New to DVD this week:
KAREN DALTON: IN MY OWN TIME
Director:
Robert Yapkowitz, Richard Peete
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2020
Select Festivals:
Docaviv, Minneapolis-St Paul, Melbourne
About:
A portrait of the forgotten figure from the 1960s NYC folk music scene.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Wednesday, November 17:
CHILDREN OF THE ENEMY
Director:
Gorki Glaser-Muller
World Premiere:
CPH:DOX 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Bergen, Krakow, Biografilm, Dokufest,
About:
The heart-rending story of a grandfather reclaiming his grandchildren from the neglect and hate that await the children of ISIS members.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, November 16:
CHOCOLATE ROAD
Director:
Tanya Chuturkova
World Premiere:
Greenwich 2021
About:
An exploration of chocolate, from cacao farmers to high end chocolatiers.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, November 16:
LITTLE GIRL
Director:
Sébastien Lifshitz
World Premiere:
Berlin 2020
Select Festivals:
Karlovy Vary, Docs Against Gravity, Chicago, Ghent, Tokyo, Seville, MIX Brasil, Thessaloniki, Jerusalem, Seattle, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
About:
A portrait of an eight-year-old who wants to express her true gender identity.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, November 16:
THE LOST LEONARDO
Director:
Andreas Koefoed
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
Notable Festivals:
AFI Docs
About:
The inside story behind the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million, claimed to be a long-lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Paramount+ today, Monday, November 15:
ASCENSION
Director:
Jessica Kingdon
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Docaviv, DMZ Docs, Camden, Zurich, Warsaw, Hamptons
About:
An absorbing exploration of the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream,” which prioritizes productivity and innovation above all.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Tuesday, November 16:
SIMPLE AS WATER
Director:
Megan Mylan
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
Montclair, AFI Fest
About:
A meditation on the elemental bonds of family told through portraits of four Syrian families in the aftermath of war.
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Coming to HBO and HBO Max today, Monday, November 15:
A CHOICE OF WEAPONS: INSPIRED BY GORDON PARKS
Director:
John Maggio
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
About:
A chronicle of renaissance man Gordon Parks’ stellar career from staff photographer for LIFE magazine, through his artistic development photographing everyday Americans, through his evolution as a novelist and groundbreaking filmmaker.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to PBS’s Independent Lens today, Monday, November 15:
STORM LAKE
Director:
Jerry Risius, Beth Levison
World Premiere:
Full Frame 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, AFI Docs, Provincetown, Woods Hole, Berkshire, Freep, Woodstock
About:
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Art Cullen and his family and colleagues at Iowa’s Storm Lake Times fight for the survival of their biweekly small-town newspaper and for an informed electorate and functioning democracy.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Paramount+ today, Monday, November 15:
SABAYA
Director:
Hogir Hirori
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
Nantucket, CPH:DOX, True/False, Docaviv, Hong Kong, Moscow, Melbourne
About:
An immersion into dangerous efforts to rescue Yazidi women and girls from their horrific fate as ISIS sex slaves.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
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