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Film Pulse: Expertly crafted by Hedegaard, who himself is one of the talented friends in the group, Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest is a thoughtful, energetic, and ultimately triumphant documentary about the power of friendship. MORE +
Metro UK: Carole expressed her support for documentary The Conservation Game, which explores the exotic animal trade through an investigation conducted by a retired police officer. MORE +
Variety: In lieu of watching “Tiger King 2,” Baskin recommended watching the “The Conservation Game,” and supporting the Big Cat Rescue bill. MORE +
BuzzFeed: Carole Baskin Slammed "Tiger King 2" Following The Show's Announcement MORE +
Deadline: Carole Baskin “If people want to know the actual truth behind the big cat crisis in the U.S. and how it all started, they should be demanding to see The Conservation Game film by Michael Webber. His film answers the important questions that Tiger King glossed over.” MORE +
Just Jared: Carole Baskin "The Conservation Game answers the important questions that Tiger King glossed over.” MORE +
Testset: Cannon Arms and the Arcade Quest will have its US Premiere at Fantastic Fest MORE +
The Hollywood Reporter: Carole Baskin "If people really want to know how the horrific and unsafe conditions conditions tigers endure in the U.S. was started, they should be demanding to see The Conservation Game film by Michael Webber." MORE +
Hot Springs Doc Fest: Last Meal will screen at HSDFF MORE +
Business Doc Europe: Cannon Arm produced by Good Company Pictures with support from New Danish Screen, is screening in the Nordic Panorama this week before showing at the London Film Festival next month. MORE +
Chagrin Valley Today: The Conservation Game will make it's Ohio premiere at the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival MORE +
Concrete Playground: Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest will screen at the 2021 Sydney Underground Film Festival MORE +
Nordisk Film: Also competing for the €11,000 top prize is the Danish opening film Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest, which portrays the importance of a strong social community to fulfil your dreams. MORE +
Independent Ireland: Father of the cyborgs: The Irish doctor who is merging the human brain with computers – starting with his own MORE +
Triton Mag: Between her law practice, speaking appearances, an upcoming research fellowship at Harvard University and her pandemic-born podcast, Tiger Talk, Nasser is also a co-executive producer of The Conservation Game, a forthcoming film that has inklings of an exposé, uncovering questionable operations behind several high-profile conservation entities. MORE +
NBC4: Documentary maker exposing Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, now praises changes made MORE +
NY Times: In the history of American orchestras, only one woman has risen to lead a top-tier ensemble: Marin Alsop, whose tenure as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra ended last month. MORE +
The Columbus Underground: The hidden-camera footage rivals both Blackfish and The Cove for sheer bullseye effectiveness. It’s gut-wrenching, heartbreaking and downright infuriating, with Webber employing well-placed edits that call out apparent lies with speed and precision. MORE +
The Columbus Dispatch: The Conservation Game” does what the best documentaries should: it highlights an important topic and starts conversations. MORE +
Sydney Morning Herald: The Conservation Game available on STAN MORE +
Ace Showbiz: Carole Baskin Brands 'The Conservation Game' As Documentary She Thought 'Tiger King' Would Be MORE +
Verde News: Sedona Film Fest Presents The Conservation Game’ Premiere Sept. 11-15 MORE +
Screen Daily: Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest will have its UK premiere at BFI Film Festival MORE +
Alliance of Women Film Journalists: The Conservation Game is heartbreaking but riveting, thanks to Michael Webber’s superb direction that keeps you on the edge of your seat as the heroic animal advocates persist despite death threats from the villains they’re chasing. MORE +
Mystery Wire: Exotic animal conservation game exposed in new documentary MORE +
IDA: While there are a few docs about the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting itself, Us Kids, which is an IDA fiscally sponsored film, chooses to put the main focus on Parkland students who wouldn’t let the world look away from the horrific realities of gun violence in America. MORE +
Access Wire: Marin Alsop is the first woman to be appointed as music director of a major symphony orchestra. The Conductor, set to a breathtaking soundtrack of her performances and unseen archival footage, tells her story from first setting her sights as a young girl on becoming a conductor to teaching the next wave of conductors. MORE +
2 Oceans Vibe: The Last Laugh Goes To Carole Baskin MORE +
Sedona Biz: SEDONA FILM FEST PRESENTS ‘THE CONSERVATION GAME’ PREMIERE SEPT. 11-15 MORE +
Man of Many: The Conservation Game is a new documentary featuring Carole and Howard Baskin that explores the largely unregulated U.S. trade in exotic animals, especially big cats like lions, tigers, and leopards and their connection to celebrity conservationists. MORE +
Entertainment Weekly: Carole Baskin sells Joe Exotic's former zoo, bans new owners from using it for 'anything related to Tiger King' MORE +
Deadline: In other openings, documentary The Conservation Game arrives in LA today (expanding thereafter) with a screening and live appearance by Carole Baskin of Big Cat Rescue. MORE +
Las Vegas Weekly: Tiger King omits what the new documentary The Conservation Game showcases: the corruption of conservationism in the big cat industry. MORE +
Box Office Pro: The Conservation Game coming soon to Kinema MORE +
Docs Ireland: Burke’s film makes the highly complicated science, and the people who are still making further advances, accessible to non-medical humans like me. MORE +
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WOSU: Today on All Sides with Ann Fisher, we talk about the documentary, “The Conservation Game,” with the film’s director and a Columbus Zoo official MORE +
10 TV: The Conservation Game Ohio premier is planned for the Gateway Film Center in Columbus on Sept. 10 MORE +
Detroit Free Press: ‘Flint: Who Can You Trust?’ will premiere at Freep Film Festival MORE +
Cincinnati Enquirer: The Conservation Game Ohio premiere is planned for the Gateway Film Center in Columbus on Sept. 10. MORE +
Columbus Dispatch: Here's how to watch The Conservation Game MORE +
Columbus Dispatch: Conservation Game documentary ties Columbus Zoo, Hanna to unchecked big cat trade MORE +
BCC: Marin Alsop on BBC Radio MORE +
The Columbus Dispatch: 'The Conservation Game' big cat documentary features Jack Hanna in its first trailer MORE +
First Showing: "The battle's on." Cargo Films has released an official trailer for a documentary called The Conservation Game, about Big Cat trade and the problems with it. MORE +
Variety: ‘The Conservation Game’: Trailer for Endangered Big Cats Documentary Revealed (EXCLUSIVE) MORE +
Chagrin Valley Today: The Conservation Game will screen at the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival MORE +
Dread Central: Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest will screen at Fantastic Fest 2021 MORE +
Collider: Fantastic Fest 2021 First Wave Includes Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest MORE +
Filmwax Radio: Annie Kaempfer & Rodney Stotts (THE FALCONER) MORE +
abc Chicago: Marin Alsop, the first woman to ever direct a major American orchestra, joins the CSO after 14 years as music director and conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. MORE +
Worth: The Conductor details Alsop’s own journey to the podium and celebrates the legacy of other women on whose shoulders she firmly stands, but whose names are not yet widely known. MORE +
San Francisco Chronicle: “The Conductor,” about trailblazing symphony conductor Marin Alsop MORE +
The Hill: The award-winning documentary film, “The Conservation Game,” for which our work served as subjects, showcases how people have been able to purchase tigers and other big cats, as well as other exotic animals, at auctions. MORE +
The Telegraphic: She is very dynamic but at the same time very sensitive, I think her secret is the ability to communicate with the orchestra and with the audiences as well... And the product is very good, among the best music-making you are likely to hear. MORE +
Royal Philharmonic Society: Marin Alsop is an inspiring and distinguished artist who is also a role model for the 21st century musician MORE +
