Category: documentary

  • Come Back Anytime DIRECTED BY: JOHN DASCHBACH

    COME BACK ANYTIME DIRECTED BY: JOHN DASCHBACH JAPAN PG 81 MINUTES Watch in Cinema FRI JUL 22 SAT JUL 23 SUN JUL 24 TUE JUL 26 THU JUL 28 Venue details Calling all foodies! Dig in to the mouth-watering story of self-taught noodle master Masamoto Ueda, the culinary genius behind Tokyo’s legendary Bizentei, which he…

  • 1091 Pictures will distribute “Sextortion: The Hidden Pandemic” Globally This Fall

    Investigative Documentary “Sextortion: the Hidden Pandemic” Will Be Released to Global TVOD/Digital Audiences on October 4th Following an Educational Theatrical Tour this Summer. (Los Angeles, CA) 1091 Pictures will distribute Auroris Media’s powerful and timely feature documentary “Sextortion: The Hidden Pandemic” from filmmaker Maria Peek (“I Dream of Dance,” “Third Grade”) across all TVOD/Digital platforms globally beginning on October 4th, 2022.  Auroris Media is launching a national educational screening…

  • MEET THE NBO PLAYERS: LEYLAH FERNANDEZ LOOKS FOR BREAKTHROUGH ON HOME SOIL 

    Written By Tennis Canada Photo : Martin Sidorjak  The preliminary player list for the 2022 National Bank Open presented by Rogers was released on Thursday, July 14 and includes 41 of the top 43 players in the WTA Rankings. As the National Bank Open, which takes place from Aug. 6 to 14 at Sobeys Stadium,…

  • A DOCUMENTARY FILM EXPLORING THE COMPLEXITIES OF CHANGE, GRIEF AND ACCEPTANCE IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY  HUMAN BODY EXPRESSION’S FILM WORK AS PART OF DANCEWORKS’ MOVING ONLINE SERIES 

    STREAMING ONLINE JULY 28 – 31, 2022  CHOREOGRAPHED BY HANNA KIEL  FEATURING DANCERS: RYAN LEE, BONNIE KIM, DARRYL C. TRACY, SUSIE BURPEE, PULGA MUCHOCHOMA, ORIAH WIERSMA, KENDRA EPIK, AND AND 11 YEAR-OLD DANCER EVA TEECE-SOTER How do we navigate change, grief and acceptance in times of uncertainty? DanceWorks presents But Then Again, Human Body Expression’s documentary film work, featuring choreography by Hanna Kiel,…

  • New Release: The Talented Mr.Rosenberg@Hot Docs&Showing Now

    The con is on! Notorious grifter Albert Rosenberg – dubbed the “Yorkville Swindler” by the media – sets out to set the record straight…or does he? A handsome and fashionable septuagenarian with a taste for life’s finer things, his outward charm masks a jaw-dropping history of heart-breaking betrayal, outrageous lies and elaborate masquerades. As he…

  • HBO FYC: GEORGE CARLIN’S AMERICAN DREAM, Directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio

    George Carlin’s American Dream is a 2022 two-part documentary film about comedian George Carlin directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio.Then he discovered drugs. Carlin unpacked his mind, stopped shaving his beard, and changed his act. What “George Carlin’s American Dream” really captures is how much its subject was willing to shift and change, never…

  • ‘POV’ OPENS ITS 35TH SEASON WITH GRIPPING DOCUMENTARY WUHAN WUHAN ON JULY 11, 2022

    Filmmakers Yung Chang, Diane Quon, Peter Luo, and Donna Gigliotti explore the early days of Covid-19 in Wuhan, China Debuts on PBS Television Nationwide and Streaming on PBS.org Watch Trailer • Download Press Photos New York, N.Y. –The 35thanniversary season of POV, America’s longest running documentary series, opens with the heart rendering observational film Wuhan Wuhan, about the first…

  • Executive Producer Tennis Star Naomi Osaka and Academy Award®-Winning Director Ben Proudfoot (The Queen of Basketball) Team Up on the New Short Documentary MINK!

    Executive Producer Naomi Osaka and Academy Award®-Winning Director Ben Proudfoot (The Queen of Basketball) Team Up on the New Short Documentary MINK! Released Today by The New York Times Op-Docs in Association with Osaka’s Hana Kuma  Told by Her Daughter Wendy, MINK! Chronicles the Remarkable Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Japanese American From Hawaii Who  Became the First Woman of Color Elected to the…

  • The award-winning documentary, Struggle in Paradise, about his Faces of Homelessness portrait project 

    Thursday, June 9 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM PTFaces of Homelessness Dare to see  Break the Barrier  Open Your HeartRegistration is required for this free live private Zoom event. Please join The Friends of the Semel Institute and the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital Board of Advisors for an Open Mind program with Stuart Perlman, PhD, Psychologist/Psychoanalyst/Artist, who made the award-winning documentary, Struggle…

  • Wrestling Legend Susan “Tex” Green to Attend World Premiere of OUT IN THE RING at Toronto Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival

    Toronto – After a 4 1/2 year production journey, the much anticipated documentary OUT IN THE RING, exploring the history of LGBTQIA+ wrestlers and queer representation in professional wrestling will have its world premiere as part of the prestigious line-up at the Toronto Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival on Friday, June 3rd at 4:45 p.m.…

  • Hot Docs 2022- “Dio: Dreamers Never Die” and “The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks – Tues., May 3rd,2022

