In 2021, worker’s rights activist Chris Smalls created the Amazon Labor Union to fight for the unfair working conditions for Amazon workers. ‘Union,’ the debut feature documentary by filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing provides a look inside ALU and Smalls’ journey towards better workers rights for Amazon employees.
Ahead of the world premiere at the 81st Venice Film Festival, a new clip was released for Maria, Pablo Larraín’s biopic of American opera singer Maria Callas, starring Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie.
Berlinale Golden Bear for Best Film winner Dahomey by Mati Dop will open the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section of the San Sebastian Festival’s 72nd edition. The section will include the participation of 23 titles from filmmakers such as Leos Carax, Arnaud Desplechin, Elena López Riera, Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias and Jane Schoenbrun competing for the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award.
The restoration of Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases will make its World Premiere as this year’s Archive Special Presentation of the 68th BFI London Film Festival.
The documentary “Mugaritz. Sin pan ni postre” from Paco Plaza opens the Culinary Zinema section at San Sebastian Festival’s 72nd edition. In the documentary, the spectator will become the exceptional witness of the reinvention process taking place at Mugaritz, the restaurant run by Andoni Luis Aduriz, one of the most creative and influential chefs in the international scene.
Art Dealers is a music documentary that takes a backstage look at rock and roll artist Low Cut Connie, aka Adan Weiner as he and his band holds a three-night concert production of their newest album ‘Art Dealers’.
Returning after a successful run directing the award-winning mini series ‘Normal People’, director Hettie Macdonald comes with ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a feature film, telling the sweet and inspiring journey of an elderly man who sets off on a journey to meet a dying old friend. The film is based on the 2012’s Rachel Joyce novel of the same name.
From filmmakers Ellen Frankenstein (Tracing Roots, Eating Alaska) and Atman Mehta, comes Cruise Boom, a documentary telling the story of a small Alaskan town as they face a new challenge of globalization as the cruise tourism industry rebounds after the COVID lockdown. The documentary film focuses on the effects of the changes from the eyes of the town locals.
A struggling actor meets a career-driven woman facing her mortality in She Taught Love, a new romance drama film from filmmaker Nate Edwards.
For one week on 1972, legendary musician John Lennon and partner Yoko Ono took over the co-hosting duties for the Mike Douglas Show, leading into a week of some of the most unforgettable moments in daytime television history. Kino Lorber unveiled the official trailer for a documentary looking back at this eventful week of television history, ‘Daytime Revolution’.
Founded in 1974, Studio One was an iconic, groundbreaking LGBT disco nightclub in West Hollywood, hosting performers such as Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Paul Newman throughout its run. ‘Studio One Forever’ is a documentary telling the untold stories of the legendary club, immortalizing its existence and importance in the LGBTQ+ rights movement in America.
Actress Danielle Deadwyler (Till) will receive the MVFF Award for acting at the 47th Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF). The festival will host a Spotlight presentation of Netflix’s The Piano Lesson, starring Deadwyler along with Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Michael Potts, Erykah Badu,.