Boston Globe: Few conductors of her generation have made more recordings, and more highly acclaimed ones, than she. MORE +
Al Jazeera: What’s behind the US trade in exotic animals? | The Bottom Line MORE +
Bay Area Reporter: The centerpiece documentary, The Conductor, is a riveting dynamic portrait of Marin Alsop, the first woman to conduct a major American classical orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra MORE +
Framework: Must see. This short film should be screened through every internet portal, at every bus stop, on every subway line, and in every government office, school, university and bar. It explains all you need to know about water at an elementary level. MORE +
Screen Daily: Andrew Hevia director of Leave The Bus Through The Broken Window MORE +
Photobook Magazine: “The Conductor” is a nod to those everywhere who want to reach for their aspirations, no matter how intangible they may seem. MORE +
The Arts Fuse: See The Conductor for a reminder that women who want to lead orchestras still have a long way to go. MORE +
Brut: These Australian filmmakers recreated the last meals of death row inmates, and learned something surprising about Capital punishment. MORE +
ABC: "The Conservation Game," a Michael Webber film, took a hard look at the use of use of exotic animals, particularly big cat cubs, in television entertainment. MORE +
Union Bulletin: Columbus Zoo drops some animal vendors after Jack Hanna's inclusion in 'The Conservation Game' documentary MORE +
WKBN: The documentary, The Conservation Game, looks at the use of exotic animals and argues for tighter restrictions on the breeding, ownership and use of big cat cubs in the United States. MORE +
WOSU: Columbus Zoo Ending 'Highly Problematic Relationships' Highlighted In New Documentary MORE +
NBC4: Columbus Zoo documentary controversy MORE +
Under the Radar: Reviews: The Conductor (Tribeca Film Festival Recap) MORE +
Film Festival Traveler: In The Conductor, Bernadette Wegenstein gains unprecedented access to Marin Alsop, protégée of the legendary Leonard Bernstein and one of the first women to become music director of a major American orchestra MORE +
NBC4: Columbus Zoo acknowledges animal use issues raised in documentary MORE +
The Columbus Dispatch: "The Conservation Game" documentary explores celebrity conservationists' involvement in the exotic pet cat trade — specifically "big cats," like tigers, lions and leopards — and their relationships with unregulated "backyard breeders" and roadside zoos. MORE +
Fern TV: The approach of Emmett Brennan in this film Reflection: A Walk With Water is admirable. MORE +
Talk Cinema: Bernadette Wegenstein’s The Conductor, a doc about Marin Alsop, who at 9 went to one of Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts, which set her compass to smash through as the first music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. MORE +
Jack Shalom: The Conductor is an excellent documentary film about Marin Alsop, who struggles against enormous odds to become the first female conductor of a major symphony orchestra in the US. It’s a wonderful story told by Director Bernadette Wegenstein, with a compelling theme about the world of high stakes musicianship, along with the high cost of success for a woman in that field. MORE +
Film Festival Today: Wegenstein (The Good Breast) offers a lively, wholly engaging look at what makes this accomplished, electrifying titan of the music world tick. MORE +
Rotten Tomatoes: Father of the Cyborgs 100% Fresh MORE +
Real Fun DC: Carole Baskin of Tiger King and Dancing With The Stars and Big Cat Rescue fame came to Washington. Her more than a decade advocacy for the "Big Cat Public Safety Act" has a new higher profile and secret weapon in the explosive documentary "The Conservation Game." MORE +
Portland Press Herald: “Reflection: A Walk with Water” is a beautifully shot and lyrical 80-minute pingpong match between alarm and hope. Unsurprisingly, Brennan says that the common denominator in many environmental crises is water, an essential resource whose scarcity is born as much from human mismanagement as rainfall totals. MORE +
NBC Washington: The Conservation Game - Carole Baskin Visits Capitol Hill to Advocate for Big Cat Reform Bill MORE +
Inside Edition: Carole Baskin Slams Famed Zookeeper Jack Hanna in New Documentary 'The Conservation Game' MORE +
Arts Express: The Conductor: musician Marin Alsop's struggle to become the first US female conductor MORE +
WTOP: Carole Baskin wants you to forget ‘Tiger King’ and watch ‘The Conservation Game’ MORE +
Hammer to Nail: The Conductor offers a lively, wholly engaging look at what makes this accomplished, electrifying titan of the music world tick. MORE +
Daily Beast: The lobbying effort from Baskin and other advocates of the bill was partially chronicled in The Conservation Game, a new documentary about how big cats used on television as cubs often end up in exploitative and abusive situations. Baskin and other conservationists came to D.C. to promote the release of the film. MORE +
The Hill: “I think when people see this film, they will be outraged," Baskin said at the Thursday night Washington premiere of “The Conservation Game," which follows retired police officer Tim Harrison and a group of conservationists as they investigate the issue. MORE +
Politico: “Tiger King’s” Carole Baskin warned guests at “The Conservation Game” premiere Thursday that believe it or not, there are more Joe Exotics out there. MORE +
ABC News 7: The Conservation Game is making the rounds at film festivals and just won the Social Justice Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. MORE +
Variety: Everest Mountaineer Edmund Hillary’s Family Takes on Summit in New Doc, Cargo Launches Sales in Cannes MORE +
Snap Stream: Morning Express With Robin Meade - Carole Baskin/The Conservation Game MORE +
Film Festival Today: Entertaining and Informative from Start to Finish, “Father of the Cyborgs” Triumphs MORE +
Horror Buzz: a fascinating piece MORE +
Washington Blade: Tribeca fest yields must-see queer documentaries- Marin Alsop among top fare MORE +
Mighty Afrin: “Mighty Afrin” (pictured), from Greece’s Angelos Rallis, which took part in last year’s pitching forum and will return this year as part of the Docs in Progress section. MORE +
Screen Comment: Emmett Brennan’s dreamlike documentary follows the hikers and also speaks to experts, who discuss the pre-Colombian history of the Golden State, including those Natives who lived in the Owens Valley millennia before the White man came—and still do. MORE +
Blog Critics: With accounts and wisdom that resonate with millennials and others, Reflection is both a poetic meditation on water and a guide for practical change. MORE +
Architectural Digest: An important exploration of the built world MORE +
Daily Advent: The documentary Insert Coin goes behind the scenes of Midway Games, the studio behind franchises like Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam MORE +
Musee Magazine: This fascinating and beautifully filmed documentary has the story line, unique characters, production values, and music of a feature film.This fascinating and beautifully filmed documentary has the story line, unique characters, production values, and music of a feature film. MORE +
Forbes: Why Filmmaker Emmett Brennan Walked 200 Miles To Spotlight L.A.’s Water Crisis MORE +
WBGO: Bernadette Wegenstein’s The Conductor, a doc about Marin Alsop, who at 9 went to one of Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts, which set her compass to smash through as the first music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. MORE +
Film Threat: We can only hope to have more movies like The Father of the Cyborgs chronicling people like Phil Kennedy. MORE +
AIPT Comics: Father of the Cyborgs is not going to look at an open and shut topic. MORE +
TV Grapevine: Told she couldn’t become a music conductor because she was a girl, Marin Alsop persisted, until, against all odds, she broke through and became one of the world’s most renowned classical music conductors. MORE +
Moveable Fest: “Reflection: a walk with water” inspires by profiling people who have risen to the challenge, creating savvy solutions to feeding their plants and keeping their showers running and with Brennan leading by example, in addition to providing many others, the film makes change feel as if it’s within reach. MORE +
Metro Weekly: his week, New York’s Tribeca Film Festival premiered The Conductor, a new documentary providing a rare view into the life and career of Marin Alsop — “a character who by her nature chooses her words carefully, and is a self-proclaimed introvert,” says director Bernadette Wegenstein MORE +
