenwriter Adrienne Shelly sends her husband on a search for answers.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, November 30:
KEYBOARD FANTASIES: THE BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND STORY
Director:
Posy Dixon
World Premiere:
Doc’n Roll 2019
Select Festivals:
New Orleans, Frameline, Indielisboa, Melbourne Doc, Thessaloniki Doc, BFI Flare, Calgary Underground
About:
After three decades of releasing album after album in relative obscurity, a Black transgender trailblazing musician finally finds success at the age of 74.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Netflix today, Monday, November 29:
14 PEAKS: NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE
Director:
Torquil Jones
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
About:
In 2019, Nepalese mountain climber Nirmal “Nims” Purja set out to do the unthinkable by climbing the world’s fourteen highest summits in less than seven months.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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