#Documentary
Trailer Watch: “Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste” Exposes Sexual Abuse and Manipulation
“We have a pleasure deficit disorder in this country. I think that there is a cure and that cure is female orgasm,” says Nicole Daedone in a new trailer for “Orgasm Inc: The Story...
Trailer Watch: Lizzie Gottleib’s “Turn Every Page” Pays Tribute to Robert Caro & Robert Gottlieb
“Words matter, mood matters, rhythm matters, commas matter, semicolon matters – and the fights go on,” we’re told in the latest trailer for Lizzie Gottleib’s “Turn Every Page – The...
Trailer Watch: Rachel Lears Reunites with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for “To the End”
“Fighting for change politically requires faith,” says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a new trailer for “To the End.” Rachel Lears’ follow-up to “Knock Down the...
Trailer Watch: An Afghan Politician Fights for Women’s Education Rights in “In Her Hands”
Described by director Tamana Ayazi as “the story of Afghanistan and its people from 2020 until now,” “In Her Hands” follows Zarifa Ghafari, one of Afghanistan’s first...
Cinema Eye Honors: “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing,” “Black and Missing,” & More Land Noms
Awards season is heating up. Earier this week, nominations for the Critics Choice Documentary Awards dropped and now The Cinema Eye Honors is announcing its first round of noms for doc films and...
Pick of the Day: “Descendant”
What does it mean to be a descendant? The concept of ancestry is nebulous, abstract, and often taken for granted by folks who are lucky enough to be able to trace their genealogy. To be a lineal...
“Fire of Love” Leads Noms for Critics Choice Doc Awards
The nominations are in for the seventh annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards, and Sara Dosa’s “Fire of Love” leads the pack with a whopping seven noms. Her tribute to...
Trailer Watch: Laura Poitras Tackles Art and the Opioid Crisis in “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”
“When you think of the profit of people’s pain, you can only be furious,” says Nan Goldin in a new trailer for Laura Poitras’ “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.”...
DOC NYC Announces Main Slate: “Aftershock,” “In Her Hands,” & More
DOC NYC has announced its 2022 main slate. Set to take place in-person November 9-17 and continuing online through November 27, this year’s edition of America’s largest doc fest includes...
Titi Yu Talks Community Organizing & Healing in “Rising Against Asian Hate: One Day in March”
Titi Yu is an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, producer, and journalist. Most recently, she won two Emmys for her investigative journalism with VICE News. She is also a recipient of the New York...
Idina Menzel Doc From Anne McCabe in the Works at Disney+
A new Disney+ documentary will give viewers an intimate glimpse into the world of the vocal powerhouse who gave Queen Elsa her unforgettable voice. A press release announced that “Idina Menzel:...
Erin Derham Directing NFT Doc “To Boldly Go”
Erin Derham is following up 2019’s “Stuffed,” a look inside the world of taxidermy, with “To Boldly Go,” a doc that will “explore the explosion of NFTs and the...
Trailer Watch: Selena Gomez Opens Up About Mental Health in “My Mind & Me”
“Just be who you are,” Selena Gomez reminds herself in a new trailer for a doc offering a candid look inside her life and struggles with mental health. “No one cares about what...
Trailer Watch: Sara Terry’s “A Decent Home” Examines Corporate Greed and the U.S. Housing Crisis
Sara Terry takes on a David and Goliath story in “A Decent Home,” a doc exploring the battle between mobile home owners and profit-hungry private equity firms. “Even though I own my...
Trailer Watch: “Descendant” Spotlights the Legacy of the Last Slave Ship to Arrive in U.S.
“You have this type of history, your ancestors are going to always talk to you,” we’re told in a new trailer for Margaret Brown’s “Descendant.” The Netflix doc...
“In the Bones” Director Kelly Duane de la Vega Talks Mississippi and Fighting the Patriarchy
Kelly Duane de la Vega’s award-winning documentaries have screened at film festivals worldwide, opened theatrically, and broadcast nationally on PBS and Netflix. “The Two Killings of Sam...
Trailer Watch: “The Fire That Took Her” Pays Tribute to Judy Malinowski & Others Affected by Domestic Abuse
“She told detectives over and over: he’s going to kill me,” we’re told in the newly released trailer for “The Fire That Took Her.” October is National Domestic Violence Awareness...