Orca Sound: The fact that he is doing this for the greater good, as opposed to Elon Musk who with his Neuralink experiments is seeking even more money and power, makes it and Kennedy all the more amazing. MORE +
Eye for Film: It's a piece of still-living history which we should cherish, because in order to do this the right way, we must first imagine. MORE +
Pop Matters: DIRECTOR EMMETT BRENNAN ON THE MEDITATIVE URGENCY IN HIS ENVIRONMENTAL FILM, ‘REFLECTION: A WALK WITH WATER’ MORE +
Shockya: Tribeca Film Festival 2021 Exclusive: David Burke Video Interview and Clip For Father of the Cyborgs MORE +
Breezeway Productions: 2021 Tribeca Film Festival "Reflection: A Walk With Water" MORE +
Screen Fish: Challenges viewers to see possibilities for change. MORE +
Science and Film: Making its world premiere at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, the new documentary FATHER OF THE CYBORGS profiles neuroscientist Dr. Phil Kennedy whose research on brain-computer interfaces came under scrutiny when he implanted his own brain with electrodes in 2014. MORE +
Big Apple Reviews: Where there’s music, there is hope for humanity. MORE +
The Cinema Spot: Last Meal is a splendid yet somewhat haunting short film and documentary. MORE +
Click Magazine: A Reflection Documentary that will make you think minute by minute about the incalculable need to take care of our ecosystem. Recommended: 4/5 MORE +
Moveable Fest: As delicious as the food appears, “Last Meal” is designed to leave a bad taste in your mouth, leading one to question human nature that glosses over how a society reacts to acts of violence by carrying out violence of its own as well as the glorification of both crime and punishment in the media. MORE +
Music City Drive In: Inspiring and vivacious MORE +
Den of Cinema: Co-writer/directors Marcus McKenzie and Daniel Pricipe literally and figuratively give you food for thought regarding the ethics of capital punishment. MORE +
Unseen Films: It’s a glorious portrait of a woman you’ll want to hang out with and talk to for hours. MORE +
CBS News: "Reflection: A Walk With Water" (World Premiere) at Tribeca Film Festival MORE +
Women in Hollywood: The Conductor is a true underdog story. MORE +
Texas News Today: Rubric filmmaker Emmet Brennan’s documentary on the preciousness of water is the physical need to meet the important human needs by walking down the aqueducts of Los Angeles. MORE +
Politico: Carole Baskin of “Tiger King” fame will be in town next week — in person — for the D.C. premiere of “The Conservation Game.” MORE +
Shockya: Where there’s music, there is hope for humanity. MORE +
Your Classical: Alsop is one of the most articulate, persuasive champions of classical music, and understands how it can have a deeply positive impact on all facets of the community, both inside and outside the concert hall. MORE +
Wasteland Reviewer: Watch The Conductor Review Tribeca Film Festival MORE +
Moveable Fest: “The Conductor” pushes ahead to find new notes in a classical form and presents a dynamic portrait of an artist who will hopefully be less and less unique as the years go on. MORE +
UPI News: Tribeca Festival Premiere of "The Conductor" at Hudson Yards MORE +
Indie Entertainment Media: The Conductor is part of the women-led film productions at Tribeca Film Festival MORE +
Breezeway Productions: Interview with the filmmakers of the short documentary, "Last Meal" MORE +
The Game of Nerds: Through mesmerizing cinematography, food becomes a larger-than-life symbol to explore the life and crimes of incarcerated individuals sentenced to death. This captivating film unveils the neglected truths of execution and legal justice. MORE +
Film Threat: When it comes to life and death or guilt and innocence, the debate should never end. MORE +
Yahoo!: Watch The Conductor Trailer - Tribeca Film Festival Premiere MORE +
WSGW: The Conductor will World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival MORE +
Documentary Daily: The Conductor” tells the story of maestra Marin Alsop, the first woman to lead a major U.S. orchestra. MORE +
CBS News: The Conductor screens June 14 at Hudson Yards, and June 18 at Marine Park. MORE +
Bmore Art: The Conductor is a powerful testament to investing in yourself and pursuing long-held aspirations, evoking childhood dreams, struggle, and achievement through a touching score and energetic storytelling. MORE +
Bloomberg Radio: 'The Conductor' Tells Story of Female Trailblazer (Podcast) MORE +
Youthquake: This short is a rich and sharp contrast of food imagery against hearing the harrowing crimes from some notorious serial killers is written and directed by Marcus Mckenzie and Daniel Principe. MORE +
VMAN: The Conductor will screen at Tribeca Film Festival Viewpoints MORE +
First Showing: Festival Trailer for 'The Conductor' Doc About Conductor Marin Alsop MORE +
Baltimore Sun: Marin Alsop made history when she took the baton at Baltimore Symphony. MORE +
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VMAN: Reflection: a walk with water will screen at Tribeca Film Festival MORE +
Brownstoner: Friday, June 18, Marine Park will play host to Bernadette Wegenstein’s documentary “The Conductor,” which follows Marin Alsop, the leader of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the first woman to lead a major American orchestra. MORE +
NY Times: A Trailblazing Female Conductor Is Still Alone on the Trail. MORE +
Emanuel Levy: In this exhilarating documentary, Leonard Bernstein’s protégée Marin Alsop reveals how she smashed the glass ceiling to become an internationally renowned conductor. MORE +
Drink in the Movies: I found it to be a powerful short film. MORE +
Charlotte Gazette: Falconer teaches birds of love MORE +
Deadline: Tribeca Trailer Debut: ‘The Conductor’ Taps Baton With Maestra Marin Alsop, First Woman To Lead Major U.S. Orchestra. MORE +
Flixist: The best thing I can always say about a movie is that I want more of it, and I want more of Last Meal. MORE +
Il Monito: From California to Ferrara, Overland won Best Documentary at the Ferrara Film Festival MORE +
Levento Quotidiano: "Taming wild animals gives us back the nature of an ancestral link with nature and to be honest, the most human people I have known are those who work with wild animals." MORE +
Il Resto Del Carlino: "Falconry, a hymn to freedom" MORE +
Abruzzo City Rumors: Overland- Italian premiere at the Ferrara Film Festival MORE +
Veratv: Overland is an extraordinary, exciting and cinematic journey shot across four continents that winds and transforms itself like nature itself, connecting the ancient and the modern between earth and sky. MORE +
II Capolugo: Overland Movie wins in Ferrara with the film on falconry MORE +
La Tritalia Ambiente: Overland Movie, the documentary film on falconry shot in four countries around the world, including Italy, triumphs at the Ferrara Film Festival. MORE +
Prima Pagina News: Overland wins Best Documentary at the Ferrara Film Festival MORE +
Unseen Films: LAST MEAL - One of the best films at Tribeca, it’s also destined to be on the Oscar short list for next year. MORE +
NYU Alumni News: Reflection: a walk with water will screen at Tribeca 21' MORE +
Cinematic Faves: It is bold, empathetic and neatly made and should be on the watch list of all those at Tribeca. A spare 17-minutes and then hopefully a lifelong commitment to being against the eye-for-an-eye belief the USA upholds. MORE +
Women in Hollywood: “The Conductor” is a true underdog story. MORE +
Brooklyn Paper: Friday, June 18, Marine Park will play host to Bernadette Wegenstein’s documentary “The Conductor“, which follows Marin Alsop, the leader of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the first woman to lead a major American orchestra. MORE +
Village Voice: The Conductor will screen at Tribeca ‘21 MORE +
Cinemacy: The fact that the American Southwest is current experiencing a disaster-level water draught makes this documentary feel like a prescient and vital call-to-arms for everyone to learn from. MORE +
Film Festival Today: The combination of suspense-filled events and scientific endeavors makes this film a must-see. MORE +
SYFY WIRE: Father of the Cyborgs will premiere at Tribeca Film Festival Thursday, June 17, at 5 p.m. EST MORE +
DCEFF: Weekly Watch Now Pic: The Falconer MORE +
Chicago Crusader: In this short film, Hugh Ross narrates a look at just what the condemned eat before their execution. MORE +
Unseen Films: LAST MEAL- what starts off as a funny piece on the condemns last meals ends up as a catch in you throat look at capital punishment. I think this will be in the Oscar mix. MORE +
