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Will a documentary take down the Polish government?
Source: The New York Times Following sexual-abuse scandals in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland and Australia, it appears the Roman Catholic Church may be on the verge of a similar catastrophe in Poland. But whereas the blowback from previous scandals has...
2019’s Must-See Documentaries…So Far
Source: Entertainment Weekly The Biggest Little Farm (In Theaters) - Mature and brimming with uneasy hope, "The Biggest Little Farm" tells the years-long story of a senselessly optimistic couple who exit their Los Angeles life to start a farm from scratch 50 miles...
“The Impossible Dream” is a behind-the-scenes account of the making of groundbreaking animated film “Loving Vincent”
Source: The Hollywood Reporter A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of acclaimed 2017 animated film "Loving Vincent" would seem best suited as a DVD extra. Nonetheless, Miki Wecel's "Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream" will prove fascinating not only to...
Netflix’s “A Tale of Two Kitchens” goes behind the curtain of chef Gabriela Cámara’s celebrated restaurants in San Francisco and Mexico City
Source: Eater In addition to working on a Los Angeles restaurant with Sqirl’s Jessica Koslow, serving as an advisor to Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and publishing her first cookbook, acclaimed chef Gabriela Cámara is also the star of a new Netflix...
“David Crosby: Remember My Name” is one of the year’s best documentaries
Source: Collider Sony Pictures Classics has released the first trailer for "David Crosby: Remember My Name." The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January to rave reviews , and the brutal honesty with which musician David Crosby reflects on his life is...
In Netflix’s “After Maria” families struggle to return home to Puerto Rico
Source: Rolling Stone Three families from Puerto Rico displaced by Hurricane Maria struggle to rebuild their lives and return home in the trailer for "After Maria." The short documentary premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and will arrive May 24 on Netflix. After...
Antoine Fuqua discusses his new HBO doc “What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali”
Source: Business Insider HBO has produced three documentaries about Muhammad Ali over the years and all three won Peabody Awards. Director Antoine Fuqua was well aware of this storied history, but pushed away all the reasons why another Ali doc shouldn't be made...
“Our Godfather” tells the story of Tommaso Buscetta, the Sicilian Mafia informant whose testimony led to more than 400 convictions
Source: The Hollywood Reporter The story of Sicilian Mafia informant Tommaso Buscetta is compellingly told in "Our Godfather," directed by Mark Franchetti and Andrew Meier, that recently received its world premiere at Toronto's Hot Docs festival. Relating the story...
HBO releases trailer for Game of Thrones documentary “The Last Watch”
Source: Entertainment Weekly HBO has released a trailer for "Game of Thrones" documentary "The Last Watch." Among the footage is the first look ever at the fabled season 8 table read (where Kit Harington cried more than once) and a glimpse of star Emilia Clarke’s...
Clinging to Coal: West Virginia’s Fight Over Green Jobs
Source: CBS News For generations, coal has been the backbone of West Virginia, until jobs were eliminated by the tens of thousands. While some are counting on promises made to bring coal back, a new generation is embracing the next opportunity: green energy. But in...
MTV hires HBO’s Sheila Nevins to lead new documentary division
Source: Fast Company Sheila Nevins, former President of HBO Documentary Films, is heading to Viacom to launch MTV Documentary Films, a new division under MTV Studios that “will embrace a new generation of filmmakers exploring the social, political, and cultural...
In short documentary “Boca del Lobo,” reporter Mario Guevara investigates how immigration arrests shape his Atlanta community
Source: The New York Times Beyond the scenes of handcuffed people and crying children that Mario Guevara has documented in covering the increase in immigration-related arrests around Atlanta, one series of images haunts filmmaker Jesse Moss. These images are the vans...
“Foster” takes a dramatic look inside the largest county child welfare agency in the country
Source: Los Angeles Times Is there anything so omnipresent but as little understood as the foster care system? Everyone knows it provides places to stay for children who don’t have safe homes, but what does that mean, and how exactly does it work? Writer-director...
“Killing Patient Zero” tells the story of the man falsely accused of causing the AIDS epidemic in North America
Source: The Hollywood Reporter The title makes it sound like a Cold War spy thriller, but Laurie Lynd's documentary actually sets out to right a wrong. "Killing Patient Zero" rehabilitates the public image of Gaetan Dugas, the French-Canadian flight attendant widely...
Playstation releases fascinating God of War making-of documentary “Raising Kratos”
Source: GameCrate There’s no doubt that 2018’s God of War was last year’s best video game on the PlayStation 4 and one of the best video games of the past ten years. To celebrate the one year anniversary of its release, PlayStation has released a fascinating...
“One Child Nation’s” Wang Nanfu: “Every film is a brand new beginning”
Source: Variety Director Wang Nanfu wracked up accolades for her debut feature “Hooligan Sparrow,” a riveting, guerrilla-style exposé of sexual abuse in China that made the Academy Award shortlist for best documentary. But as she prepared to return to the cutting...
Reserve, Louisiana has the highest rate of cancer in the country. The Guardian presents “Cancer Town”
Source: The Guardian Reserve, Louisiana sits in the heart of an industrial corridor between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. For more than 30 years, it's been known to its residents as “Cancer Alley." That designation stems from the toxic pollution that is spewed out...
Sasha Joseph Neulinger’s “Rewind” is a staggering documentary about sexual abuse trauma
Source: IndieWire Sasha Joseph Neulinger’s heroic and devastating autobiographical documentary opens with questions familiar to many people: Why are home movies always so haunting? What is it that tinges even the happiest footage with a touch of melancholy? What is...
A Scottish teenager navigates hardship upon hardship in harrowing non-fiction feature “Scheme Birds”
Source: Variety “I don’t run away from nothing, I run to it,” says Gemma, the quietly resilient teenager at the center of “Scheme Birds.” Few would blame her for doing the reverse, having been abandoned in infanthood by her parents in the harsh projects of...
Documentary about social justice warrior Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative coming to HBO
Source: Deadline For more than three decades, Alabama public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson has advocated on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned, seeking to eradicate racial discrimination in the criminal justice system. Premiering June 26 on...
