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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Tribeca Film Festival Postpones 2020 Edition
After Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York announced restrictions on public gatherings of more than 500 people in a new effort to fight the coronavirus outbreak of the 19th Tribeca Film Festival scheduled for April 15-26, has been postponed until further notice.
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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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Coronavirus Updates: SOMA, TCM CLASSIC Film Festivals Cancelled, Miami Cancels Public Screening, Montclair, Oxford, New Directors/New Films Postponed
Maine Jewish Film Festival, Miami Film Festival, Montclair Film Festival, New Directors/New Films Film Festival, Oxford Film Festival, TCM Classic Film Festival
Miami Film Festival The day after President Donald Trump delivered a speech from the Oval Office, and actor Tom Hanks along with his Rita Wilson revealed that they have been diagnosed with coronavirus the seriousness of the global outbreak is continuing to cause the film industry to cancel many upcoming events.
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Cleveland and Full Frame Documentary Film Festivals Cancelled, Jeonju Postponed, Due to Coronavirus
Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF), Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Jeonju International Film Festival, Panama International Film Festival, Watsonville Film Festival
The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a pandemic and more film festivals including Cleveland and Full Frame Documentary film festivals have decided to postpone or outright cancel this year’s edition.
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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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Prague, Beijing, Malaga, Inwood Film Festivals Canceled Over Coronavirus Fears
Festival Cine Malaga Beijing International Film Festival, Prague International Film Festival, Inwood Film Festival join an ever growing list of film festivals being canceled or rescheduled in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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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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AFI Postpones Julie Andrews Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute Due to Coronavirus
Julie Andrews In light of the increasing concerns surrounding the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, AFI announced it is postponing the AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute in celebration of Julie Andrews originally scheduled for April 25. The event is now expected to take place in early summer.