NY Times: When Marin Alsop steps down from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra this summer, it will leave the top tier of American ensembles as it was before she took the post in 2007: without a single female music director. MORE +
Bird Watching Daily: The Falconer, a documentary film about Rodney Stotts, one of only a few African American master falconers in the U.S., debuts this week on public television’s WORLD Channel and on the PBS app. MORE +
What Not to Doc: Coming to The WORLD Channel’s America ReFramed tomorrow, Tuesday, June 1: THE FALCONER MORE +
Momentum: The Black Falconer: A Documentary Showcasing The Real Power of Connection MORE +
TWI NY: Tribeca Film Festival The Conductor (Bernadette Wegenstein, 2021) will premiere at Marine Park MORE +
NY Carib News: The Falconer airs on Tuesday on the documentary series America ReFramed and will stream on WORLDChannel.org. MORE +
Women in Hollywood: The Falconer (Documentary) – Directed by Annie Kaempfer (Premieres June 1 on WORLD Channel) MORE +
CBS Baltimore: Music Director Marin Alsop Talks About Lessons, Accomplishments With Baltimore Symphony Orchestra MORE +
Reality Blurred: The Falconer follows Rodney Stotts, who “is on a mission to build a bird sanctuary and provide access to nature for his stressed community,” according to PBS. MORE +
The Guardian: A new documentary, The Falconer, follows Rodney Stotts, who found fulfillment in working with raptors and inner-city kids MORE +
The Washington Post: If conductor Marin Alsop’s done it, it’s probably because someone told her she couldn’t. MORE +
Black af in STEM: June 1st Birds Eye View | Rodney Stotts, subject of the film The Falconer for which we’ll be having a watch party sometime after the stream. MORE +
Closer Weekly: Satan & Adam leaving Netflix in June 2021 MORE +
The Guardian: ‘We really are just kids’: inside a film about the Parkland teen activists MORE +
In the Seats: Utterly timeless. MORE +
CNN: "Carole Baskin weighs in on tiger still missing in Houston and The Conservation Game." MORE +
MSNBC: US KIDS - Sparking change around the gun control debate. MORE +
MSNBC: Exotic pet specialist Tim Harrison talks about 9-month-old Bengal tiger India being found after it escaped from its owner's home last week MORE +
NPR: Filmmakers Discuss New Documentary On 'March For Our Lives' Movement MORE +
Hyperallergic: The Bizarre World of US Gun Violence, Seen Through Documentaries MORE +
Moveable Fest: I was watching all of this and wondering underneath it all, what was I doing at 17 and 18? MORE +
The Film Stage: Us Kids New to Streaming MORE +
The Daily Beast: David Hogg on His Surreal Run-In With Marjorie Taylor Greene and America’s Gun Crisis MORE +
KCRW: Us Kids documentary chronicles Parkland survivors-turned-gun control activists MORE +
Inlander: From Kim A. Snyder, director of the Peabody Award-winning documentary Newtown, comes an insightful, rousing coming-of-age story of a generation of youth leaders determined to take the reigns and fight for justice at a most critical time in our nation’s history. MORE +
The Brag: Satan & Adam leaving Netfilx this June MORE +
Cleveland Entertainment: ‘There is No Evil’ and ‘Us Kids’ top this week’s streaming movies at Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque MORE +
Black Girl Nerds: Activist Alex King and Kim Snyder Explore The Tragedy Behind the Parkland Shooting in ‘Us Kids’ MORE +
Pix11: Us Kids’: Film follows Parkland shooting survivors’ movement to end gun violence MORE +
The Independent: A nation of traumatised youth: Us Kids director Kim A Snyder talks Parkland students’ resolve and the eventual ‘generational shift’ in gun control MORE +
Atlanta Magazine: An adrenaline shot of hope. MORE +
That Shelf: Offers an up-close look at how these teenagers wrestled control out of the hands of corrupt, ignorant, and pernicious adults in positions of authority. These young activists know they can’t afford to wait around for the other side to have an epiphany and do the right thing. MORE +
Mashable: Us Kids is perhaps the most compelling example …of the ways in which viral clout can be mobilized for good — and not just in the online space, but to effect change offline as well. MORE +
Disappointment Media: What makes this film stand out is the fact that it succeeds in exploring the nuances of the discussion. It’s not black-and-white by any means, and Snyder is among the first filmmakers to truly acknowledge that. Us Kids is arguably the most empathetic documentary on Parkland yet. Featuring lesser-known yet still compelling perspectives, Kim Snyder does an excellent job of perpetuating the conversation about gun violence. MORE +
Remezcla: Snyder tells the touching coming-of-age story of this group of driven, resilient, empathetic individuals all navigating the personal consequences of their remarkable choice to dedicate their own lives to honor the fallen and take back democracy. MORE +
Sonic Cinema: It’s worth your time to watch for yourself. MORE +
HYE'S Musings: HYE’S PICKS & RECOMMENDATIONS,” includes CANNON ARM MORE +
RogerEbert.com: Something for the Tiger King crowd, but eschews sensationalism to deliver something with much more bite. MORE +
Film Threat: Michael Webber’s documentary blows the lid off this scam, exposing the seedy underbelly of TV animal trafficking. MORE +
Game Fragger: CANNON ARM AND THE ARCADE QUEST: Director Mads Hedegaard Details The Record-Breaking Adventure MORE +
Tilt: As a love letter to one of the havens for gaming communities to come together, Hedegaard’s initial interest in Kim’s Gyruss attempt eventually gives way to a delightful exploration of the importance of community. MORE +
One Movie Our Views: “#HotDocs21 Audience Award Winners” includes CANNON ARM AND THE ARCADE QUEST, by John Corrado. MORE +
THE Black Eskimo Podcast: Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest Review by David B. Dacosta. MORE +
Digital Hit: Not all heroes wear capes and not all leaders have huge followings. In Mads Hedegaard’s Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest, we learn that some have a quest and a pocketful of change. MORE +
Slacker Cinema: A gloriously fun journey into this outsider lifestyle anchored by a loveable group of misfits you can't help but root for, Cannon Arm and The Arcade Quest is undoubtedly the best snapshot of this subculture since King of Kong and a truly captivating underdog story. A strong recommend. MORE +
San Diego Reader: The Conservation Game is a doozy of a documentary that, if given half the chance, should have the same detrimental impact on celebrity animal handlers that The Cove and Blackfish did on SeaWorld. MORE +
cbs8: Documentary showing cruel practice of trading exotic animals screening in San Diego MORE +
It's South Asian: In this quirky comedy, filmmaker Mads Hedegaard provides a surprisingly philosophical look at legendary world records, quirky hairdos, the importance of community, and what a real hero looks like. MORE +
Cinema 365: Even if you don’t game, you can relate to folks like this. MORE +
Variety: Cargo Film & Releasing Picks Up Hot Docs Title ‘Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest’ (EXCLUSIVE) MORE +
San Diego Magazine: An animal lover’s movie night! San Diego’s nonprofit exotic animal rescue Lions Tigers & Bears will be hosting two screenings of The Conservation Game, a new documentary by Michael Webber about celebrity conservationists and the big cat trade. MORE +
Deadline: ‘Cannon Arm And The Arcade Quest’ Trailer: CPH:DOX & HotDocs Title Follows A Veteran Gamer’s World Record Attempt MORE +
Moveable Fest: Director Mads Hedegaard makes an extraordinary debut conjuring the magic of what Cannon Arm’s chase for the record has meant for his group of friends, MORE +
Movie Pie: Never dull and always fun, and with a fantastic editing job by Mark Bukdahl, Cannon Arm is one of those surefire crowd-pleasers that Hot Docs audiences will love. MORE +
Realscreen: Tribeca Online Premieres features The Last Meal MORE +
Street Sense Media: Changing people’s lives one bird at a time: Rodney Stotts uses falconry to reach youth MORE +
Sun This Week: Mads Hedegaard’s narrates his colorful, fascinating, informative, insightful, 97-minute documentary that gives a history of arcade machines... MORE +
Film Experience: In this exhilarating documentary, Leonard Bernstein’s protégée Marin Alsop reveals how she smashed the glass ceiling to become an internationally renowned conductor. MORE +
Unseen Films: Forget what you think this film is, this is something else. A wickedly entertaining look at Kim, his friends and the place they hang out, it is video game documentary that is much more than a video game doc. MORE +
Film Threat: The compelling story of raptors and their companion humans presented in breathtaking footage is one of the most unexpectedly thrilling and satisfying cinematic adventures you’ll have. MORE +
