Category Archives: Releases

Coming to PBS beginning this Sunday, September 19:
MUHAMMAD ALI

Director:
Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon

World Premiere:
PBS broadcast (September 2021)

About:
A four-part docuseries providing an in-depth look at the life of the legendary boxer, activist, and philanthropist.

Coming to VOD today, Friday, September 17:
THE WONDERFUL: STORIES FROM THE SPACE STATION

Director:
Clare Lewins

World Premiere:
DocEdge 2021

Select Festivals:
Moscow Doc

About:
Drawing on breathtaking archive and interviews with astronauts, cosmonauts, colleagues, and family members, the personal testimonies from the men and women who have been part of the International Space Station.

Coming to NYC’s IFC Center today, Friday, September 17:
CIVIL WAR (OR, WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE)

Director:
Rachel Boynton

World Premiere:
Peacock release (June 2021)

About:
An exploration of how America remembers the Civil War and what the stories we tell reveal about who we are, from President Obama’s final year in office through the present.

Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, September 17:
IN BALANCHINE’S CLASSROOM

Director:
Connie Hochman

World Premiere:
FilmFest DC 2021

Select Festivals:
SF Dance, Woodstock

About:
A look back at the glory years of George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet through the remembrances of his former dancers and their quest to fulfill the vision of a genius.

Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, September 17:
SAVIOR FOR SALE: DA VINCI’S LOST MASTERPIECE?

Director:
Antoine Vitkine

World Premiere:
French release (April 2021)

About:
A journey on the hidden trails of money, power, and deception behind the disputed rediscovered masterpiece.

Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, September 17:
BORIS KARLOFF: THE MAN BEHIND THE MONSTER

Director:
Thomas Hamilton

World Premiere:
theatrical release (September 2021)

About:
An exploration of the life, career, and legacy of William Henry Pratt, better known by his stage name, Boris Karloff.

Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, September 17:
STORM LAKE

Director:
Jerry Risius, Beth Levison

World Premiere:
Full Frame 2021

Select Festivals:
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.

Coming to theatres this Friday, September 17:
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.

Coming to theatres this Friday, September 17:
FERGUSON RISES

Director:
Mobolaji Olambiwonnu

World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021

About:
Six years after the fatal shooting of an unarmed Michael Brown Jr by a white police officer, and the subsequent days of protest, a new portrait of the community of Ferguson.