Tania Cypriano’s “Born to Be” which world-premiered at the 2019 New York Film Festival, will have its exclusive NYC premiere in Film Forum’s Virtual Cinema beginning Wednesday, November 18. Born to Be looks at pioneering surgeon Dr. Jess Ting and his patients at Mount Sinai’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.
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The HBO documentary series THE VOW “finale” aired last night October 18, 2020, but it is not over – the series will return with a second installment of episodes, to air in 2021. The Emmy-winning, Academy Award nominated team of Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer will again direct and executive produce.
The new documentary Restaurant Hustle 2020: All On The Line follows world-class chefs Maneet Chauhan, Antonia Lofaso, Christian Petroni,and Marcus Samuelsson as they each picked up a camera and with the help of friends and family to document the challenges their restaurants faced during the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. The film from Executive Producer Guy Fieri, will have its World Premiere at the virtual 2020 DOC NYC festival in November, and will premiere nationally on Food Network on Sunday, December 27th at 9pm ET/PT.
Things We Dare Not Do (Cosas que no hacemos), the second feature film by Mexican director and cinematographer Bruno Santamaría has its U.S. premiere in the Documentary and Out-look competitions at the 56th Chicago International Film Festival, followed by its participation at the 11th edition of DOC NYC.
Get the first look at a video clip from Lauren DeFilippo and Katherine Gorringe’s Red Heaven, a prescient exploration of self-imposed quarantine that chronicles a one-year mission in a Mars simulation pod by six volunteers, set to World Premiere at the online edition of DOC NYC 2020.
Netflix will release the documentary film AmarElo – It’s all for yesterday, by Brazilian rapper, singer, songwriter and MC, Emicida, with animations, interviews and backstage scenes on December 8, 2020. Having the rapper’s show at Theatro Municipal of São Paulo in 2019 as a spine, the film directed by Fred Ouro Preto explores the production of the Estúdio AmarElo project and, at the same time, the history of Brazilian black culture in the last 100 years.
The new docu-feature “Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb” will premiere on Netflix on October 28th and documents the discovery of a “one of a kind” tomb that came to life beneath the sand at the archaeological site Saqqara in Egypt. Directed by James Tovell, the documentary films a team of local archaeologists excavating never before explored passageways, shafts, and tombs, piecing together the secrets of Egypt’s most significant find in almost 50 years.
Following its world premiere at IDFA and its North American premiere at AFI Docs, the Kenyan family docu-drama The Letter by Maia Lekow and Christopher King heads to DOC NYC 2020 for its East Coast premiere as part of International Perspectives, in addition to five other US festivals.
DOC NYC announced the lineup of over 200 films for its eleventh edition, running online from November 11-19 and available to viewers across the US. Fifty-seven features (53% of the lineup) are directed or co-directed by women and 36 by BIPOC directors (34% of the feature program).
The Soul of America directed by KD Davison follows writer, journalist, historian and prolific presidential biographer Jon Meacham as he offers his timely and invaluable insights into the United States’ current political and historical moment by examining its past.
First Vote, Yi Chen’s documentary on the Asian American experience at the voting polls will have its World Broadcast Premiere on October 20, 2020.