Original Cin: Mads Hegedgaard finds a sweet spot between comedy and empathy as it follows Kim’s quest. MORE +
LRM Online: Mads Hedegaard on Filming Quirky Doc Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest [Exclusive Interview] MORE +
Now Toronto: By the time he drops that coin in the slot, we’re invested. MORE +
The Mary Sue: Interview with Joshua Tsui about his Midway Games documentary Insert Coin MORE +
Deadline: Cargo Film & Releasing Acquires Sales Rights To Tribeca-Premiering Doc The Conductor MORE +
Deadline: Cargo Film & Releasing Acquires Sales Rights To Tribeca-Premiering Doc Father of the Cyborgs MORE +
Brooklyn Vegan: The Conductor announced in Tribeca Film Festival's 2021 lineup MORE +
The Film Stage: The Conductor will World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival 2021 this June MORE +
Emanuel Levy: Told she couldn’t become a music conductor because she was a girl, Marin Alsop persisted, until, against all odds, she broke through and became one of the world’s most renowned classical music conductors. MORE +
Variety: ‘Epicentro’ Director Hubert Sauper, Oscar Nominee With ‘Darwin’s Nightmare,’ on Cinema and Colonialism MORE +
Next Best Picture: The Conductor selected in Viewpoints category for Tribeca Film Festival 2021 MORE +
Film Pulse: The Conductor will World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival 2021 MORE +
Indiewire: In this exhilarating documentary, Leonard Bernstein’s protégée Marin Alsop reveals how she smashed the glass ceiling to become an internationally renowned conductor. MORE +
Entertainment Weekly: The Conductor will World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival 2021 MORE +
Deadline: In this exhilarating documentary, Leonard Bernstein’s protégée Marin Alsop reveals how she smashed the glass ceiling to become an internationally renowned conductor. MORE +
Deadline: Father of the Cyborgs World Premiere, Feature Documentary. Dr. Kennedy made headlines for implanting electrodes in the brain of a paralyzed man then teaching the patient to control a computer. After much controversy he later began experimenting on himself. MORE +
Variety: The Conductor World Premiere, Feature Documentary. In this exhilarating documentary, Leonard Bernstein’s protégée Marin Alsop reveals how she smashed the glass ceiling to become an internationally renowned conductor. MORE +
Polygon: “In the arcade, there were no parents walking around, so they had no idea,” Josh Tsui, former Midway Games artist and Insert Coin documentarian, told Polygon. MORE +
Good News Network: Falconry Saves Man from Life of Crime, Now he Helps Birds and At-Risk Youth Take flight MORE +
Roger Ebert: Michael Webber’s “Conservation Game,” which likewise received its world premiere at the festival, is something for the "Tiger King" crowd, but it eschews sensationalism to deliver something much more biting as it exposes celebrity conservationists and “the seedy underbelly of backyard breeders and the roadside zoo.” MORE +
The Independent: Santa Barbara International Film Festival winner Social Justice Award for Documentary Film: Michael Webber’s THE CONSERVATION GAME MORE +
Realscreen: Father of the Cyborgs | Realscreen’s 2021 MIPTV Picks MORE +
Realscreen: Surviving Sinaga | Realscreen’s 2021 MIPTV Picks MORE +
Fox 13: A member of Utah's 'The 5 Browns' opens up about being abused as a child and what she's doing to help children now MORE +
The Hill: Biden invokes Flint water crisis in infrastructure pitch MORE +
CS Monitor: But for Mr. Stotts, whose life is profiled in a new documentary, “The Falconer,” it’s highest in personal reward. If he could change, he tells the young people he works with, so can they. MORE +
edhat: This film will make you rethink animal rights, and hopefully, respect these animals which were never meant to be 'pets'. MORE +
Sling Words: The documentary, actually filmed over a 20+ year period, is life affirming and makes one believe in Destiny. These 2 men from such disparate backgrounds were destined to meet and make beautiful blues music together. MORE +
Realscreen: Cargo takes world rights to Michael Webber’s “The Conservation Game” MORE +
Santa Barbara Independent: Mark our words — the world premiere of this absolute bombshell of a documentary, directed by Michael Webber, will change the big business of animals on TV forever. MORE +
Art Net News: Artist Matthew Taylor directs a love letter to Marcel Duchamp, who changed the course of art history not once, but twice. MORE +
Realscreen: Dr. Miami nominated Best Documentary Programming for the Canadian Screen Awards MORE +
Realscreen: Father of Cyborgs, meanwhile, tells the story of neurologist Phil Kennedy, who made global headlines in the late 1990s by connecting the brain of a paralyzed man to a computer. MORE +
Medium: With a Keen Eye for Character, ‘The Falconer’ Soars MORE +
Wild Life Film: Environmental Film Festival Presents THE FALCONER Profiling DC Native Master Falconer Rodney Stotts MORE +
Wild Life Film: DC native Annie Kaempfer, who grew up in various Northwest neighborhoods. Her film, The Falconer, follows the story of Rodney Stotts, an African American Washingtonian whose life revolves around birding and falconry. MORE +
The Tacoma Ledger: Winning first prize in DCFF’s storyteller award this year was “Falconer” directed by Annie Kaempfer. Filmed in Washington D.C., “Falconer” is an intimate portrait that features Rodney Stotts, a Washington, DC based falconer. MORE +
Washington City Paper: The Falconer at DCEFF MORE +
Distract Fray: The Falconer, which follows master falconer Rodney Stotts as he builds a bird sanctuary in Laurel, Maryland. MORE +
The Washington Post: From running in D.C.’s streets to soaring over them with his birds of prey MORE +
The Irish Times: An extraordinary meditation on ethics and the limits of science. MORE +
Cineuropa: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela [+] by Anabel Rodríguez Ríos received a Special Mention by the jury MORE +
Screen Daily: The film premieres at the Dublin International Film Festival before being released in the UK and Ireland by Wildcard Distribution and is likely to attract audiences to both big and small screens beyond. MORE +
Princeton: A highly regarded blues harmonica player, Gussow partnered for years with Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee in the duo Satan & Adam, playing on the streets of Harlem. MORE +
Joe: WATCH: Father of the Cyborgs looks at Irish neuroscientist who experimented on his own brain MORE +
Variety: Parkland Aftermath Documentary ‘Us Kids’ Acquired by Cargo Film MORE +
The Irish Times: Father of the Cyborgs: The Irish neurologist who hacked his own brain. A new film about Phil Kennedy explores his groundbreaking scientific work. MORE +
Modern Times: CORRUPTION: Political turmoil and ecological catastrophe come together in Venezuela's existential fight for survival. MORE +
Vita Thrills: Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight on Women’s History Month Programming on HBO Max MORE +
The Hollywood Reporter: A compassionate portrait, eager to let its subjects speak for themselves. MORE +
The Film Stage: A timely picture that chronicles this movement with the emotional gut punch and importance it requires. MORE +
Indiewire: A galvanizing reminder that change is only possible if we believe in it. MORE +
Culture Map Dallas: Demonstrates that change can come from anyone. MORE +
Variety: A potent testimony to the impact of citizen protest. MORE +
Common Sense Media: ★★★★★! The human toll of fighting for a just cause leaves a mark on the viewer, while the young activists’ ability to make change against incredible odds provides hope for those who also want to leave their mark on society. MORE +
LA Times: Indispensable viewing for anyone who genuinely cares about the future of this country. MORE +
The Patriot Ledger: It rips your heart out. But it’s also highly inspiring, as we watch a bunch of teenagers evolve into fully-formed adults right before our eyes. MORE +
The NY Times: Skillfully handles a sensitive subject and connects the Parkland students’ stories to those of Black students whose experiences with gun violence rarely garner similar national attention. MORE +
The San Francisco Chronicle: The humanity Snyder’s cameras captures is stirring. MORE +
Decider: Insert Coin - New Movies On Demand MORE +
The Journal IE: A NEW IRISH documentary looks at the fascinating life and career of an Irishman who has been at the forefront of experiments involving the human brain. MORE +
Film Threat: Insert Coin nominated for Pop Culture Documentary MORE +
Missoulian: Big Sky Doc Fest: A Black falconer's mission to build a bird sanctuary MORE +
