Category: Documentary
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One for the honey, two for the show, weed singer Justin Bieber’s Our World out now
by Screenmancer Staff Get ready for Justin Bieber: Our World, a rocking epic that gives viewers a backstage, onstage and intimate glimpse into the private world of the eponymous global superstar as he prepares for a New Year’s Eve 2020 concert. The full record-breaking event is now on Prime Video. Ending a three-year hiatus, The…
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Before Tennis’ current legends, CITIZEN ASHE recalls humanitarian Arthur Ashe
Magnolia Pictures has boarded CITIZEN ASHE, the Rex Miller/Sam Pollard-directed documentary feature produced by Dogwoof for CNN Films and HBO Max. The film explores the legacy of three-time Grand Slam, barrier-breaking tennis legend and humanitarian, Arthur Ashe, and has generated early awards buzz. CITIZEN ASHE premiered to critical acclaim at Telluride Film Festival last month,…
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BRITNEY VS SPEARS from Netflix rips down the Conservatorship Curtain
by Screenmancer When the Oops, I Did It Again Popstar Britney Spears found herself the subject of CBS News “Timeline: Britney’s Meltdown” her fate from the then-temporary conservatorship on Feb. 1, 2008 was litigated in the media. It became a permanent humiliation for the next 13 years. Now there is a new release to lift…
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NatGeo Docs brings Liz Garbus’ sparkling BECOMING COUSTEAU
WASHINGTON, DC: National Geographic Documentary Films, Story Syndicate and Picturehouse announced today that they will release BECOMING COUSTEAU, the latest film from two-time Oscar® nominee and two-time Emmy® winning director Liz Garbus (“The Farm: Angola, USA,” “What Happened, Miss Simone?”) exclusively in theaters on Friday, Oct. 22. Garbus also produced the film — which will have its world premiere…
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A look-back on OBAMA: IN PURSUIT OF A MORE PERFECT UNION from HBO
by Screenmancer Staff Former President Barack Obama (b. 1961) turns 60 on Aug. 4, and HBO’s three-part documentary, OBAMA: IN PURSUIT OF A MORE PERFECT UNION, will debut Aug. 3, from 9 pm and 10:40 pm ET/PT, with additional parts airing Weds. to mark the birthday, and on Thurs. This look-back chronicles a personal and political…
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THE BODY FIGHTS BACK takes on lockdown weight gain, pow!
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Unless you’ve been part of an anti-dieting rally in London, you may not have known that the pounds (or stones) quietly gained in lockdown for COVID19 reasons are not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is to rank diet as the biggest priority, so says THE BODY FIGHTS BACK,…
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LFG on HBOMax spotlights US Women’s Soccer saga for pay
by Screenmancer Staff LFG is an acronym for sports rallying cry “Let’s F*cking Go,” and Academy Award-winning filmmakers Alex Nix Fine and Sean Fine have shined a spot on the saga behind the US Women’s Soccer team’s fight for equal pay. Three months before the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the players filed a class-action,…
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CBSN takes BRING YOUR OWN BRIGADE from Lucy Walker, Topic Studios
by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: CBSN today announced the acquisition of “Bring Your Own Brigade” from two-time Oscar® nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker and Topic Studios. Walker takes the audience on an illuminating eyewitness journey into the very heart of a raging inferno in “Bring Your Own Brigade,” a character-driven exposé that answers a question…
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AFI DOCS 2021 engages us in many conversations
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent From Anthony Bourdain exploration film ROADRUNNER to MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY, American Film Institute’s AFI DOCS 2021 has brought many issues and discussions to light this year. Now they offer a way for us as audience to engage with filmmakers to join the conversation. See info and link…
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Rita Moreno lived #MeToo before it erupted
by Screenmancer Staff Who doesn’t love Rita Moreno? Over the span of seventy-plus years, Hollywood legend Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing – in the face of relentless racism – to become a celebrated and beloved actor, one of the rare EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) Award Winners in performance history. Saddled with…
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Rogue Chef Bourdain nod ROADRUNNER is main dish at Tribeca
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent If “Parts Unknown” Chef Anthony Bourdain, a seductive world-traveler, hadn’t killed himself three years ago in France’s Alsace region in a 5 star hotel we would have killed him ourself for making us worried he might become a suicide. Such are the charged emotions Mr. Bourdain, who would have…
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BREWMANCE is fun, fermentation, just what the doc ordered
by OG Screenmancer Summer of Masks is coming, and what better way to flip off the CDC than with a cold beer… outdoors, no, indoors at a real-life dive bar full of people? Who said that? BREWMANCE from director Christo Brock is just as out of left field and passionate as that opening salvo. Brock’s…
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AFI DOCS Fest goes hybrid with in-person & virtual tix
WASHINGTON, DC:AFI DOCS, the American Film Institute’s annual documentary celebration will once again offer an opportunity for movie fans to view documentary films online and anticipate welcoming a limited number of festival-goers back to the storied AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, MD for in-person screenings. Passes go on sale today for…
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Questlove’s SUMMER OF SOUL (…OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) in July
Curated by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: Searchlight Pictures and Hulu, together with Disney General Entertainment’s new BIPOC Creator Initiative, just announced the release date for Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s debut film SUMMER OF SOUL (…OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED), winner of both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival.…
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Before COVID-19, opioids killed 130 a day, UPROOTING ADDICTION is proof
Curated by Screenmancer Staff Another deadly epidemic was killing 130 Americans a day prior to this Pandemic. It still is. Meet the Opioid Epidemic in America. But it’s a worldwide crisis. First Run Features presents the Streaming Premiere of the new documentary Uprooting Addiction: Healing from the Ground Up, beginning April 6. Uprooting Addiction is…
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