Festival:
The 29th Hot Docs
Dates:
April 28-May 8
About:
Making its return to an in-person event, along with online offerings throughout Canada, North America’s largest nonfiction event showcases approximately 145 new and recent doc features.
Hot Docs 2022 Overview
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Overviews, Recommendations
Streaming: THE MYSTERY OF MARILYN MONROE: THE UNHEARD TAPES
Coming to Netflix tomorrow, Wednesday, April 27:
THE MYSTERY OF MARILYN MONROE: THE UNHEARD TAPES
Director:
Emma Cooper
World Premiere:
Netflix (April 2022)
About:
An exploration of the mystery surrounding the death of the movie icon, focused on previously unheard interviews conducted with her inner circle.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
On DVD: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT COSBY
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, April 26:
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT COSBY
Director:
W Kamau Bell
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
About:
Can you separate the art from the artist? Should you even try? While there are many people about whom we could ask those questions, none poses a tougher challenge than Bill Cosby.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
On DVD: WRITING WITH FIRE
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, April 26:
WRITING WITH FIRE
Director:
Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Nantucket, IDFA, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, RIDM, BlackStar, Guadalajara, DocsMX, Double Exposure, Sydney, Yamagata Doc, Ambulante, Denver, San Diego Asian, Hawaii, Bergen, San Francisco, Krakow, Seattle, Thessaloniki Doc, One World, Shanghai
Notable Recognition:
The doc was nominated for the Academy Awards.
About:
A chronicle of the trailblazing work of India’s only news outlet run by Dalit women–once known as “untouchable.”
I previously wrote about the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Special Screening: GRANDPA WAS AN EMPEROR
Coming to NYC’s Pure Nonfiction series tonight, Tuesday, April 26:
GRANDPA WAS AN EMPEROR
Director:
Constance Marks
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
Select Festivals:
Doclands, Los Angeles Pan African
About:
The great-granddaughter of famed Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie investigates what happened to her beloved father after the 1974 coup that landed most of her family in prison.
Filed under Documentary, Film
On TV: RESTITUTION? AFRICA’S FIGHT FOR ITS ART
Coming to The WORLD Channel’s AfroPoP today, Monday, April 25:
RESTITUTION? AFRICA’S FIGHT FOR ITS ART
Director:
Nora Philippe
World Premiere:
French TV broadcast (Oct 2021)
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX
About:
Should Western museums return works of art and cultural artifacts to Africa?
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
On TV: BIG SONIA
Coming to PBS today, Monday, April 25:
BIG SONIA
Directors:
Leah Warshawski, Todd Soliday
Premiere:
Napa Valley 2016
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Seattle, Cleveland, Sun Valley, Big Sky Doc, Milwaukee, Durban, Jewish fests in San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Palm beach, Charlotte, Kansas City, Southampton, and Miami
About:
An intimate and at times humorous portrait of an unstoppable Holocaust survivor.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
On TV: AWARE: GLIMPSES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Coming to PBS’s Independent Lens tonight, Monday, April 25:
AWARE: GLIMPSES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Director:
Frauke Sandig, Eric Black
World Premiere:
Hof 2020
Select Festivals:
Docs Against Gravity, Melbourne Doc, Maui, Illuminate
About:
Six researchers take radically different approaches in their investigation of the mysteries of consciousness.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Streaming: THEY CALL ME MAGIC
Coming to Apple TV+ today, Friday, April 22:
THEY CALL ME MAGIC
Director:
Rick Famuyiwa
World Premiere:
Apple TV+ (April 2022)
About:
A docuseries offering an intimate look at the life and legacy of sports icon Earvin “Magic” Johnson.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Streaming: HAMADA
Coming to Film Movement Plus today, Friday, April 22:
HAMADA
Director:
Eloy Domínguez Serén
World Premiere:
IDFA 2018
Select Festivals:
Tempo Doc, Göteborg, Gijon, Doc Montevideo, Cinéma du Réel
About:
A portrait of several of the forgotten Sahrawi people, abandoned in a refugee camp in the middle of the desert ever since Morocco drove them out of Western Sahara forty years ago.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