Mixed: Insert Coin covers the rise and fall of the legendary game studio Midway, which made video game history with titles like Ms. Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat, and NBA Jam. Bigscreen shows the documentation for one week for free. MORE +
Upload VR: Bigscreen is hosting a free screening of video game documentary Insert Coin, preceded by a Q&A session with the film’s director and Ernest Cline. MORE +
VR Focus: Bigscreen To Host ‘Insert Coin’ Documentary & Creator Q&A For Free Next Week MORE +
Realscreen: Cargo Film & Releasing, Bigscreen team for Insert Coin screening MORE +
Be Latina: ‘Once Upon a Time in Venezuela,’ A Different Look at the Country’s Migration Crisis MORE +
The Guardian: A shadow history: the unseen photographs of Elliott Erwitt MORE +
Remezcla: They Call Me Dr. Miami is streaming exclusively on Discovery+. MORE +
Distractify: How to Score an Appointment With Dr. Miami, According to the Celeb Surgeon (EXCLUSIVE) MORE +
Realscreen: They Call Me Dr. Miami acquired by Discovery+ MORE +
Heavy: Eva Zafira Zion, Dr. Michael Salzhauer’s Wife: 5 Fast Facts MORE +
Heavy: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Catching Up with Plastic Surgeon ‘Dr. Miami’ MORE +
Washington Post: They Call Me Dr. Miami on Discovery + MORE +
EW: They Call Me Dr. Miami (doc) — Discovery+ streaming MORE +
Heavy: How Much Does Dr. Miami Charge His Clients? MORE +
TV Insider: On Discovery+: They Call Me Dr. Miami, a documentary profiling controversial celebrity plastic surgeon Michael Salzhauer… MORE +
Daily Journal: Discovery+ debuts the 2020 documentary “They Call Me Dr. Miami,” a profile of a celebrated plastic surgeon. MORE +
Cineuropa: Once Upon A Time in Venezuela by Anabel Rodríguez Ríos at Luxembourg City Film Festival MORE +
Nicki Swift: Dr. Miami: How Much Is The Controversial Plastic Surgeon Worth? Read More: https://www.nickiswift.com/328460/dr-miami-how-much-is-the-controversial-plastic-surgeon-worth/?utm_campaign=clip MORE +
Nicki Swift: The Untold Truth Of Dr. Miami MORE +
BBC: "'Once upon a time in Venezuela, Congo Mirador' puts its finger on the sore at the necessary moment": the commented Venezuelan documentary that seeks to reach the Oscars MORE +
Awards Daily: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela predicted for Oscars Foreign Language MORE +
Efecto Cocuyo: Once upon a time in Venezuela is a job done over low heat and with a lot of patience #ConLaLuz MORE +
Voanoticias: "Once Upon a Time in Venezuela" or "Once Upon a Time in Venezuela" puts this country in the crosshairs of the Oscars of the film academy. MORE +
Explica: The Venezuelan documentary that seeks to reach the Oscars MORE +
Cinema Tropical: Filmmaker Anabel Rodríguez Ríos’ first feature Once Upon a Time in Venezuela is competing as the Venezuelan Oscar contender and premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2020 MORE +
Mondour: he documentary "Once upon a time in Venezuela" participates in a shortlist for the "Oscar Awards." The results of this list will be revealed on February 9 MORE +
The Irish Times: The new Future Shock strand will give us a chance to see David Burke’s much-talked-about documentary The Father of the Cyborgs. MORE +
Realscreen: Discovery + picked up Jean-Simon Chartier’s feature-length documentary They Call Me Dr. Miami MORE +
Forbes: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela Available on global indie streamer Topic MORE +
Remezcla: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela Competing for Best International Film Oscar Nomination This Year MORE +
Cord Cutters News: They Call Me Dr. Miami coming to Discovery Thursday, February 11 MORE +
Variety: “Once Upon a Time in Venezuela,” by newcomer Anabel Rodríguez Ríos, world-premiered at Sundance. It centers on the coastal village of Congo Mirador and its struggle to survive the impact of climate change and endemic corruption. MORE +
Missoulian: The Falconer will screen at Big Sky Documentary Film Fest 2021 MORE +
Streamable: A doc about a plastic surgeon who live streams his operations on social media is coming to discovery+ on Feb. 11. MORE +
Gossip Cop: Why Michael Salzhauer Is The Most Controversial Plastic Surgeon Today MORE +
Caracas Chronicles: In Once Upon a Time in Venezuela, Venezuelan filmmaker Anabel Rodríguez Ríos shows the lives of the people affected by the gradual disappearance of Congo Mirador, a water town in Zulia state MORE +
Big Sky Film Festival: The Falconer 2021 official selection MORE +
Realscreen: Discovery+ slates “They Call Me Dr. Miami” MORE +
The Streamable: They Call Me Dr. Miami coming to Discovery February 11th, 2021 MORE +
Deadline: Discovery+ Picks Up Plastic Surgery Doc ‘They Call Me Dr. Miami’ MORE +
Deadline: Once Upon A Time is striking in the way it judiciously balances the urgent with the timeless; while there is considerable political debate and disagreement about what to do in the moment, laid over that is a sense of the eternal, that this too will pass, even if the community is soon swallowed up once again by the jungle. MORE +
Caracas: Their most-viewed film is the documentary Once Upon a Time in Venezuela.. MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: Corrupt politics and corrosive environmental destruction soak through every frame of director Anabel Rodríguez Ríos' feature-length documentary about the decline of a Venezuelan fishing village off the shores of Lake Maracaibo, offering a firsthand account of a country abandoned by its leaders that examines the deeper roots of Venezuela's despair. MORE +
Screen Daily: Debutante Anabel Rodriguez Rios’s Venezuelan Sundance 2020 selection Once Upon A Time In Venezuela is co-produced by the UK’s Spiraleye Productions and focuses on the fight by a local community to preserve its way of life. MORE +
Vancouver Island: VIFF International entries include Once Upon a Time in Venezuela MORE +
ABC10: ‘Epicentro’ Review: A monumental and monumentally complex observation of Cuba at a crossroads MORE +
Chek News: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela highlights from VIFF 2021 MORE +
The Wrap: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela "Documentaries Invade the Oscars International Race, Again" MORE +
Film Threat: Once Upon A Time In Venezuela is important for people here in the U.S. to see. MORE +
CW69: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela is the country’s official Oscar submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature. MORE +
48 Hills: Likewise bigger on showing than telling is Once Upon a Time in Venezuela, that nation’s current Oscar submission for the Best International Feature prize. MORE +
Houston Chronicle: Preview picks: ‘Once Upon a Time in Venezuela,’ MORE +
First Showing: Official US Trailer for Documentary 'Once Upon a Time in Venezuela' MORE +
Boston Globe: Not policing the police in Boston and Philadelphia; visiting Venezuela MORE +
NBC News Latino: "A searing documentary on Venezuela" MORE +
Ars Technica: Ssometimes the right subject finds the right person behind the camera, too, and that's what makes Insert Coin much more than your average video game behind-the-scenes documentary. MORE +
Venture Beat: GamesBeat Summit 2020 also used Hearo to broadcast a snippet of Josh Tsui’s game documentary, Insert Coin. MORE +
Ocean Drive: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela, the film by Anabel Rodríguez Ríos that could bring us an Oscar MORE +
ZTGD: For anyone that has any interest on how games are made, how the arcade scene was operated, or even how blockbuster deals and movies are spawned from these deals, this documentary is a must watch. MORE +
The Gamer: Joshua Tsui - provides an intimate look at the rise of one of gaming’s most legendary studios, as well as immense levels of nostalgia for those of us who grew up during its heyday MORE +
The Gamer: A Brief Chat With Insert Coin Director Joshua Tsui MORE +
Video Game History: Ep. 9: Josh Tsui MORE +
The Hashtag Show: If You’re A Fan Of Video Games, Insert Coin Is For You MORE +
Go Nintendo: The reviews for Insert Coin are in, and the documentary is getting tons of press from critics the world over. MORE +
Watch Docs: The laureate of the competition at 20th WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film International Film Festival is Anabel Rodríguez Ríos. The director was awarded the prize for “Once Upon a Time in Venezuela.”Note, the link will open in a new window MORE +
Daily Mail: Flint receives four stars MORE +
WGN:A new documentary looks at Chicago’s connection to some of the most iconic video games of the ’90’s MORE +
Venture Beat: Midway wasn’t just shocking. It was exciting, and that is the company’s greatest legacy. MORE +
