ESPN Films has started production on the new multi-part documentary on Colin Kaepernick, with Spike Lee on board to direct.
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MORE THAN ROBOTS Trailer. Disney+ Documentary on Famous Robotics Competition Premieres at SXSW
More Than Robots directed by Gillian Jacobs (Credit: ALEX NATAF) Disney+ unveiled the official trailer for Gillian Jacobs-directed documentary film More Than Robots, set to premiere at the SXSW (South by Southwest) Film Festival on March 14, 2022. On Friday, March 18, the documentary will stream exclusively on Disney+.
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THE OTHER ME Trailer. – Jim Sturgess, Rhona Mitra Star in Giga Agladze’s Thriller
Giga Agladze’s thriller “The Other Me” starring Jim Sturgess Here is the official trailer for Giga Agladze’s thriller The Other Me starring Jim Sturgess, Rhona Mitra, Orla Brady Antonia Campbhell-Hughes, and Andreja Pejic. The film was written and directed by Giga Agladze and executive produced by David Lynch. The Other Me opens in select theaters and on digital on February 4, 2022 by Gravitas Ventures.
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Watch Trailer for Documentary ‘Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting’
Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting. (screenshot via Youtube) The timely documentary Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting co-directed by Aviva Kempner and Ben West (Cheyenne) will make its world premiere at California’s American Indian & Indigenous Film Festival. The festival highlights the best of current films from American Indian filmmakers, producers, directors, and actors working through Indian Country. Imagining the Indian will close out the Festival on Sunday, April 3, 2022 with a screening, Q&A, and post-screening reception.
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ICAHN: THE RESTLESS BILLIONAIRE, Documentary on Billionaire Financier Carl Icahn Debuts on HBO
Icahn: The Restless Billionaire (HBO) HBO documentary Icahn: The Restless Billionaire directed by Bruce David Klein, explores the fascinating contradictions at the heart of the famed financier, Carl Icahn. Amassing close to $20 billion dollars over the last half century and at the forefront of some of the most legendary business deals of our times, Icahn, often referred to as the “Lone Wolf of Wall Street,” is a feared negotiator and master strategist in the art of corporate takeovers and investments. A polarizing figure described as both an activist investor and a ruthless corporate raider, Icahn rose from modest beginnings in Queens to become one of the richest men in the world, embodying the American Dream, whose impact on companies, products, CEOs, stock markets, and capitalism itself is vast. Yet, he openly criticizes corporate excess and the huge wealth inequality gap. In his own words and with commentary from family members, journalists, and fellow titans of industry, Icahn: The Restless Billionaire probes Icahn’s humble roots, his business acumen, and his obsessive drive to stay atop America’s corporate hierarchy.
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HUDA’S SALON Trailer. Hany Abu-Assad’s Palestinian Thriller Explores Women Struggling to Cope Under Occupation
Huda’s Salon directed by Hany Abu-Assad IFC Films released the official trailer for Huda’s Salon, Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad’s political thriller which premiered at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival. The film starring Maisa Abd Elhadi, Manal Awad and Ali Suliman explores a dangerous clash between two women struggling to cope with life under occupation.
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Focus Features to Release BRIAN AND CHARLES, Jim Archer’s Sundance Breakout Film
Brian and Charles by Jim Archer. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Focus Features acquired Brian and Charles, the Sundance breakout film directed by Jim Archer (who also directed the original short film). It stars David Earl, Chris Hayward, Louise Brealey, James Michie and Nina Sosanya. This marks Archer’s feature directorial debut after cutting his teeth shooting comedy sketches with friends before writing and directing several short films culminating in winning gold at the Young Director Awards in Cannes for the short film version of Brian and Charles.
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Sinead O’Connor Sundance Documentary NOTHING COMPARES Acquired by Showtime
Sinéad O’Connor appears in Nothing Compares by Kathryn Ferguson. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Andrew Catlin. Showtime acquired Nothing Compares directed by Kathryn Ferguson (Taking the Waters, Space to Be), the documentary charting Sinéad O’Connor’s phenomenal rise to worldwide fame and examines how she used her voice at the height of her stardom before her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on Sinéad’s prophetic words and deeds from 1987 to 1993, the film presents an authored, richly cinematic portrait of this fearless trailblazer through a contemporary feminist lens.
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Sundance Winner ‘892’ Starring John Boyega Acquired by Bleecker Street for Late Summer Release
John Boyega in 892 by Abi Damaris Corbin. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Chris Witt. Following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, Bleecker Street acquired Abi Damaris Corbin’s (The Suitcase) debut feature 892 starring John Boyega (Star Wars, Attack the Block), the late Michael Kenneth Williams in his final film role (“The Wire”, 12 Years a Slave), Nicole Beharie (Shame, 42), Connie Britton (Promising Young Woman, “Friday Night Lights”), Olivia Washington (Lee Daniels’ The Butler, The Little Things), Selenis Leyva (Spider-Man: Homecoming, “Orange Is the New Black”), London Covington (Hunters) and Jeffrey Donovan (“Burn Notice”, Changeling).
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS: IN FIVE SPEECHES Documentary Debuts on HBO
Frederick Douglass [Mathew B. Brady (MET)] Inspired by David Blight’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” and executive produced by scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the HBO documentary Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches brings to life the words of our country’s most famous anti-slavery activist.
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MARVELOUS AND THE BLACK HOLE Trailer. Rhea Perlman and Miya Cech Star in Sundance Coming-of-age Comedy
Marvelous And The Black Hole Here is the official trailer for Marvelous and the Black Hole, the coming-of-age comedy starring Rhea Perlman and Miya Cech, that premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Also starring in the film are Leonard Nam, Paulina Lulu, Kannon Omachi, Jae Suh Park and Jonathan Salvin.