    Tuesday was a ”double header” for Hot Docs, as we looked forward to screening “Dio:Dreamers Never Die” and “The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks. “Dio: Dreamers Never Die” was a highly anticipated documentary about Dio (Ronald James Padavona his real name), from his classic rock days in Ritchie Blackmore‘s RAINBOW, to replacing the iconic lead singer Ozzy Osbourne in BLACK SABBATH,…

  • HOT DOCS WRAPS 2022 FESTIVAL ETERNAL SPRING TAKING BOTH ROGERS AUDIENCE AWARD AND HOT DOCS AUDIENCE AWARD; TOP THREE CANADIAN FEATURES SHARE $50K PRIZE 

    Hot Docs 2022 wrapped last night, bringing 225 films from 63 countries to audiences in Toronto cinemas and across Canada online. The 11-day hybrid festival featured 318 live screenings on nine screens at four venues across the city with 223 live filmmaker Q&As, and five special extended discussions with filmmakers and special guests as part of the…

  • HOT DOCS 2022 – World premiere of ‘SAM NOW’ powerful documentary feature from director REED HARKNESS in INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM SECTION

    POWERFUL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE SAM NOWFROM DIRECTOR REED HARKNESSTO HAVE WORLD PREMIERE AT HOT DOCS 2022IN THE INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM SECTION Told by his sibling over 25 years through home videos, Super 8 films and contemporary videos, SAM NOW is an emotional, vibrant portrait of a mother and son’s relationship after she leaves him at 14 years old to start a…

  • Award-winning filmmaker Emmett Adler’s feature documentary END OF THE LINE is a character-driven political drama about the New York City subway crisis  

    END OF THE LINE DIRECTED, EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: EMMETT ADLER Executive Producer: Emmett Adler, Ian MayerProducers: Emmett Adler, Ian Mayer; Co-Producer Mariah Wilson OFFICIAL SELECTION: DOC NYC END OF THE LINE WILL BE RELEASED ON DIGITAL AND CABLE ON DEMAND PLATFORMS IN THE UNITED STATES ON TUESDAY, JUNE 14  VOD PLATFORMS INCLUDE: Apple/iTunes, Amazon, GooglePlay, Vudu, Microsoft…

  • Generation Africa at Hot Docs 2022

    Two Generation Africa films selected for Hot Docs 2022 African Moot by Shameela Seedat celebrates its world premiereTwo documentaries from Generation Africa, an initiative by STEPS in South Africa, have been selected at this year’s Hot Docs in Toronto, running April 28 – May 8. African Moot by Shameela Seedat, who won the Special Jury Pize at the festival in…

  • FRAMING AGNES – Hot Docs 2022

    Click here to view the trailer.  The PREMIERE of FRAMING AGNES at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on MAY 1, 2022Story: The film follows a young trans woman named Agnes in the late 1950s, who participated in Harold Garfinkel’s gender health research at UCLA, to gain access to the gender affirming care she so willfully sought out. Her story was considered…

  • World premiere of BEAUTIFUL SCARS, Musician Tom Wilson’s quest to uncover his true identity as a Mohawk man

    CREAM FILMS’ STRANGER-THAN-FICTION FILM BEAUTIFUL SCARS REVEALS THE HIDDEN INDIGENOUS IDENTITY THAT ROCKED MUSICIAN TOM WILSON’S WORLD From Métis Director Shane Belcourt, The Documentary Will Have Its World Premiere Screening at Hot Docs on May 2 Run time: 87 minutes Premiere: May 2 5:15 PM Bell Lightbox 2 2nd Public: May 5 11:15 AM Bell Lightbox 2 Available for interviews: Shane Belcourt, Tom…

  • The Friends Open Mind Sneak Preview, “Gratitude Revealed”

    TUESDAY, MAY 107:00PM – 9:00PM PThttps://host.nxt.blackbaud.com/registration-form/?formId=3061811b-ec0c-4728-b9c2-e184bdb18fa1&envId=p-zCrdL4cOz0CZBvCOF9r06Q&bbeml=tp-zCrdL4cOz0CZBvCOF9r06Q.j9jUKog4ktk2udz27h35xXg.rMI-wbysNk06azoPUrupukQ.l_0ukSf6m-kWfv8qQAfVG1wUCLA’s Friends of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience Human Behavior and the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Board of Advisors in collaboration with the Jane and Terry Semel UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative, is proud to present an in-person SNEAK PREVIEW of GRATITUDE REVEALED, the new feature film from award-winning cinematographer, director, and producer, Louie…

  • AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR SHALINI KANTAYYA RETURNS TO HOT DOCS WITH TIKTOK, BOOM.

    CANADIAN PREMIERE ON MONDAY, MAY 2 New film continues filmmaker Shalini Kantayya‘s engagement in the space where technology meets, amplifies, and opposes our humanity; Follows her acclaimed documentary feature Coded Bias     SYNOPSIS – TIKTOK, BOOM. Dissecting one of the most influential platforms of the contemporary social media landscape, TikTok Boom examines the algorithmic, socio-political, economic, and cultural influences and impact of…

  • Hot Docs world premiere “How Saba Kept Singing” Exec. produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, David Wisnia’s final journey documented in this must see film

    A Retro Report and HiddenLight Productions presentation, in association with Burnt Umber Productions Directed, Written and Produced by Sara Taksler Executive Produced by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton Run time: 78 minutes World Premiere Hot Docs screening  Sunday, May 1, 2022 @ 2:30pm ET at TIFF Bell Lightbox 1 Additional festival screenings as follows: Friday, May 6, 2022 @ 11:00 am…