Category: Documentary
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Reid’s Art of Adventure doc goes wide in Canada
Toronto, ON: Game Theory Films announced today that the award-winning feature documentary THE ART OF ADVENTURE from director Alison Reid (The Woman Who Loves Giraffes) will launch in select theatres across Canada beginning April 10th, 2026 in celebration of Earth Month. The acclaimed film will screen for audiences in Vancouver (VIFF Centre), Victoria (The Vic, Cinecenta),…
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Did you see MELANIA, what did you think?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Unless you see a film, you can’t have an opinion, right? So in the Brett Rather-directed documentary MELANIA from Amazon MGM Studios, about 20 days on the way to becoming FLOTUS for a second time, First Lady Melania Trump’s heels can be heard as a lonely echo in the…
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Yes, Jack Black is awesome and 40 Watts from Nowhere
By Chad Aiggia, Screenmancer Staff Yes, Jack Black (“School of Rock, “A Minecraft Movie,“ “Kung Fu Panda,” ”Jumanji”) is a real musician, beyond awesome, and now signs on as executive producer for badass rock and roll documentary “40 Watts From Nowhere.” Since you asked, this tasty project comes from filmmaker and OG Pirate Radio Queen…
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Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising Opens Big at TIFF
Toronto, Ontario: Makwa Creative Inc. has announced that Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising, a documentary about the culture-shifting youth-led land-back occupation, will have its world premiere at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Sept. 2025. Focused on the life of Louis Cameron who led the charge, Ni-Naadamaadiz is written/directed by award-winning Métis filmmaker Shane Belcourt.…
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Josh Brolin rolling dirty for Pay Dirt Supercross
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Remember when JAWS, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this summer, hit screens and changed the way everyone looked at the beach? A few years earlier in 1971, a film by Bruce “Endless Summer” Brown came out that changed the way everyone looked at the dirt. Starring motorcycle buff Steve…
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STUTZ is Jonah Hill’s free gift for your brain from his therapist Phil on Netflix
Phil Stutz nails the point with “you have to give somebody the feeling they can change right now… you’re giving out the signal to the world ‘I need you because I can’t do this by myself. Take action, no matter how frightened you are… this is such a great moment right now.”
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Director Robert Clem on insider Gospel music for doc HOW THEY GOT OVER
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent After watching documentary HOW THEY GOT OVER, directed by Robert Clem, more than the music of the Soul Stirrers, Dixie Hummingbirds, Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, Sensational Nightingales, the Davis Sisters, and other featured artists stays with you. There’s Sister Rosetta Tharpe in all her glory, guitar on the…
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SOUND OF SCARS is a rock doc about alt-metal band Life of Agony’s true story
by Screenmancer Music It’s the story of three lifelong friends who overcame domestic violence, substance abuse and depression to form hardcore alternative-metal group Life of Agony, one of the most influential bands in its genre, led by the very first openly transgender singer. Making its debut today, March 22, THE SOUND OF SCARS is Leigh…
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GAMESTOP: RISE OF THE PLAYERS just went to the Moon via metaverse
NEWS: Super and Decrypt Studios just partnered to produce a live metaverse premiere of SUPER ’S newest documentary GAMESTOP: RISE OF THE PLAYERS. In a tongue-in-cheek riff on the popular meme, yesterday’s screening took viewers “to the moon” to watch the film at a drive-in theater on a rocky landscape orbiting planet Earth. Director Jonah Tulis took…
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When Lincoln met Douglass, or Apple TV+’s 4-part Lincoln’s Dilemma, coming Feb. 18
Apple TV+ just dropped the trailer for the new four-part documentary series “Lincoln’s Dilemma,” a 21st-century examination of a complicated man in the context of his times. With never-before-heard stories about Lincoln, as well as close-up perspectives of him as a man, the docuseries shines a light on a side of Lincoln rarely seen –…
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SFFILM reveals 2021 Documentary Film Fund Winners
San Francisco, CA: Today SFFILM announced the four winners of 2021 SFFILM Documentary Film Fund (DFF) grants totaling $60,000 which support feature-length documentaries in post-production. Now in its tenth year, DFF was created to support non-fiction films that are distinguished by compelling stories, intriguing characters, and an innovative visual approach. The SFFILM Documentary Film Fund…
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JAGGED: Alanis Morissette blew a hole in the crass ceiling of rock’n’roll for women
by Screenmancer Even if you know 90’s powerhouse femme-rock fronter Alanis Morissette is from Canada, even Ottawa, even the name of her small town, you outta know… sorry, you should know how Alanis now at 47 makes sense of it all. “I can’t write all these songs (about empowerment) without, obviously, having been disempowered,” the…
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Lucy Liu is here for Colin K. Gray’s housing crisis “UNZIPPED,” a venice 90291 exposé
LOS ANGELES, CA: Award winning actress Lucy Liu has signed on as executive producer for the insightful and timely documentary “UNZIPPED: An Autopsy of American Inequality,” a searing exposé of the growing affordable housing crisis in America. Written and directed by Colin K. Gray, this intimate and often heartbreaking film focuses on one of the country’s…
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FLEE, a brave new stylistic animated documentary
Review by Robin Menken Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s award-winning animated doc FLEE opens in U.S. theaters on December 3. NEON acquired FLEE at Sundance, and the film is also an official selection at Cannes that recently won the Annecy Festival (France) Cristal award and the Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. It’s the story…
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Lost Chinese clues in FOUND doc about truly unexpected family ties
by Screenmancer Staff One unexpected facet of adoption is the rise of birth-parent searches made possible by DNA-matching breakthroughs, and Netflix’s documentary FOUND, set for Oct. 20, brings this issue into sharp focus. The gist of Director Amanda Lipitz’s exploration of the helix hunt is “after DNA tests reveal them to be cousins, three girls…
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