Kino Lorber will release Chase Joynt’s innovative hybrid film Framing Agnes, which explores the lived experiences of trans people past and present through reenactments of transcripts from a UCLA gender study conducted in the 1960s. The film will make its New York premiere at NewFest on June 5, followed by a theatrical release from Kino Lorber in December.
Founded by industry veterans Jamie Shor and Sky Sitney, DC/DOX a new documentary film festival is coming to the nation’s capital, launching with a special one-night-only on June 15, 2022 at the Landmark Atlantic Plumbing Cinema in Washington, DC. The inaugural festival will take place in June 2023.
Ahead of its world premiere at the American Black Film Festival on June 17th, here is the first look teaser clip from Zodiac Features’ new biographical true crime docu-thriller, Lovely Jackson, the feature film directorial debut from filmmaker Matt Waldeck, (“I See You”).
MUBI debuted the official trailer for We (Nous), the Berlinale award-winning documentary from filmmaker Alice Diop. We (Nous) will open theatrically in NY on June 22 at the Museum of Modern Art, to be followed by a global streaming release on June 29.
National Geographic Documentary Films and Neon released the official trailer for Fire of Love, the award-winning feature documentary from director Sara Dosa.
The award-winning documentary film Iron Family from filmmaker Patrick Longstreth will make its West Coast Premiere at the 2022 Dances With Films (June 9th – 19th, 2022). Featured in the film are Jazmine Faries, Chad Faries, Kate German, Greg Banks and The Faries Family – Holly, Amy along with Faith.
Directed by twelve-time Emmy Award winner Anthony J. Cortese (“A Game of Honor” & “LT: The Life & Times”), the documentary The Only, which tells the life story of legendary U.S. women’s soccer goalkeeper Briana Scurry, will exclusively premiere in the U.S. on Tuesday, July 12 on Paramount+.
Conspiracy. Fraud. Violence. Murder. What starts out virtual can get real all too quickly — and when the web is worldwide, so are the consequences.
Netflix debuted the official trailer for Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, the documentary series examining the rise of Warren Jeffs in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and his shocking criminal case.
“There is a religious Hallelujah, but there are many other ones. When one looks at the world, there’s only one thing to say, and it’s Hallelujah. That’s the way it is.” – Leonard Cohen
The documentary film Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s), directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill, Venus, The Duke), will air on Showtime this Friday, May 27 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
A&E Network will premiere the new two-part documentary event Right to Offend: The Black Comedy Revolution exploring the progression of Black comedy and the comedians who have used pointed humor to expose, challenge and ridicule society’s injustices and to articulate the Black experience in America.