The new political documentary titled The Swamp, debuting Tuesday, August 4 (9:00-10:55 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO, provides a look behind the curtain of Washington politics by following three renegade Republican Congressmen as they bring libertarian and conservative zeal to champion the President’s call to “drain the swamp,” while facing demands to raise money for their re-election campaigns and the Republican national party.
Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump, is an eye-opening analysis of the president by leading U.S mental health professionals and nonpartisan political strategists, on the record. Featuring the first on-camera interviews with George Conway, John Gartner, Cheryl Koos, Malcolm Nance, and more, the film examines Trump’s effect on our citizenry, culture, and institutions. Unfit will be available to view digitally on September 1st.
A 2020 Tribeca Film Festival Official Selection, Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful, a portrait of the trailblazing art and fashion photographer, will open in virtual cinemas on July 24th.
HIFF Virtual Cinema presents Ai Wei Wei: Yours Truly from director Cherlyn Haines, chronicling the just released artist, dissident and humanitarian as he collaborates on an exciting new art project in San Francisco.
Detailing an incredible true story involving gangsters, strippers, and live bears serving beer on a hockey rink, Red Penguins tells the wild forgotten true story of capitalism and opportunism run amok in 1990s Moscow.
Directed by Linda Goldstein Knowlton, We Are The Radical Monarchs has its national broadcast debut on the PBS documentary series POV on Monday, July 20 at 9 p.m. Set in Oakland, a city with a deep history of social justice movements, the film follows the two trailblazing, queer women of color who created The Radical Monarchs, a more diverse and inclusive alternative to the scout movement.
A two-part documentary series illuminating in sweeping scope and vast detail the rise, fall, and epic comeback of global icon Tiger Woods is in production and set to air on HBO in December. Alex Gibney (Academy Award winner for “Taxi to the Dark Side,” nominee for “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” and Emmy-winner for HBO’s “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief”) are among the executive producers with Academy Award nominee and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman (“Cartel Land,” “A Private War”) and Emmy nominee Matthew Hamachek (“Amanda Knox”) serving as directors of the two-part television presentation. Part one of Tiger will debut Sunday, December 13, with part two airing Sunday, December 20, exclusively on HBO.
The highly anticipated documentary feature Pretending I’m A Superman – The Tony Hawk Video Game Story will have a digital/VOD release on August 18th. The definitive documentary from director Ludvig Gür tells the story of skater turned video game mogul Tony Hawk, and the near extinction of skateboarding culture before exploding back into the mainstream in the early 2000s.
Showtime announced a new feature documentary from Academy Award Winning director Martin Scorsese that profiles David Johansen, the celebrated frontman of the New York Dolls. Emmy nominee David Tedeschi will co-direct with Scorsese.
The new documentary Stockton on My Mind, directed by Emmy(R) winner Marc Levin (HBO’s “Class Divide,” “Thug Life in D.C.”) is the multi-layered story of millennial mayor Michael Tubbs, whose own experience growing up amid poverty and violence inspired him to create innovative change in his beleaguered hometown of Stockton, California.
