Coming to Netflix tomorrow, Thursday, November 17:
PEPSI, WHERE’S MY JET?
Director:
Andrew Renzi
World Premiere:
Netflix (November 2022)
About:
When a 20-year-old attempts to win a fighter jet in a Pepsi sweepstakes, he sets the stage for a David versus Goliath court battle for the history books.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Festival:
The 25th RIDM
Dates:
November 17-27
About:
Montreal’s premier nonfiction event showcases approximately 60 new and recent documentary features.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Overviews, Recommendations
Coming to Netflix tomorrow, Wednesday, November 16:
IN HER HANDS
Director:
Tamana Ayazi, Marcel Mettelsiefen
World Premiere:
Toronto 2022
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Camden, Hamptons
About:
In the months leading up to the Taliban takeover in 2021, Afghanistan’s youngest female mayor, Zarifa Ghafari, deals with danger, uncertainty, and personal turmoil.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Wednesday, November 16:
MASTER OF LIGHT
Director:
Rosa Ruth Boesten
World Premiere:
SXSW 2022
Select Festivals:
San Francisco, DOC NYC
About:
George Anthony Morton, a classical painter who spent ten years in federal prison, travels to his hometown to paint his family members, forcing him to face his past in a quest to rewrite the script of his life.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, November 15:
WHEN CLAUDE GOT SHOT
Director:
Brad Lichtenstein
World Premiere:
SXSW 2021
Select Festivals:
Milwaukee, Hot Springs Doc, St Louis, Portland
About:
Three strangers’ lives become inextricably entwined by a weekend of gun violence.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, November 15:
KADDISH
Director:
Steve Brand
World Premiere:
New Directors/New Films 1984
Select Festivals:
Sundance, New York Jewish
About:
A candid portrait of Yossi Klein Halevi, a young Jewish man who would go on to become a noted writer and activist, as he comes to terms with his father’s traumatic history as a Holocaust survivor.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD and VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, November 15:
MOONAGE DAYDREAM
Director:
Brett Morgen
World Premiere:
Cannes 2022
Select Festivals:
Toronto, Karlovy Vary, Deauville, Jerusalem
About:
An artful and life-affirming journey through David Bowie’s creative life, grappling with spirituality, transience, isolation, creativity, and time to reveal the celebrated icon in his own voice.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to Netflix today, Monday, November 14:
STUTZ
Director:
Jonah Hill
World Premiere:
Theatrical release (November 2022)
About:
In candid conversations with actor Jonah Hill, leading psychiatrist Phil Stutz explores his early life experiences and unique, visual model of therapy.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to PBS’s American Experience today, Monday, November 14 and tomorrow, Tuesday, November 15:
TAKEN HOSTAGE
Director:
Robert Stone
World Premiere:
PBS broadcast (November 2022)
About:
Unfolding like a political thriller, the story of the Iran hostage crisis, when 52 American diplomats, Marines and civilians were held hostage at the American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Disney+ today, Friday, November 11:
FIRE OF LOVE
Director:
Sara Dosa
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, True/False, SXSW, New Directors/New Films, Docaviv, Visions du Reel, Docville, Sydney, Seattle, San Francisco, Cleveland, Ashland, RiverRun, Sun Valley, Provincetown
About:
This story of the doomed love triangle between intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft and the volcanoes they captured in their explosive archival footage.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
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