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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Watch Powerful Trailer for GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH Documentary World Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival
Gay Chorus Deep South
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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.
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Dance Documentary IF THE DANCER DANCES Releases Official Trailer + Poster
If the Dancer Dances The dance documentary If the Dancer Dances which follows one of New York City’s top modern dance companies preparing for a major performance, released the official trailer and poster. The documentary, directed by Maia Wechsler, opens theatrically in New York (The Quad) on Friday, April 26th and in Los Angeles on Friday, May 3rd (Laemmle Music Hall) with a national release to follow.
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WALKING ON WATER, A Window Into the Creative Process of Artist Christo, Opens May 17
Walking on Water Documented with uncensored access to Christo and his team, Andrey Paounov’s Walking on Water is a cinema vérité look at the celebrated artist and his process, from inception to completion of 2016’s most visited art event—The Floating Piers, a stretched 2-mile dahlia-yellow walkway that allowed over 1.2 million visitors to safely walk across stretches of Italy’s Lake Iseo to experience the sensation of floating and walking on water. Walking on Water opens in theaters beginning May 17.
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Documentary GENERAL MAGIC, on Rise and Fall of One of the Most Influential Tech Companies, Sets May Release Date
Engineer Megan Smith, General Magic. Megan Smith went on to become VP of Google, founder of Planet Out, The Malala Fund, shift7 and White House Chief Technology Officer under the Obama Adminstration. This incredibly insightful film General Magic from directors Matthew Maude and Sarah Kerruish, that premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, looks at the rise and fall of the most influential Silicon Valley company you have never heard of called General Magic.
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QUIET STORM: THE RON ARTEST STORY, Intimate Look at the NBA Star, to Debut on Showtime
Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story The award-winning documentary Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story, directed by Johnny Sweet, and based on the turbulent life of one of the NBA’s most controversial figures will premiere on SHOWTIME during Mental Health Awareness Month on Friday, May 31 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
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RENEGADE DREAMERS Chronicles Artists Carrying on Tradition of Radical Folk Singers of the 60’s
Renegade Dreamers Renegade Dreamers, a new feature documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Karen Kramer (The Jolo Serpent Handlers, The Ballad of Greenwich Village), is a window into the New York spoken word poets and folk singers of today who use their art for social change, interwoven with the Beat poets and radical protest singers of the legendary Greenwich Village coffee house scene of the ‘60s that started it all. This timely film will enjoy a week-long theatrical release starting May 31 at Cinema Village, in the heart of the Village’s vibrant creative community.
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Watch First SEAHORSE Trailer on Transgender Dad Who Decides to Carry His Own Baby
STILL FROM SEAHORSE. A British trans man, pregnant with his son walks on the beach. Jeanie Finlay’s Seahorse, that follows a gay transgender man who decides to carry his own baby, released the first trailer ahead of its World Premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday, April 27th.
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GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH Chronicling The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus’ Tour to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH. After an emotional performance in Charlotte, chorus members console each other. Gay Chorus Deep South, the powerful new documentary feature chronicling The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus’ life-changing Lavender Pen Tour through five southern states in the fall of 2017, will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Monday, April 29, 2019 followed by a special performance from members of The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.
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OUR TIME MACHINE Docu on Chinese Artist Maleonn to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
OUR TIME MACHINE. Maleonn working on bird sculpture. Courtesy Maleonn Studio. Yang Sun and S. Leo Chiang’s OUR TIME MACHINE is an intimate look at Chinese artist Maleonn(Ma Liang) as he sets out to stage an ambitious performance piece about time and memory when his father, the former artistic director of the Shanghai Chinese Opera Theater, is diagnosed with dementia. Maleonn hopes the work will bring the them together artistically and personally but as time goes on, and his father’s condition deteriorates, he is torn between the original goal to honor his father and the pressure of finding commercial success.
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World Premiere of RUNNER to Open, THE WEIGHT OF WATER to Close 2019 DocLands Documentary Film Festival
Runner directed by Bill Gallagher Now in its third year, the 2019 edition of DocLands Documentary Film Festival kicks off Thursday, May 2 with the World Premiere of RUNNER; director Bill Gallagher and film subject Guor Marial will be in attendance. The four-day festival will showcase 44 films from 14 countries, with 36 filmmakers in attendance. The Closing Night Film will be the Bay Area Premiere of THE WEIGHT OF WATER with Emmy Award winning director Michael Brown and film subject Erik Weihenmayer attending.