Netflix debuted the official trailer for Descendant, filmmaker Margaret Brown documents the story of the Clotilda – the last known ship to smuggle stolen Africans to America. Descendant premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival where the film won a special jury prize winner.
Peacock unveiled the official trailer for I Love You, You Hate Me, a documentary series chronicling the rise and fall of Barney the Dinosaur’s furious backlash — and what it says about the human need to hate. From Barney-bashing to frat parties to homicidal video games, something in American society broke into a million pieces, and it’s never been put together again… or is this just who we were all along?
Kino Lorber debuted the official trailer Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, a new documentary that explores the sexual politics of cinematic shot design. The documentary is based on director Nina Menkes’ cinematic presentation, ‘Sex and Power, the Visual Language of Cinema’, and uses film clips by A-list directors from 1896 through to the present, to show how sexist shot design contributes to a pervasive environment of sexual harassment and assault, as well as employment discrimination against women, especially in the film industry.
Showtime released the official trailer for The Lincoln Project, a five-part docuseries following the members of the Lincoln Project over the course of the 2020 election and its aftermath.
The 64th Nordic Film Days Lübeck festival will open with the German premiere of the Danish jazz documentary Music for Black Pigeons by Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed.
Spector is a four-part documentary series about enigmatic, legendary music producer Phil Spector and what happened on the fateful night of February 3, 2003 when actress Lana Clarkson was shot dead in his mansion.
IFC Films revealed the official trailer for Bad Axe, the award-winning documentary directed by David Siev. The film is a real-time portrait of 2020 and unfolds as an Asian/Mexican-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Cambodian Killing Fields.
Chris Smith’s (Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, American Movie) documentary “Sr.”, a tribute to maverick filmmaker Robert Downey Sr., will be released on Netflix later this year.
After two years, Netflix revealed the official trailer for Into the Deep, the Danish true crime documentary that premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival but the release was postponed when some participants stated that they had not given their consent to participate in the film.
HBO released the official trailer for The Vow, Part Two, the documentary series now follows the legal journey of Keith Raniere and NXIVM co-founder Nancy Salzman.
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Academy Award-winning director of Summer of Soul will executive produce Dilla Time, a new documentary about the brief life and pervasive and largely uncredited influence of music producer, J Dilla.
Gravitas Ventures released the official trailer for The Pez Outlaw, the documentary on Steve Glew, who in the 1990s smuggled rare Pez dispensers from Eastern Europe and sold them for thousands, drawing the ire of rival collectors.