JULIA, from Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West (RBG), will premiere for television on CNN on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30 at 8:00pm and 10:00pm Eastern (5:00pm and 7:00pm Pacific), with limited commercial interruption. The documentary celebrates the life and career of chef, cookbook author, and television and cultural pioneer, Julia Child.
The Story Won’t Die, from Award-winning filmmaker David Henry Gerson, is an inspiring, timely look at a young generation of Syrian artists who use their work to protest and process what is currently the world’s largest and longest ongoing displacement of people since World War II.
Magnolia Pictures debuted the official for Bitterbrush, the observational documentary on two young women in the remote and rugged mountains of the American West, contemplating the future as they work alone herding cattle.
Directed by Tia Lessin (HBO’s “Trouble the Water”) and Emma Pildes (HBO’s “Jane Fonda in Five Acts”), the timely documentary The Janes takes a look at an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions in the 1970s. The Janes celebrated its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and debuts Wednesday, June 8 (9:00-10:45 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Emmett Adler, the documentary End of the Line is described as a character-driven political drama about the New York City subway crisis.
Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan offers a stunning cinematic view of Mongolia’s past and present.
Directed by Oscar®-nominated filmmaker David Petersen and counting Sam Pollard as one of its executive producers and Misty Copeland as its principal advisor, LIFT shines a spotlight on the invisible story of homelessness in America through the eyes of a group of young home-insecure ballet dancers in New York City and the mentor who inspires them.
Directed by Tommy Walker and Ross Hockrow, the documentary Kaepernick & America explores the intersection between Colin Kaepernick’s anthem protests and the reactions they spurred in the United States.
The animated documentary “Eternal Spring (長春)” by filmmaker Jason Loftus (“Ask No Questions”) is a multiple award winner at this year’s 2022 Hot Docs, winning Hot Docs Audience Award for best film and the Rogers Audience Award for best Canadian film.
The HBO two-part documentary, George Carlin’s American Dream, chronicles the life and work of legendary comedian George Carlin.
EarthX Film Festival 2022, set to take place May 12-15 in the Dallas Arts District, will close out the Festival on Sunday, May 15 with Patagonia’s The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez from award-winning documentary filmmaker Stacy Peralta.
Apple announced a new untitled feature film about the life of beloved actor and advocate Michael J. Fox (“Back to the Future” franchise, “Spin City,” “Family Ties,” “Casualties of War,” “American President”), from Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth,” “Waiting for Superman,” “He Named Me Malala”). The film is currently in production in New York, Los Angeles and Vancouver.