MTV Documentary Films acquired the award-winning short subject documentary Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker from director Ryan White (The Case Against 8, Ask Dr. Ruth, The Keepers). The film, narrated by Neil Patrick Harris, won the Best Documentary Short award at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, screened at the 2021 AFI Docs and Nantucket Film Festival, and was named a Critic’s Choice by Independent Magazine.
Sony Pictures Classics will release the documentary Julia from award-winning filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West (RBG) in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on November 5, expanding throughout the month.
Kino Lorber will release The Village Detective: a song cycle, where a Soviet film from 1969 found in a fisherman’s net serves as inspiration for Bill Morrison’s (Dawson City: Frozen Time, Decasia) latest exploration of forgotten histories that endure on celluloid.
The documentary The Price of Freedom, which explores gun violence in America and the history of the National Rifle Association (NRA) will premiere on CNN on Sunday, August 29.
As the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan continue, effectively ending the 20-year war, award-winning filmmakers Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi timely film My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan will open in theaters on August 27th.
Greenwich Entertainment will release the documentary Try Harder! directed by Debbie Lum (Seeking Asian Female) that premiered to glowing reviews at Sundance. Greenwich will release Try Harder! this fall on December 3 during the college application season.
Netflix gives us a look at the life of the famed artist Bob Ross in the documentary Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed. Directed by Joshua Rofé, the documentary film will be released on August 25, 2021.
HBO’s Nuclear Family, a three-part documentary series debuting Sunday, September 26 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) and airing subsequent Sundays at the same time, follows filmmaker Ry Russo-Young as she turns the camera on her own past to explore the meaning of family.
A&E Network goes behind the scenes of the Playboy Mansion in the documentary Secrets of Playboy exploring the hidden truths behind the fable and philosophy of the Playboy empire through a modern-day lens.
Film Forum released the official trailer for Little Girl, Sébastien Lifshitz’s empathetic documentary portrait of a French trans girl and her family. The documentary opens in theaters on Friday, September 17 at Film Forum, with a wider national release to follow.
Greenwich Entertainment will release Israeli filmmaker Maya Sarfaty’s haunting documentary Love It Was Not in movie theaters starting Friday, November 12. The films looks at the impossible and tragic love story between Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and the Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch.
