Donna, a documentary film by award-winning Welsh filmmaker, Jay Bedwani will premiere at Frameline46 San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival at the Castro Theater on June 25 at the height of San Francisco’s Pride Week. The film paints an intimate and candid portrait of Bay Area trans activist, artist, performer and personality, Donna Personna, who was 60 when she made her drag debut at the iconic Aunt Charlie’s.
Netflix debuted the official trailer for Civil, a documentary on a year in the life civil rights attorney Ben Crump as he takes on the civil cases for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Andre Hill.
100 Ways to Cross the Border, the debut feature documentary by artist, filmmaker, and educator Amber Bemak (Two Sons and a River of Blood, Goodbye Fantasy, Borderhole), is set to have its world premiere at the 2022 edition of BAMcinemaFest.
A new half-hour anthology series Spotlights: A Showtime Short Film Series will roll out Sunday, June 12 on Showtime featuring the bold works of various emerging filmmakers, with each episode featuring two to three short films that vary in timely subject matter, tone and perspective.
A foul-mouth comedy about a struggling metal band, Happy F’K’IN Sunshine will have its world premiere at this year’s 25th anniversary edition of Dances With Films film festival in Hollywood.
Set to world premiere at the 2022 Brooklyn Film Festival, here is the teaser trailer for Welcome, Violeta! (Bem-vinda, Violeta!), the psychological thriller from Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Fraiha.
HBO released the official trailer for Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes, the documentary that takes a deep-dive behind the 1986 disaster of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker James Jones (Mosul), Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes debuts Wednesday, June 22 (9:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO.
Here is the teaser trailer for Family Dinner, the new horror/thriller from Austrian filmmaker Peter Hengl, which world premieres at Tribeca Film Festival.
Kino Lorber will release Chase Joynt’s innovative hybrid film Framing Agnes, which explores the lived experiences of trans people past and present through reenactments of transcripts from a UCLA gender study conducted in the 1960s. The film will make its New York premiere at NewFest on June 5, followed by a theatrical release from Kino Lorber in December.
Founded by industry veterans Jamie Shor and Sky Sitney, DC/DOX a new documentary film festival is coming to the nation’s capital, launching with a special one-night-only on June 15, 2022 at the Landmark Atlantic Plumbing Cinema in Washington, DC. The inaugural festival will take place in June 2023.
Ahead of its world premiere at the American Black Film Festival on June 17th, here is the first look teaser clip from Zodiac Features’ new biographical true crime docu-thriller, Lovely Jackson, the feature film directorial debut from filmmaker Matt Waldeck, (“I See You”).
The 8th Annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (MLFF) announced this year’s juried and audience award winners with the top awards from the jury going to “The Civil Dead,” directed by Clay Tatum, written by Clay Tatum and Whitmer Thomas, for Best North American Narrative Feature; and “Tel Aviv,” directed and written by Marat Parkhomovsky, for Best International Narrative Feature.