Lizzo announced the new HBO Max Untitled Lizzo Documentary following the three-time GRAMMY® Award-winning superstar singer, songwriter, rapper, flutist and actress Lizzo as she makes history shifting the sound, soul, and spirit of popular music and culture all while balancing the challenges of life, love and stardom.
Netflix released the official trailer for Halftime, the new documentary about superstar Jennifer Lopez, set to World Premiere as the opening night film of the 2022 Tribeca Festival on June 8th. Following the premiere, the documentary directed by Amanda Micheli will be released on Netflix on June 14th.
Directed by Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall, Subject, a thought-provoking documentary about documentaries exploring the POV of their participants, will World Premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Festival, in the festival’s Documentary Competition section.
Lisa Cortés will direct Little Richard: I Am Everything (working title), a new documentary about the life of genre-defying, music innovator Little Richard, currently in production and expected to be completed in fall 2022.
Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream will open Sheffield DocFest 2022 on June 23, 2022. Written, directed, edited and produced by Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture, Cobain: Montage of Heck, Jane) the film which premiered in the Midnight Screenings’ section of the 75th Cannes Film Festival, presents a genre-defying immersion into the art and sounds of David Bowie.
Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel, executive produced by Martin Scorsese and directed by Belgian filmmakers Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier, takes a look at the mythical past and uncertain future of one of the last enclaves of New York bohemia.
My Friend Tommy, a seriously comedic feature documentary by filmmaker Nem Stankovic, is set to World Premiere at the Dances With Films (DWF 25) film festival, taking place June 9-19 in person at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
Emily Branham’s first feature documentary Being Bebe roars into Pride Month on June 7th on Video on Demand and will make its Broadcast Premiere on Fuse in the U.S. and OUTtv in Canada on June 21st.
The new true crime tale, American Pain, directed by Emmy® Award-winner Darren Foster traces the rise and fall of Chris and Jeff George, identical twins who are believed to be America’s most prolific opioid kingpins. In just a few short years of operation, the Georges ran a pill mill empire that attracted clients from around the country, and spawned a prescription drug trafficking network with an estimated street value of more than $500M. The film will premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival in June, and is currently slated for release in 2023.
Directed by Tessa Louise-Salomé, and narrated by Willem Dafoe the feature documentary The Wild One will have its World Premiere in Documentary Competition at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.
The SXSW and Hot Docs breakout documentary We Are The Thousand chronicles the journey taken by 1,000 musicians to create the Biggest Rock Band on Earth. The film gives a first-hand account of the group’s effort to play the iconic Foo Fighters anthem “Learn to Fly”, convince Dave Grohl to play a concert in Cesena, Italy, and the global sensation the event became.
The official trailer debuted this week for BEBA, Rebeca Huntt’s poetic, raw and ruthless self portrait documentary in which the young, NYC-born Afro-Latina stares down historical, societal, and generational trauma. The documentary which premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival opens in theaters on June 24, 2022.