Category: documentary
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Reel Asian International Film Festival 2021
By Sally Warburton Film Festivals are back!…. Although not fully… The Opening Ceremony was in person at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema but the rest of the films were online. Opening Night on Wednesday, November 10th was the screening of the film ISLANDS. The in-person screening guests included director Martin Edralin, Producer Priscilla Galvez plus…
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STREAMING THANKSGIVING WEEK – ‘IN CASE OF EMERGENCY’ award-winning documentary on emergency nurses has re-release WED. NOV. 24TH by KINO LORBER
STREAMING FREE FOR THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY FROM KINO LORBER WINNER – GRAND JURY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY 2021 United Nations Association Film Festival WINNER – AUDIENCE AWARD The Boston Globe’s 2020 GlobeDocs Film Festival WINNER – ROTARY OF THE CHAGRIN VALLEY SERVICE ABOVE SELF AWARD 2020 Chagrin Film Festival ‘IN CASE OF EMERGENCY’ TIMELY DOCUMENTARY ON EMERGENCY NURSES…
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RIDM announces the 2021 People’s Choice Award: DEAR AUDREY by Jeremiah Hayes
Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) ended its run of theatrical screenings yesterday, Sunday, November 21. The 24th edition presented 78 public screenings for many eager filmgoers who had the opportunity to discover the selected films on the big screen at the Cinémathèque québécoise, Cinéma du Musée, Cinéma du Parc or Cineplex Quartier Latin. Invited to vote for their favourite film,…
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The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)
The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) concludes its screenings in theatres tomorrow, Sunday, November 21. The winners of this 24th edition have just been unveiled at the awards ceremony, which took place at the Cinémathèque québécoise. The RIDM is pleased to announce that all holders of a RIDM online passport or a subscription to Bloc 3 will have…
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LOS ANGELES SPECIAL SCREENING OF THE AWARD WINNING – “LIKE A ROLLING STONE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BEN FONG-TORRES” – DIRECTED BY SUZANNE JOE
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE ACADEMY AWARD® WINNING WRITER/DIRECTORCAMERON CROWE(ALMOST FAMOUS; JERRY MAGUIRE),EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DOUG BLUSH,MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE,LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL,VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS, ANDASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION – LOS ANGELES THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BEN FONG-TORRESA FILM BY SUZANNE JOE KAI MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE9786 West Pico Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90035 FOR MORE INFO: https://likearollingstonemovie.com/ “What a…
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AWARD WINNING ACTRESS, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER AND ARTIST LUCY LIU BOARDS ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY ON THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS: “UNZIPPED: AN AUTOPSY OF AMERICAN INEQUALITY” WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY COLIN K. GRAY
AWARD WINNING ACTRESS, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER AND ARTIST LUCY LIU BOARDS ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY ON THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS: “UNZIPPED: AN AUTOPSY OF AMERICAN INEQUALITY” WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY COLIN K. GRAY LIU JOINS AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER WITH A UNIQUE AND DIVERSE PRODUCTION TEAM, MUSICIANS, AND MORE FOR THIS IMPACTFUL AND MOVING FILM INCLUDING HIP-HOP GROUP RUN…
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Based on the posthumously published bestselling memoir of the same name, the film takes you inside the mind of a young woman who tries to live a full life while dying.
Mallory Smith was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the age of three. In her twenty five-year battle with the deadly disease, she carved out a life that most of us don’t come close to. Using Mallory’s posthumously published 25,000-page secret diaries, hundreds of hours of newly discovered footage, and audio recordings, the film offers Mallory as the narrator of…
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FILMOCRACY FEST 2021 Returns for Second Annual Outing With Hybrid Digital and In-Person Program in Los Angeles, Nationwide December 9-12
FILMOCRACY FEST 2021 Returns for Second Annual Outing With Hybrid Digital and In-Person Program Event Unspools December 9-12 in Los Angeles and Nationwide Special Presentations and Documentary Sections Announced https://festival.filmocracy.com/filmfest2/ Los Angeles, CA (November 11, 2021)—Filmocracy, the world’s premiere digital screening, distribution and experience platform, has announced it will reprise its groundbreaking Film Festival. Their…
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NY PREMIERE 11/11 AHEAD OF PBS DEBUT 11/15.- Acclaimed film STORM LAKE on a family’s fight for community, local newspaper, journalism’s future
NEW YORK PREMIERE AT DOC NYC ON 11/11 AHEAD OF NATIONAL TV & STREAMING RELEASE 11/15 Award-winning documentary Storm Lake on one family’s fight for its community, local newspaper, and journalism’s future will have its New York premiere at DOC NYC on November 11 – ahead of its national TV and streaming debut on PBS on November 15. Featured on NPR’s Fresh…
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TRY HARDER!WORLD PREMIERE – U.S. Documentary Competition – 2021 Sundance Film Festival
A Greenwich Entertainment releaseITVS, The Center for Asian American Media, and California HumanitiesIn Association with XTRPresent TRY HARDER! Directed and Produced by Debbie LumProduced by Nico OpperExecutive Produced by Geralyn Dreyfous, Nadia Pham-Lockwood, Jean Tsien WORLD PREMIERE – U.S. Documentary Competition – 2021 Sundance Film Festival WINNER – 2021 Doc Edge Film FestivalOfficial Selection – 2021…
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First Responder PTSD Documentary “Florian’s Knights” As Rollout Continues for US & Canadian Multiple Market Theatrical and TVOD/Digital and Blu-Ray/DVD
Canadian filmmaker Panayioti Yannitsos (“Freedom Besieged”) Canadian produced powerful independent feature documentary “Florian’s Knights” through Crowbar Pictures, Inc began their rollout release of the film in theaters across the USA and Canada on September 10th. Markets included in the theatrical rollout –New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Chicago, Denver, Phoenix, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, and Saskatoon. A Canadian…
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THEATRICAL DATE OPENING – AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY – “COURAGE” A FILM BY ALIAKSEI PALUYAN – NOVEMBER 12 IN THEATERS – LAEMMLE GLENDALE! PROVIDES A VERY INSIGHTFUL AND DEEP LOOK INTO THE RECENT PROTESTS IN BELARUS.
