Greenwich Entertainment debuted the official trailer for Accepted, the feature documentary that looks at Ivy League college admissions, putting under the spotlight – TM Landry, a controversial school in Louisiana that sends its graduates to elite universities.
Directed by Oscar-nominees Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing, and executive produced by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow, the documentary film Endangered tells the story of journalists at the forefront of a dangerous culture war over free speech. The documentary debuts Tuesday, June 28 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO.
Directed by Sean Cisterna, The Long Rider, the award-winning western documentary on Filipe Masetti Leite’s journey from Canada to Brazil entirely on horseback, will screen at the Dances With Films film festival in L.A on June 16.
Following the award-winning premiere at Cleveland International Film Festival, the documentary From The Hood To The Holler directed by Pat McGee will make its New York premiere at the 2022 Brooklyn Film Festival. From The Hood To The Holler won 5 awards including Audience Choice at 2022 Cleveland International Film Festival.
Donna, a documentary film by award-winning Welsh filmmaker, Jay Bedwani will premiere at Frameline46 San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival at the Castro Theater on June 25 at the height of San Francisco’s Pride Week. The film paints an intimate and candid portrait of Bay Area trans activist, artist, performer and personality, Donna Personna, who was 60 when she made her drag debut at the iconic Aunt Charlie’s.
Netflix debuted the official trailer for Civil, a documentary on a year in the life civil rights attorney Ben Crump as he takes on the civil cases for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Andre Hill.
HBO released the official trailer for Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes, the documentary that takes a deep-dive behind the 1986 disaster of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker James Jones (Mosul), Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes debuts Wednesday, June 22 (9:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO.
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.