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.
From filmmaker Zach Carver (TV series “Textual Intercourse”), the adventure documentary The Race to Alaska is a visceral film, embodying the triumph over adversity of a real-life Amazing Race test of endurance – picture the Iditarod on a boat, no motors, no support and 750 miles of tumultuous waters.
Set in Palawan, an archipelagic province of the Philippines, the new documentary Delikado follows three environmental crusaders, as they try to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines’ “last ecological frontier.”
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Directed by Nils Gaup, the feature documentary Images of a Nordic Drama will have its International Premiere at Hot Docs 2022.
Written and directed by Saim Sadiq, Joyland will be the first Pakistani feature ever to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Joyland will compete in the Official Selection’s Un Certain Regard and will also vie for the Caméra d’Or.
Menudo: Forever Young, the four-part documentary from filmmakers Angel Manuel Soto (Max Original “Charm City Kings”) and Kristofer Ríos (“Havana Skate Days”), will have its world premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Festival on June 11 in New York.
Apple TV+ debuted the official trailer for Prehistoric Planet, the natural history documentary series narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
The documentary Castro’s Spies tells the story of Cuban spies being sent undercover to America in the ‘90s. Directed by Ollie Aslin and Gary Lennon, the film will be released theatrically and be available on digital May 13 from Gravitas Ventures.
IFC Films will release the SXSW all-star comedy Spin Me Round, directed by Jeff Baena (The Little Hours), co-written with lead Alison Brie, in theaters, on VOD and stream exclusively on AMC+ in Summer 2022.
Apple TV+ released the trailer for The Big Conn, the new four-part documentary series that tells the unbelievable true story of larger-than-life attorney, Eric C. Conn, who defrauded the government and taxpayers over half a billion dollars in the largest Social Security fraud case in United States history.
Directed by Nausheen Dadabhoy, the documentary An Act of Worship, will have its World Premiere in the Documentary Competition at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.