Geek Tyrant: If you love learning about the history of video games, you’ll want to check out Joshua Tsui’s latest documentary Insert Coin. MORE +
Of Those Who: This is where Insert Coin excels, by letting the artists tell their own perspectives of their own experiences that helped shape their own industry and medium. MORE +
Short and Sweet NYC: If ever there was a story of the public getting hold of something and then rabidly hoping for that something to keep pushing the limits of taste, speed, and fun, Insert Coin tells that tale. MORE +
Press Play News: Insert Coin – Director Interview MORE +
Drop the Spotlight: This documentary brought back so many memories of playing at the arcade at the mall as a kid. MORE +
Flixist: It’s nice to finally see something video game-related that feels like the director had a true passion for the subject matter at hand MORE +
Video Chump: A lot of the stories presented in Insert Coin were completely new to me and hearing them straight from the developers' mouths was great fun. MORE +
27 East: Husband And Wife Film Team Travels The Globe To Document The Art Of Falconry MORE +
Sag Harbor Express: Hamptons Doc Fest: ‘Overland’ Explores the Ancient Art of Falconry MORE +
Lean Forward Gaming: Insert Coin — The Definitive Midway Games Documentary — Coming Soon on Additional VoD Storefronts MORE +
Altered Confusion: I’m always a huge fan of documentaries that deal with the video game industry, so here’s yet another one I’m definitely going to sink my teeth into. MORE +
Game Device: Josh Tsui on making Insert Coin, movies vs. games, Midway Games, getting into SXSW, editing, AR/VR/MR & much more on Spotify & other podcast apps MORE +
Indie Game Review: Insert Coin is worth seeing. MORE +
Chicago Tribune: Chicago was a video game powerhouse in the ’90s. ‘Insert Coin’ looks at the company behind Mortal Kombat MORE +
Mary Sue: Insert Coin Is a Toasty Gamer Time Capsule Documentary About Midway Games MORE +
The Patch: Movie Review: Video Game Documentary 'Insert Coin' Is A Fun Look At An Interesting Time In The Industry MORE +
Variety: Over the course of several years, Anabel Rodriguez Rios’ unsentimentally elegiac documentary “Once Upon a Time in Venezuela” quietly observes Congo Mirador being brought to its knees, to progressively powerful and enraging effect. MORE +
Letter Boxd: So much good info, I wonder what was cut for time. MORE +
Deco Mag: FLINT offers insight into what happens to the poorest in society when trust between them, the authorities and vested interests breaks down. MORE +
Coyote PR: For a world coming to grips with issues of racial injustice and a lack of trust in government and science, FLINT is a devastating and timely insight about what happens when that trust completely breaks down. MORE +
The Fan Carpet: Montrose Pictures Present FLINT – WHO CAN YOU TRUST? A Film By Anthony Baxter Premieres This December On BBC + BBC iPlayer MORE +
The Spinning Image: It was a documentary beginning with something to say about the huge letdown the authorities in America had inflicted on the poorest regions, yet went on to describe the resulting blight on the world that infected every corner of the internet: the breakdown of trust. MORE +
OC Movie Reviews: Flint is a shocking story, something you can’t quite believe would happen in one of the richest countries in the world. The lack of input from the government, the fact that the governor kept his job, wasn’t sent to jail, the whole thing stinks. If that’s what the ‘land of the free’ looks like, you can keep it. MORE +
Outtake Mag: Viewing of this documentary is of paramount importance. MORE +
Movies Review 101: Flint is an essential documentary that will put a new light on the troubles in one city and how the people have been left helpless in their battle for answers. MORE +
Free Sat: The premiere of Flint is coming to BBC Scotland on Tuesday 1st December. It's a documentary filmed over five years exploring the untold story of the man-made disaster that continues to haunt America, and it's narrated by Alec Baldwin. MORE +
DRM: The documentary Flint – Who Can You Trust? will be premiering on Tuesday 1 December 2020 at 10pm BBC Scotland and BBC iPlayer and it’s one of those films you should not miss out on. Filmed over a period of five years and narrated by Alec Baldwin tell a story that continues to haunts citizens of Flint till this day. MORE +
SWH: Dangerous Waters: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talks To Anthony Baxter… MORE +
Action Figure Insider: Dive into the history of Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, Smash TV, and More in Documentary Insert Coin MORE +
The National: How the poisoning of Flint, Michigan's water supply shocked the world MORE +
The Courier: Angus filmmaker who clashed with Donald Trump talks new BBC documentary Flint, trust, politics and standing up for the little guy MORE +
Eco Hustler: The astonishing, untold story of the man-made disaster that continues to haunt America MORE +
The Herald: Flint: Documentary by Montrose filmmaker to air on BBC Scotland MORE +
The Guardian: TV tonight: Alec Baldwin wades into some muddy American waters MORE +
Shack News: The franchise that put a national spotlight on video game violence has put forth a host of legends in the gaming industry. MORE +
Famitsu: This work deals with the glory and sunset of Midway Games, a game maker that dominated the 1990s with the fighting game " Mortal Kombat " and the basketball game " NBA Jam. MORE +
Game Informer: [W]e interview Josh Tsui, the director of the documentary Insert Coin, which chronicles the success of Midway during its arcade heyday, which saw the release of games like Narc, Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, and Smash TV. MORE +
Sector: It focuses on the creation of Midway Games, which are just the authors of Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam and other slot machine legends, while introducing you to a part of game history that you do not know. MORE +
Game Blog: Insert Coin: The documentary on the history of Midway available in France, the infos MORE +
But Why Tho: As Mortal Kombat’s Shang Tsung would say… FLAWLESS VICTORY! MORE +
Go Nintendo: DIVE INTO THE HISTORY OF MORTAL KOMBAT, NBA JAM, SMASH TV, AND MORE IN DOCUMENTARY INSERT COIN MORE +
Cine File: INSERT COIN made me miss those unique arcade spaces even more. MORE +
Game Room: Insert Coin: The documentary on the history of Midway available in France, infos MORE +
Third Coast Review: Review: Video Game Documentary Insert Coin is a Fun Look at an Interesting Time in the Industry MORE +
NO CLIP PODCAST: The Documentary Exploring Midway, Mortal Kombat & NBA Jam - Noclip Podcast #44 MORE +
But Why Through: Insert Coin 10/10 review MORE +
Chicago Sun Times: Insert Coin documentary highlights Midway Games’ arcade empire MORE +
Inverse: INSERT COIN REVEALS HOW ARCADE GIANT MIDWAY GAMES COLLAPSED MORE +
First Showing: First Trailer for 'Insert Coin' Doc Telling the History of Midway Games MORE +
SCPR: "Insert Coin" on Alamo on Demand and Laemmle's Virtual Cinema MORE +
Bleeding Cool: New Midway Games Doc Insert Coin Is More Than Worth Your Time MORE +
PXLBB: Insert Coin is a documentary that gives viewers a glimpse into the history of legendary development studio Midway Games and is available today on VOD on Alamo on Demand . MORE +
Films Gone Wild: Insert Coin offers a glowing look back to the time when you could at least buy one blood-splattered fight for a quarter. MORE +
Gamastura: Dive into the history of Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, Smash TV, and More in Documentary Insert Coin MORE +
Ars Technica: TRULY ON FIRE — Insert Coin, the arcade documentary worth feeding all your quarters into MORE +
Lean Forward Gaming: Dive into the history of Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, Smash TV, and More in Documentary Insert Coin MORE +
Hgunified: Available today via Alamo Drafthouse’s Alamo On Demand Digital Release, Insert Coin takes viewers back to the early days of the groundbreaking studio, famous for legendary titles like Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, and Narc. MORE +
Santa Fe Reporter: Tsui weaves in the '90s explosion in home gaming, pointing out how Midway's refining the medium led to more gamers looking to get out of the arcade. MORE +
Slash Film: ‘Insert Coin’ Video Game Documentary Coming to Alamo Drafthouse VOD and More Virtual Cinemas MORE +
Shack News: Joshua Tsui on his new Insert Coin Documentary & involvement in Mortal Kombat MORE +
Nintendo Wire: Midway Games was one of the most legendary arcade developers ever, having made the likes of NBA Jam, Mortal Kombat, Rampage, and more. And now a new documentary about their times is coming to Alamo On Demand and other virtual cinema services tomorrow, November 25th. MORE +