NYFF 2022 Women Directors: Meet Margaret Brown – “Descendant”
Margaret Brown’s documentary work examines the American South, from a seminal film on Townes Van Zandt “Be Here to Love Me,” to the impactful story of the BP oil spill’s lasting impact “The...
October 2022 Film Preview
October will mark the release of a number of buzzy films that we’ve been tracking on the festival circuit, starting with “Tár” (October 7), a drama about a world-famous conductor...
Malala Yousafzai Has An Apple Doc About a Community of Korean Fisherwomen in the Works
Nobel Peace Prize-winning education activist Malala Yousafzai is bringing the story of “Korea’s mermaids” to Apple. Along with Erika Kennair (“The Flight Attendant”),...
Trailer Watch: Nina Menkes’ “Brainwashed” Exposes How Women Are Dehumanized in Cinema
“The male gaze is definitely normalized in our society,” we’re told in a new trailer for “Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power.” The doc explores how women are objectified in...
Trailer Watch: Feel the Sugar High in “The Pez Outlaw”
“Pez: it’s like printing money,” rejoices Steve Glew, the self-designated Pez Outlaw, in a new trailer for the directorial debut of Amy Bandlien Storkel. Winner of a Special Jury prize at SXSW...
Pick of the Day: “Nothing Compares”
It’s not an unusual for docs paying tribute to musical artists to begin with a performance, but I’ve never seen anything quite like the opening scene of “Nothing Compares”...
Trailer Watch: Sarah Jones Explores the Sex Industry in “Sell/Buy/Date”
Sarah Jones is exploring a topic that’s “not often talked about:” the sex industry. “Sell/Buy/Date,” an adaptation of the Tony Award-winning performer, writer, comedian,...
Exclusive: Abigail Disney Calls Out Inequality in “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales” Clip
Abigail Disney’s latest pulls back the curtain on the happiest place on Earth. “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales” sees the activist, philanthropist, and filmmaker following...
Trailer Watch: Ondi Timoner Says Goodbye to Her Father in “Last Flight Home”
“I’m ready to go to the next adventure,” says Eli Timoner in a new trailer for “Last Flight Home.” Described as “so full of life” and “a pillar of...
Trailer Watch: “Battleground” Goes Inside the Anti-Abortion Movement
Described by director Cynthia Lowen as an “urgently timely window into the intersection of abortion and politics in America,” “Battleground” follows three women who lead...
Pick of the Day: “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales”
Disney branding itself as a wholesome, magical company where dreams come true, where happy endings are within everyone’s grasp, has always been treacly enough to irk me. But now, after watching...
Trailer Watch: Brandi Carlile Pushes For “The Return of Tanya Tucker”
“When I heard that Tanya Tucker hadn’t made a record in the better part of 15 years, I suddenly realized how potent an influence Tanya Tucker has been on women in country music,”...
TIFF 2022 Women Directors: Meet Angela Wanjiku Wamai – “Shimoni” (“The Pit”)
Angela Wanjiku Wamai works as a film editor in Nairobi, Kenya. She was recently awarded best film editor by the Women in Film Awards – Kenya. In 2018 she wrote “I Had to Bury...
TIFF 2022 Women Directors: Carmen Jaquier – “Thunder”
Swiss film director Carmen Jaquier graduated from the Cantonal School of Art in Lausanne (ECAL) in 2011. Her graduation film, “The Girls’ Gravere,” went on to receive the Pardino...
TIFF 2022 Women Directors: Meet Liliane Mutti – “Miúcha, The Voice of Bossa Nova”
Born in Salvador, Brazil, Liliane Mutti is the founder of the Ciné Nova Bossa Association in Paris. She produces and directs films with strong political engagement, such as “Ecocide,”...
TIFF 2022 Women Directors: Meet Stephanie Johnes – “Maya and the Wave”
Stephanie Johnes is a director, producer, and documentary filmmaker who gravitates toward stories of underdogs and dreamers. Her directorial debut, “Doubletime,” premiered at SXSW and Tribeca and...
TIFF 2022 Women Directors: Meet Lauren DeFilippo – “Free Money”
Lauren DeFilippo is a documentary filmmaker based in New York City. She most recently produced “Ailey” (Sundance 2021), an acclaimed feature documentary that was released in theaters...
