The acclaimed documentary film The Russian Five directed by Joshua Riehl is now playing in U.S. movie theaters ahead of a national expansion to Seattle (4/26), Los Angeles (5/3), New York (5/31) and many more to be announced soon.
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ARTIFISHAL, Patagonia Documentary on Fight to Save Fish and Rivers to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
“Concerned citizens protest net-pen salmon farms at a Cooke Aquaculture facility. Eight months later, the state legislature voted to stop renewal of leases for Atlantic salmon net pens in Puget Sound. Bainbridge Island, Washington.” PATAGONIA FILM “ARTIFISHAL” Photo credit: Ben Moon Executive produced by Patagonia founder, Yvon Chouinard and directed/produced by Josh “Bones” Murphy, ‘Artifishal’ tells the story of fish hatcheries and fish farms from California to Norway. It explores wild salmon’s slide toward extinction, threats posed by fish hatcheries and fish farms, and our continued loss of faith in nature. The film will World Premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday, April 25, 2019.
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DOLORES, MINDING THE GAP, SHIRKERS Among Nominees for Peabody Awards
Minding the Gap The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors announced the 60 nominees that represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2018. Thirty winners selected from amongst these nominees will be announced beginning next week.
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Award-Winning LGBTQ Documentary THE LAVENDER SCARE Opens Theatrically on June 7
THE LAVENDER SCARE. Frank Kameny Picketing: Frank Kameny leads a picket line in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July 4, 1965. Forty activists joined the protest, making it (at the time) the largest public demonstration for LGBT rights in world history. The Lavender Scare, the award-winning documentary film tells the story of the vicious witch hunt where tens of thousands of gay men and lesbians were fired from their jobs in a decades-long effort by the U.S. government to rid the federal workforce of homosexuals.
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17 BLOCKS, Documentary on Twenty Years in the Life of a DC Family, to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
Emmanuel Manny Durant in 17 BLOCKS by Davy Rothbart The documentary 17 Blocks, an intimate chronicle of a DC-based family’s struggles with addiction and gun violence, directed by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Davy Rothbart will premiere on Saturday, April 27 at the Tribeca Film Festival in the Documentary Competition section.
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Paul Conroy and Marie Colvin’s Syrian DocuDrama UNDER THE WIRE to Air on STARZ
Photographer Paul Conroy and Sunday Times War Correspondent Marie Colvin. Under the Wire The feature drama-documentary Under the Wire, based on the book of the same name by Paul Conroy, Under The Wire tells the incredible story of his and Marie Colvin’s fateful mission – and Conroy’s epic battle to escape the Syrian city. Under the Wire from BAFTA-nominated director Chris Martin (The War on Democracy) will premiere on Monday, April 22nd at 9 PM ET/PT on STARZ.
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Mudding Enthusiasts Documentary RED, WHITE & WASTED to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
RED, WHITE & WASTED Red, White & Wasted is a new documentary from directors Andrei Bowden-Schwartz and Sam B. Jones that follows a family of mudding enthusiasts as the last mudhole in Orlando, Florida. The documentary will World Premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday, April 25.
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Netflix Releases Trailer for HOMECOMING: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ, Beyonce’s Historic 2018 Coachella Performance Documentary
Homecoming: A Film by Beyonce Netflix today released the official trailer for Homecoming: A Film by Beyonce, a documentary film described as “an intimate look at Beyoncé’s historic 2018 Coachella performance that paid homage to America’s historically black colleges and universities.”
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ST. LOUIS SUPERMAN, Documentary on Bruce Franks Jr. Ferguson Activist-Turned-Politician, to Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
St. Louis Superman St. Louis Superman is a new documentary short chronicling Bruce Franks Jr., a Ferguson activist and battle rapper who was elected to the overwhelmingly white and Republican Missouri House of Representatives, and must overcome both personal trauma and political obstacles to pass a bill critical for his community.
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Watch Powerful Trailer for GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH Documentary World Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival
Gay Chorus Deep South The first trailer is here for the new documentary Gay Chorus Deep South chronicling The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus’ life-changing Lavender Pen Tour through five southern states in the fall of 2017.
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Emoji Documentary PICTURE CHARACTER to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival.
Picture Character. The inventor of emoji, Shigetaka Kurita, draws his original smiley face emoji. Picture Character, a documentary about emojis, will have its World Premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. Directors Martha Shane and Ian Cheney take us deep into the world of Emojis (Japanese for “picture character”), from the private non-profit international consortium that standardized emoji offerings and decides on the introduction of new ones, to the campaigns for new emojis such as those depicting menstruation and Argentinian mate, and to the very beginnings of emojis in Japan.
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Watch Trailer for THE SPY BEHIND HOME PLATE, Documentary on Moe Berg, the Baseball Player Turned Spy
The Spy Behind Home Plate. Moe Berg as a catcher during his time in MLB – Courtesy of Irwin Berg The Spy Behind Home Plate, the film from award-winning documentary filmmaker Aviva Kempner about Moe Berg, the baseball player turned spy, premiered the official trailer. The Spy Behind Home Plate is set for national release on Friday, May 24.