Directed by Gregory Bezat, The Art of Eating: The Life of M.F.K. Fisher, the new documentary on California food writer Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher will World Premiere at Mill Valley Film Festival. The documentary traces the remarkable life of iconic California food writer Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher and explores the impact of her ideas on food, its meaning in our lives, and how her writing laid the foundation of modern food writing.
MTV Documentary Films released the official trailer for Last Flight Home, Ondi Timoner’s intimate documentary film about her family’s deeply moving journey to find closure. The film received its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, along with official selections at Telluride Film Festival, London Film Festival; and will open in New York (IFC Center) on October 7 and Los Angeles (Laemmle Monica and Glendale) on October 14 with other cities to follow.
The European Film Academy revealed this year’s feature-length documentary films that have been recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2022. The European Film Awards, honoring the greatest achievements in European cinema, will be presented on 10 December 2022 in Reykjavík.
Following the premiere earlier this year at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, here is the trailer for Kaepernick & America, a documentary exploring the intersection between Colin Kaepernick’s anthem protests and the reactions they spurred in the United States, revealing unique insights into America’s ongoing racial turmoil.
Netflix released the official trailer for Sins of Our Mother, the new true crime documentary series from Skye Borgman, director of Abducted in Plain Sight and Girl in the Picture. In the documentary, when Lori Vallow’s kids vanished, the search for them unearthed a trail of suspicious deaths, a new husband who shared her doomsday views — and murder.
Netflix released the trailer for The Anthrax Attacks, the documentary follows the FBI investigation into the letters containing fatal anthrax spores that spark panic and tragedy in the US in the days after 9/11.
Directed, produced and filmed by Jessica Beshir, Faya Dayi is a hypnotic immersion in the world of Harar, Ethiopia, a place where one commodity – khat, a euphoria-inducing plant – holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life.
Two new documentary films, Kyra Elise Gardner’s debut documentary feature Living with Chucky and Daphné Baiwir’s feature documentary King on Screen have been acquired by Yellow Veil Pictures, the boundary-pushing genre cinema sales and distribution company.
Here is the official trailer for The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, the controversial documentary co-directed by Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of Disney co-founder Roy Disney, that examines the wealth disparity between the rich and the poor in the United States.
Greenwich Entertainment will release Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche, the gripping documentary of the deadliest avalanche in US ski resort history.
Directed by Irish filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson, Nothing Compares, a bold, multi-layered portrait of iconic musician Sinéad O’Connor will be released in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, September 23 and stream on Showtime on Friday, September 30.