TIFF 2022 Women Directors: Malou Reymann – “Unruly”
Malou Reymann is a director and screenwriter who graduated from the National Film and Television School in England. Her debut feature, “A Perfectly Normal Family,” which premiered at...
TIFF 2022 Women Directors: V.T. Nayani – “This Place”
V.T. Nayani is a director, producer, and writer. She is a recipient of the UN Women Yvonne M. Hebert Award for filmmakers and photographers. Most recently, she completed her residency in the...
TIFF 2022 Women Directors: Sinéad O’Shea – “Pray for Our Sinners”
Sinéad O’Shea is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. Her first feature documentary, “A Mother Brings her Son to be Shot,” premiered at CPH:DOX 2018 where it was nominated for a...
TIFF 2022 Women Directors: Nisha Pahuja – “To Kill a Tiger”
Nisha Pahuja is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in Toronto and Bombay. Her credits include the critically-acclaimed “Diamond Road,” “Bollywood Bound,” and “The World...
Doc from Saelyx Finna, Mia Imani, & Laurie Polisky Wins Gamechanger-Sandbox Accelerator Award
Director-producers Saelyx Finna, Mia Imani, and Laurie Polisky will make a documentary about dream technology and surveillance with the backing of Gamechanger Films and Sandbox Films. According to a...
Pick of the Day: “Loving Highsmith”
“Loving Highsmith” assumes that you are familiar, to some degree, with the work of author Patricia Highsmith — or at least the numerous screen adaptations of her novels, such as...
Eva Vitija on Paying Tribute to “The Price of Salt” Author Patricia Highsmith in “Loving Highsmith”
Eva Vitija has written many feature film scripts for cinema and television, including “Meier,” “Marilyn,” “Madly in Love,” and “Sommervögel.”...
September 2022 Film Preview
The festival scene is heating up this month, with Venice, Telluride, and Toronto premiering a bevy of potential awards contenders. Thankfully, there’s also plenty to look forward to screening...
Cynthia Lowen’s Abortion Rights Doc “Battleground” to Be Released by Abramorama & ROCO Films
Most Americans support the legal right to abortion, and people from all backgrounds have abortions — so why is it such a polarizing issue? Why do anti-choicers have so much influence and...
Rosa Ruth Boesten’s SXSW Winner “Master of Light” Acquired by HBO Documentary Films
HBO Documentary Films has landed worldwide rights to “Master of Light,” which took home SXSW’s top non-fiction prize earlier this year. Deadline confirmed the news. Rosa Ruth...
Trailer Watch: Sandra Alvarez Takes a Look at the “InHospitable” U.S. Hospital System
“Today, what we see is that everyone but the one percent is at risk of financial disaster, from even a relatively minor healthcare encounter,” we are told in the new trailer for...
Array Releasing Lands Iliana Sosa’s SXSW Winner “What We Leave Behind”
Ava DuVernay’s Array Releasing has secured U.S., Canadian, U.K., Australian, and New Zealand rights to “What We Leave Behind.” From director Iliana Sosa, the doc made its world...
Laura Poitras’ “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” Acquired by Neon Ahead of Venice Premiere
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” has yet to make its world premiere at Venice Film Festival or its subsequent outings at Toronto and New York Film Festivals, but it’s already been...
TIFF Adds Docs From Laura Poitras & Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Expands Contemporary World Cinema Slate
The program for the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival continues to grow. The fest has added new titles to its TIFF Docs and Contemporary World Cinema sections. The former...
Women Photojournalist Doc “No Ordinary Life” to Premiere on CNN
“No Ordinary Life” is coming to the small screen. The Tribeca Film Festival documentary about women photojournalists is set to premiere on CNN at 10:00 p.m. EST on Labor Day, September...
Taskovski Films Nabs Susanna della Sala’s Locarno Pic “Last Stop Before Chocolate Mountain”
More announcements out of Locarno: Susanna della Sala’s “Last Stop Before Chocolate Mountain,” which is due to have its premiere at the fest August 9 as part of the Critics Week section, has...
Camilla Nielsson’s Political Doc “President” Banned in Zimbabwe
Camilla Nielsson’s “President,” a documentary following Nelson Chamisa’s challenge to incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa during Zimbabwe’s 2018 presidential race — the...