Whether you like tales of social justice, natural history, close-ups of heroes who were ahead of their time, true crime, or something that’s #strangerthanfiction – Netflix released the lineup of documentary films coming to the streaming network.
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19 New Documentaries Coming to Netflix – CRIP CAMP, CIRCUS OF BOOKS
CIRCUS OF BOOKS directed by Rachel Mason
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Watch Trailer for CRIP CAMP, Sundance Audience Winning Documentary on Disability Civil Rights
Crip Camp by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht, an official selection of the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Steve Honigsbaum Netflix released the first official trailer for the documentary Crip Camp, which won the Audience Award for U.S. Documentary at this year’s 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
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Watch Powerful Trailer for THE VOTE, PBS Documentary on Women’s Right to Vote Crusade
The Vote directed by Michelle Ferrari PBS released the trailer for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE The Vote, a new four-hour, two-part documentary series, that tells the dramatic story of the epic — and surprisingly unfamiliar — crusade waged by American women for the right to vote. Focusing primarily on the movement’s militant and momentous final decade, the film charts American women’s determined march to the ballot box, and illuminates the myriad social, political and cultural obstacles that stood in their path.
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SXSW Drama SOUTH MOUNTAIN Starring Talia Balsam Sets Spring Release Date
Porch Girls – Talia Balsam, Nain Gonzalez Norvind, Violet Rea, Andrus Nichols in South Mountain Breaking Glass Pictures will release the powerful SXSW drama South Mountain in theaters in the Spring, opening in New York at Cinema Village on April 3.
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Mental Health Documentary THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY Narrated by Rob Reiner, Sets PBS Debut Date
The Definition of Insanity directed by Gabriel London The new documentary, The Definition of Insanity, explores the groundbreaking work of The Miami-Dade Criminal Mental Health Project (CMHP), an approach being heralded as a model for helping to solve the mental health crisis in America. A people-powered community-wide safety net, CMHP works through the court system to steer people with mental illness — as their legal cases hang in the balance — on a path from incarceration to recovery. Shocked by how people with mental illness were treated in Miami-Dade’s jails, Judge Steven Leifman works with a team of dedicated public servants, as well as former adversaries in the criminal justice system, to help people with mental illness navigate from lives of tragedy to possibility. Building on the story of Miami’s once-failed mental health system — a familiar national narrative of over-incarceration and brutal mistreatment — The Definition of Insanity instead reveals a humane criminal justice approach to mental illness that is orchestrated from the court outwards into the community. Produced and directed by Gabriel London, written and produced by Charlie Sadoff, and narrated by Rob Reiner, The Definition of Insanity premieres on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET
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International Film Organizations Call for Freedom of Iranian Director Mohammad Rasoulof
Mohammad Rasoulof Major international film industry organizations today released statements expressing concern about “the imminent incarceration” of Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof who recently won the Golden Bear at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival for his latest film, There Is No Evil.
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Swedish Horror Film KOKO-DI KOKO-DA Sets Spring Release Date
Leif Edlund in Johannes Nyholm’s KOKO-DI KOKO-DA (Credit: Dark Star Pictures) Koko-di Koko-da, the dark psychological horror film from Swedish director Johannes Nyholm (The Giant) which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival finally has a Spring US release date.
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Watch Trailer for THE INFILTRATORS, Docu Thriller on For-Profit Prisons
Maynor Alvarado and Manuel Uriza appear in The Infiltrators by Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera. Oscilloscope released the new trailer for The Infiltrators, the docu-thriller from directors Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra that tells the true story of young immigrants who are detained by Border Patrol and thrown into a shadowy for-profit detention center- on purpose.
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Pornhub to Release SHAKEDOWN, First Non-Adult Themed Documentary on Lesbian Strip Club
Shakedown, the critically-acclaimed documentary art film by filmmaker and vanguard artist Leilah Weinraub Pornhub known primarily for adult entertainment will debut its first non-adult themed content, Shakedown, the critically-acclaimed documentary art film by filmmaker and vanguard artist Leilah Weinraub. The film will screen for the month of March on the streaming network.
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Tribeca Film Festival Announces 2020 Short Films Lineup Featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, Dennis Quaid
Oscar Meza and Vania Accinelli star in The Catch (El Salto), directed by Thais Drassinower. Photographer: Mario Bassino The 19th annual Tribeca Film Festival announced its 2020 Shorts Program lineup of 64 diverse and captivating short films including DreamWorks Animation’s new animated short, To Gerard. For the fourth consecutive year, 40 percent of the selections are directed by female filmmakers. Queen Collective by Procter & Gamble in partnership with Queen Latifah, Flavor Unit Entertainment and Tribeca Studios is back, a program dedicated to supporting gender and racial equality behind the camera.The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival takes place April 15 – April 26.
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Cinema Guild will Release Hong Sangsoo’s THE WOMAN WHO RAN in U.S.
The Woman who Ran directed by Hong Sangsoo Hong Sangsoo’s The Woman who Ran which made its world premiere last week in competition at the 70th Berlinale, where it won the Silver Bear for Best Director has been acquired by Cinema Guild for release in the U.S. It will mark the seventh film directed by Hong that Cinema Guild has released.
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