COURAGE Directed and Written by Aliaksei Paluyan and Produced by Jörg Möllenkamp During the presidential elections in Belarus, three actors from an underground theater in Minsk are caught up in the whirlpool of mass protests. It draws them onto the open streets of Minsk to protest for freedom of speech and the long-awaited change of…
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ImagineNative Media and Arts Festival 2021 Virtual Toronto
By Sally Warburton ImagineNATIVE is the world’s largest presenter of Indigenous films. And it was back for a second virtual year October 19 – 24, 2021. Lots of Indigenous films from all over the world including two which BK screened virtually Solo el Mar Nos Separe and Tote Abuelo The film title says in Spanish Solo…
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37th Annual IDA Documentary Awards Announces 2021 Shortlists for Feature and Short Documentary Films
Los Angeles, CA – The International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced the 37th Annual IDA Documentary Awards shortlists for the Best Feature and Best Short categories. The nominees for all categories will be revealed on Monday, November 15, 2021. The 2021 awards ceremony will take place Saturday, February 5, 2022 at Paramount Studios. From the shortlists, up to ten…
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imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival Announces 2021 Festival Award Winners
Caroline Monnet Wins Dramatic Feature Award for BootleggerLandon Dyksterhouse wins Documentary Feature Award for Warrior Spirit On Sunday, October 24, 2021 at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival online Awards Presentation, the esteemed Festival juries considered film, video, audio, and digital media works Indigenous artists from around the world to select winners in 18 categories with $56,500 in cash prizes…
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DOC NYC ANNOUNCES MAIN SLATE LINEUPFOR TWELFTH EDITION, NOVEMBER 10-28, 2021
FESTIVAL RETURNS TO THEATERS IN NYC AND CONTINUES TO SCREEN ONLINE NATIONWIDE; SLATE INCLUDES 32 WORLD PREMIERES AND 34 US PREMIERES, AMONG MORE THAN 200 FILMS AND EVENTS NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2021 – DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival—running in-person November 10-18 at IFC Center, SVA Theatre and Cinépolis Chelsea and continuing online until November 28—announced…
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DOC NYC 2021- Young Plato (World Premiere/ International Competition)
DOC NYC 2021 YOUNG PLATO (Section: International Competition) WORLD PREMIERE Directors: Neasa Ní Chianáín (School Life) and Declan McGrath Producer: David Rane Running Time: 102 Minutes Language: English Country: Ireland (Feature Documentary) DOC NYC 2021 FESTIVAL SCREENINGS: PUBLIC SCREENING: Sunday, November 14 at 4:05PMLocation: Cinepolis Chelsea Monday, November 15 at 1:15PMLocation: Cinepolis Chelsea An inspiring documentary from the filmmakers of School Life, YOUNG PLATO charts…
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Taskovski newest title THE DANCE – BFI London world premiere
The Dance by Pat Collins Ireland, 2021, 87` Ten weeks before ‘Mám’ premieres in Dublin, acclaimed choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan brings a dozen international dancers, a European classical-contemporary music ensemble and concertina virtuoso Cormac Begley to the Dingle Peninsula for conversation, improvisation and rehearsal. Keegan-Dolan’s methods may initially seem haphazard for translating near-abstract ideas into movement and music,…
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NOW PLAYING IN NYC AT CINEMA VILLAGE; NATIONAL VIRTUAL CINEMA EVENT 11/10 ACCLAIMED NEW FILM ON THE SCIENCE BEHIND PSYCHEDELICS, CONSCIOUSNESS, & HEALING
From Area23a distributor of Fantastic Fungiand Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me comes… AWARD-WINNING & CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY FEATUREAWARE:GLIMPSES OFCONSCIOUSNESS “ENTERTAINING AND ENLIGHTENING.”– Bradley Gibson, Film Threat “Science and spirituality join forces in the mindful if heavily meditative documentary, Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness.”“Consciousness-elevating food for thought.”– Michael Rechtschaffen, Los Angeles Times “IT’S A REMARKABLE FILM.”“The documentary Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness is a heady experience – dare…
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GREENWICH ENTERTAINMENT WILL RELEASE MAYA SARFATY‘S AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY-LOVE IT WAS NOT IN THEATERS STARTING FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5 AT QUAD CINEMA IN NEW YORK CITY
GREENWICH ENTERTAINMENT WILL RELEASE MAYA SARFATY‘S AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY LOVE IT WAS NOT IN THEATERS STARTING FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5AT QUAD CINEMA IN NEW YORK CITY The impossible and tragic love story between Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and the Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch Featuring incredible eyewitness testimony, the film is based on Sarfaty’s 2016 Student Academy Award-winning short The…
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