After ten days of virtual and in-person screenings at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, the 2021 DocLands Documentary Film Festival ended with the awards ceremony. The 2021 DocLands Audience Favorite Award went to Jennifer Abbott for her deeply intimate and thought-provoking feature-length documentary The Magnitude of All Things.
The international premiere of the film “Polański, Horowitz. Hometown” by Mateusz Kudła and Anna Kokoszka-Romer will open the 61st Krakow Film Festival on May 30th. The film featuring director Roman Polański and his friend, world-famous photographer Ryszard Horowitz is described as a colorful story about childhoods, friendship, the common Jewish fate of the protagonists and about Krakow. Polański, Horowitz. Hometown will be presented in the Polish competition of this year’s Festival.
discovery+ will premiere the documentary No Responders Left Behind that follows 22-time Primetime Emmy award-winner and former host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, first responder and 9/11 social activist, John Feal and FDNY hero, Ray Pfeifer, in their fight to get health benefits and compensation for 9/11 first responders. The film directed by Rob Lindsay, will stream on discovery+ globally this September.
The World to Come by Norwegian filmmaker and actress Mona Fastvold opens the 50th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Wednesday June 2. The European premiere of Japanese animation Poupelle of Chimney Town by director Hirota Yusuke closes the festival on Sunday June 6.
Hulu released the official trailer for Changing The Game, Emmy award-winning filmmaker Michael Barnett’s timely sports documentary focusing on transgender inclusion in sports. The documentary will be available on Hulu on Tuesday, June 1, 2021.
Here is the official trailer for the indie drama film Grace and Grit, starring Mena Suvari and Stuart Townsend. Written and directed by Sebastian Siegel, the film is based on the book of the same name by psychologist Ken Wilber.
All six episodes of the new documentary series “McCartney 3,2,1” featuring intimate and revealing examinations of musical history from two living legends, Paul McCartney and super producer Rick Rubi premieres Friday, July 16, on Hulu.
The Tribeca Festival will bring the Festival directly to neighborhoods around New York City with its new Borough to Borough screening series.
Sheffield DocFest announced their 2021 full program including the World Premiere of Uprising, by Steve McQueen and James Rogan. Uprising is a vivid and visceral three-part series which examines three events from 1981: in January, the New Cross Fire which killed 13 black teenagers; in March, Black People’s Action Day, which saw more than 20,000 people join the first organized mass protest by black British people; and then the Brixton riots in April.
Apple TV+ debuted the official trailer for The Me You Can’t See, the documentary from Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, exploring mental health and emotional well-being. The Me You Can’t See premieres Friday, May 21 on Apple TV+.
Focus Features will release Robert Eggers’ Viking drama The Northman in theaters on Friday, April 8, 2022. Universal Pictures International will release the film internationally on the same date.
The independent film Under the Lantern Lit Sky directed by Michelle Bossy will premiere at the 23rd Brooklyn Film Festival on June 12 at Windmill Studios in Brooklyn. Billed as written in the tradition of Tennessee Williams, the period piece drama explores female trauma, sisterhood, LGBTQ+ issues and the sacrifices we make for those we love.