Showtime released the official trailer for the award-winning documentary Ringside, which premieres on the cable network on Friday, June 12 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT. Filmed over the course of nine years by award-winning director Andre Hörmann, Ringside chronicles the dramatic upbringing of two boxing prodigies and follows the divergent paths they take as they navigate life’s uncertainties on the South Side of Chicago.
Over 140 documentary films will be showcased as part of 2020 Hot Docs Festival Online, which starts May 28. Among the documentaries featured at the festival include Finding Sally, directed by Tamara Mariam Dawit; and the World Premiere of First We Eat directed by Suzanne Crocker; and Meat the Future directed by Liz Marshall.
Kino Lorber released the official trailer for Tommaso that premiered in the Special Screenings section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant), the autobiographically inspired film stars Willem Dafoe as a charismatic artist riddled with self-doubt, alongside cast including Anna Ferrara, Cristina Chiriac, Stella Mastrantonio andAlessandro Prato.
Vision Films will release the heartwarming indie family film Horse Camp: A Love Tail starring Home Improvement’s Richard Karn, Dazed and Confused’s Jason London, Kristin Mellian, Teri Lee, Kristen Ryda, Rachel Sowers, and Jo Ambrosia, Horse Camp: A Love Tail on DVD and VOD from May 19, 2020.
Hola Mexico Film Festival which has been postponed until September 2020, wants to help give viewers a chance to see some of the best films that have come out of Mexico in recent years with the launch of the Hola Mexico Virtual Theater online film series starting May 21.
Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America, a documentary directed by Tom Shepard reveals the untold stories of LGBTQ refugees and asylum-seekers. Unsettled had its World Premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival and is the winner of the Best Documentary Feature Film at 2019 Outfest (playing at 55 festivals worldwide and winning 14 other top awards). Unsettled will lead Doc World’s new season which broadcasts on public media’s WORLD Channel on June 28 and will be available for streaming on WorldChannel.org through July 12.
The documentary Ask No Questions, that premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival 2020 released the new trailer ahead of its release on VOD on June 30th. Directed by Jason Loftus and Eric Pedicelli, Ask No Questions is described as an expose on the dark side of the Chinese government.
The documentary ‘SCANDALOUS: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer’ which world premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival, will make its TV premiere on CNN on Sunday, May 17 at 10:00pm Eastern / 7:00pm Pacific.
Netflix released the trailer for “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich,” a four-part documentary series that premieres Wednesday, May 27 on the streaming service.
Filmed over seven years with extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people, Erika Cohn’s ‘Belly of the Beast‘ exposes modern-day eugenics and reproductive injustice in California prisons. The film will have its World Premiere as the opening night film of the 2020 Human Rights Watch Film Festival New York Digital Edition taking place June 11-20, 2020.
Gravitas Ventures released the official trailer for the Ireland set road-trip drama End of Sentence directed by Elfar Adalsteins, and starring Logan Lerman (Hunters) along with John Hawkes (The Peanut Butter Falcon).
