Two-part documentary “I Love You, Now Die,” that premiered at this year’s 2019 South by Southwest Film Festival, takes a deeper look at the texting suicide case that made national headlines.
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I LOVE YOU, NOW DIE Documentary on Michelle Carter Texting Suicide Case Sets HBO Air Date
I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth Vs. Michelle Carter directed by Erin Lee Carr
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AFI DOCS 2019 Award Winners – CHASING THE MOON and ST. LOUIS SUPERMAN Win Audience Awards
St. Louis Superman CHASING THE MOON, directed by Robert Stone snagged the Audience Award for Best Feature at the AFI DOCS 2019. The Audience Award for Best Short went to ST. LOUIS SUPERMAN, directed by Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan.
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5 Documentary Film Projects Selected for Sundance Institute’s 2019 Documentary Edit and Story Lab
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Director Tabitha Jackson at the 2016 Documentary Edit and Story Lab. (c) 2016 Sundance Institute | Photo by Jonathan Hickerson. Five boundary-pushing nonfiction film project teams will convene at the Sundance Resort in Utah on June 21, for the Sundance Institute’s 2019 Documentary Edit and Story Lab.
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Controversial Muslim Documentary 3 SECONDS DIVORCE is Now Streaming on Neflix
3 Seconds Divorce Streaming now on Netflix is “3 Seconds Divorce” is a controversial documentary three years in the making by award-winning filmmaker Shazia Javed, that sheds light on the practice that allows Muslim men to divorce their wives simply by saying the word ‘divorce’ three times. Commonly called triple-talaq or triple-divorce, this instant, oral divorce can only be given by men. In India, Muslim women have been fighting to have this practice legally abolished.
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HBO Acquires SXSW Documentary ERNIE & JOE
ERNIE & JOE HBO Documentary Films has acquired Jenifer McShane’s (“Mothers of Bedford”) documentary ERNIE & JOE that follows San Antonio, Texas police officers Ernie Stevens and Joe Smarro, who are diverting people from jail and into mental health treatment.
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Hamptons Film Festival Selects 3 Groundbreaking Documentary Films for SummerDocs 2019
Cold Case Hammarskjöld directed by Mads Brügger This summer, Hamptons International Film Festival SummerDocs 2019 hosted by Alec Baldwin (HIFF Co-Chair) will once again lead conversations with filmmakers and guests, presenting three new and groundbreaking documentary filmmaking and thought-provoking stories to the East End at Guild Hall. Films include Maiden directed by Alex Holmes, Cold Case Hammarskjöld directed by Mads Brügger and Circus Of Books directed by Rachel Mason.
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Eunice Lau Tackles Radicalization in Documentary ACCEPT THE CALL at Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Accept the Call directed by Eunice Lau In the new documentary film Accept the Call from Eunice Lau, a father seeks to understand why his son is accused of terrorism. Accept the Call will world premiere at 2019 Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York.
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Documentary WIG – A New York Drag Story, Debuts in June on HBO
Wig, directed by Chris Moukarbel Late one night in 1984, drag queen Lady Bunny and a few friends drunkenly wandered from the Pyramid Club in New York’s East Village to Tompkins Square Park, staging an impromptu drag show in the band shell. This annual drag bacchanal, which would become known as Wigstock, signaled the end of summer in glamorous fashion for the gay community in NYC and lasted almost 20 years.
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Showtime to Air Documentary on Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman
Julian Edelman Narrated by actor Michael Rapaport and featuring original conversations with everyone from Mark Wahlberg to Snoop Dogg, Tom Brady, Michael Strahan and Deion Sanders, the new documentary film 100%: Julian Edelman is an imaginative look inside Julian Edelman’s underdog journey from major injury and NFL suspension to Super Bowl MVP in 2019. Showtime will air the new documentary film 100%: Julian Edelman, premiering on Friday, June 28 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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ROCKABUL Documentary on Metal Band in War Torn Afghanistan, to NY Premiere at Brooklyn Film Festival
District Unknown in RocKabul directed by Travis Beard RocKabul directed by Australian filmmaker Travis Beard examines the counter culture campaign that the US government waged in Afghanistan, told through the eyes of a young band in the war torn capital of Kabul, where rock music is forbidden.
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Sundance Award Winner ONE CHILD NATION Releases Trailer + Release Date
One Child Nation Amazon Studios released the new trailer for the documentary One Child Nation from directors Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. One Child Nation which opens in select theaters on August 9, 2019, uncovers the untold history of China’s One-Child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.
