With the perspective and expertise of Stacey Abrams, the former Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, the documentary offers an insider’s look into laws and barriers to voting that most people don’t even know are threats to their basic rights as citizens of the United States.
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Champions of early childhood education examine the latest science on brain development and explore the power of investing in high-quality early childhood education. The first feature-length documentary from director Willa Kammerer.
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Widely considered the premier American showcase for short films, this year’s program features six fiction, documentary and animation shorts from filmmakers around the world, including the winner of the Grand Jury Prize, So What If The Goats Die, from director and screenwriter Sofia Alaoui.
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Shannon Hoon, lead singer of the rock band Blind Melon, filmed himself from 1990-95 with a Hi8 video camera, recording up until a few hours before his sudden death at the age of 28. His camera was a diary and his closest confidant. In the hundreds of hours of footage, Hoon meticulously documented his life – his family, his creative process, his television, his band’s rise to fame and his struggle with addiction. He filmed his daughter’s birth, and archived the politics and culture of the 90’s, an era right before the internet changed the world. Created with his own footage, voice and music, this intimate autobiography is a prescient exploration of experience and memory in the age of video. It is also Shannon Hoon’s last work, completed 23 years after his death.
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Award-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple uses insightful interviews to tell the true story of the disastrous mission to rescue hostages held in the U.S. Embassy during the 1979 Iranian revolution. An Official Selection of the Toronto International Film Festival and Doc NYC.
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A new documentary featuring an intimate, never-before-seen interview by journalist Silvia Bizio with cult hero and poet, Charles Bukowski, in his San Pedro home. An Official Selection of Slamdance Film Festival after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
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Patrick Lovell’s investigation chronicles 40 years of Wall Street corruption leading to the 2008 financial crisis.
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Winner of the 2020 Sundance U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking. The latest from the filmmakers of Weiner (2016) documents the journey of a team of ACLU lawyers battling in court to protect the rights of marginalized communities.
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An environmental documentary chronicling one community’s resilience in the aftermath of what is currently the most lethal and destructive fire in California history. An official selection of Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and AFI Docs.
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From director Scott Crawford and CREEM Magazine veteran Jaan Uhelszki, the wild story of “America’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll Magazine” captures the energy and spirit of the boundary-smashing music publication in post-riot Detroit. An Official Selection of SXSW and Cleveland International Film Festival.
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