AIPT: Video game documentary ‘Insert Coin’ coming to Alamo on Demand and virtual cinemas November 25 MORE +
Alamo on Demand: NSERT COIN Pleasure Dome Watch Party with Live Intro + Post-Film Polygon Q&A on Sunday, November 29th, 2020 at 6:00 pm CT MORE +
Noam Kroll: PODCAST: How To Craft a Riveting SXSW Documentary Feature With Director Josh Tsui of INSERT COIN MORE +
Polygon: The secret history of Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, and more — plus a bonus panel hosted by Polygon MORE +
The Main Edge: You might say that “Insert Coin” is 100% my jam – my NBA Jam. MORE +
Eldiario: The Venezuelan filmmaker Anabel Rodríguez Ríos spent years in Congo Mirador, the stilt town located on the edge of Lake Maracaibo, in the west of the country, and now recounts the experience in her first documentary feature film, which has become a visible metaphor for the national tragedy MORE +
Game Rant: Insert Coin, the documentary about Midway Games and its arcade massive hits, controversy, and more, receives a release date. MORE +
Toy Tales: The Friday Five: Joshua Tsui MORE +
The Gamer: Midway Games Documentary Insert Coin Debuts This November 25 MORE +
Calgary Herald: Insert Coin is an in-depth look at Midway Games, one of the world’s foremost video-game studios. MORE +
Navarro County Gazette: It’s a personal love letter to a unique and special time when games went as far as their creator’s imaginations could take them, benefitting from those brilliant flashes of weird and excessive. MORE +
LRM Online: Insert Coin is the definitive look at one of the most important contributors to gaming history. MORE +
Drop the Spotlight: Coming Next Week – Midway Games-focused Documentary — Insert Coin MORE +
Versus Media: Insert Coin is Joshua Tsui's love letter to Midway Games, where he worked on the Mortal Kombat franchise. Features interviews with former Midway team members , including Eugene Jarvis, Mark Turmell, John Tobias, George Petro, and others. Also featured are industry insiders Carly Kocurek and novelist and screenwriter Ernest Cline . MORE +
Indiewire: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela up for Oscars 2020 MORE +
Screen Daily: Once Upon A Time In Venezuela screening at IDFA 2020 MORE +
Film Inquiry: Flint is a bona fide socio-political thriller, featuring big twists when facts go to war with pseudoscience. MORE +
Hammer to Nail: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela "10 DOCS TO CATCH AT DOC NYC 2020" MORE +
Barstool Sports: Eddie Interviews An NBA Jam/Mortal Kombat Developer MORE +
Geek Vibes Nation: Overland will screen at Hamptons Doc Fest 2020 MORE +
The Guardian: Elliott Erwitt: 'Photography is pretty simple. You just react to what you see' MORE +
The Guardian: "They have found photos, videos and “trophy items” that suggest he attacked 195 men between 2005 and 2017." MORE +
NY Times: "He looked his victims up on Facebook afterward and tried to add them as friends." MORE +
Insider: "Many victims of Britain's most prolific rapist didn't know they had been assaulted until police told them." MORE +
Buzzfeed: "The "Most Prolific Rapist In British Legal History" Used The Drug GHB On His Male Victims." MORE +
That Shelf: Flint: Who Can You Trust will screen at CUFF Docs 2020 MORE +
That Shelf: Insert Coin will screen at CUFF Docs 2020 MORE +
Tele Diario: "[T]oday a new trailer for the documentary Insert Coin was released that explains the golden age of arcade consoles and some games like Mortal Kombat." MORE +
Shazoo: Insert Coin "The video shows the main events of the company's history: the rise in popularity of video games, the first Mortal Kombat, games for various franchises, and controversies about violence in video games." MORE +
Underfire new to VOD and streaming this weekend MORE +
Everything Action: Insert Coin Slam Dunks Your Nostalgia in November MORE +
News Locker: Midway Games Documentary Insert Coin Reveals Trailer And Release Date MORE +
Mondo Media: Insert Coin, a documentary that tells the story of Midway Games, is getting released digitally on November 25, 2020 MORE +
Games Press: Insert Coin releases on November 25, 2020, as part of Alamo Drafthouse’s Alamo On Demand Digital Release and in independent cinemas nationwide. MORE +
Flip Board: Midway Games Documentary Insert Coin Reveals Trailer And Release Date MORE +
Games Spot: Midway Games Documentary Insert Coin Reveals Trailer And Release Date MORE +
Versus Media: INSERT COIN, THE MIDWAY GAMES DOCUMENTARY, TO PREMIERE AT THE END OF NOVEMBER MORE +
The Game Shed: Today, Cargo Film & Releasing — a global film sales and distribution agency — is pleased to announce the upcoming digital release of Insert Coin, a documentary focused on the history of Midway Games, a ragtag team of game developers with a simple punk-rock design mantra: “there are no rules.” MORE +
Drop the Spotlight: Insert Coin, the Ultimate Midway Games Documentary, Releases November 25 as Part of Alamo Drafthouse On Demand MORE +
Hardcore Gamers: Boom Shakka Lakka! Insert Coin, the Ultimate Midway Games Documentary, Releases November 25 as Part of Alamo Drafthouse On Demand MORE +
SKNR: Insert Coin Comes To Alamo Drafthouse And Explores Classic Gaming Hits MORE +
Bionic Buzz: Insert Coin, the Ultimate Midway Games Documentary, Releases Nov 25th MORE +
Post Magazine: Lost in Hong Kong, Moonlight co-producer Andrew Hevia’s intended film about the city’s art scene became documentary of his failure to execute the plan MORE +
Deadline: Anabel Rodríguez Ríos’ documentary Once Upon a Time in Venezuela has been selected by Venezuela as the country’s Oscar International Feature entry MORE +
Shack News: Late this November, Insert Coin will take a deep dive into the history of Midway Games and explore how the likes of Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, and more came to fruition. MORE +
The Wrap: Oscars Documentary Race Gets Bigger, More Competitive With New Batch of 33 Films MORE +
Sounds and Colors: Anabel Rodríguez Ríos’ documentary about the plight of a small fishing village in Venezuela was described as “a stunning microcosm of a global battle to safeguard cultural heritage and retain political relevancy”. MORE +
Realscreen: New York-based sales house Cargo Film & Releasing has taken the world rights to George Attwood and Callum Roe’s Surviving Sinaga. MORE +
Viennale Blog: Best Austrian Film EPICENTRO, Hubert Sauper, Austria/France 2020 MORE +
303 Magazine: Denver Film Festival continues with an online screening of Once Upon a Time in Venezuela. The film, created by filmmaker Anabel Rodríguez Ríos, follows the issues that a floating village in Venezuela faces with the building of oil fields. MORE +
Business Doc Europe: Cargo acquires world rights on ‘Surviving Sinaga’ MORE +
Variety: Oscar-Nominee Hubert Sauper Takes a Swipe at Teddy Roosevelt, Teases Upcoming Award MORE +
Milwaukee Mag: Q&A With the Director of “Stage: The Culinary Internship” MORE +
Eye For Film: Although it may be a remote arm of the Venezuelan body politic, it mirrors a political and environmental malaise that is coursing through the veins of the country. MORE +
Variety: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela shortlisted for the IDA Film Awards MORE +
Milwaukee Mag: Stage: The Culinary Internship "a worthwhile and interesting look into a truly one-of-a-kind place." MORE +
The Movie Blog: “Once Upon A Time in Venezuela” and the Venezuelan Corruption in Congo MORE +
Vimooz: The Falconer wins Best Outdoor Environmental Feature at BendFilm Festival MORE +
Pix11: All-female Orthodox EMT debuts first ambulance MORE +
Espaces: Crisis and political division. Culture of corruption in Venezuela exposed in documentary MORE +
Twin Cities: The Falconer will screen at the Twin Cities Film Festival MORE +
On Milwaukee: Check out "Stage: The Culinary Internship," a look inside a real pressure cooker of a culinary experience, with 30 interns taking on a nine-month apprenticeship in one of the world's most popular molecular gastronomy restaurants. MORE +
Milwaukee Mag: Stage: The Culinary Internship is the #1 Pick for This Year’s Milwaukee Film Festival MORE +
Medium: Satan & Adam Chronicles: The Ballad of the Blue Bomber (Part One) MORE +
Indiewire: ONCE UPON A TIME IN VENEZUELA will screen at DocNYC 2020 MORE +
Info Media News: Among birds of prey, three wolves and the secrets of the Mongols, the falconer of Abruzzo Giovanni Granati is revealed in a film MORE +
Indyweek: In falconry documentary Overland, two Durham filmmakers explore the modern state of an ancient tradition MORE +
Indiewire: Overland will World Premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival MORE +
The Wrap: Santa Barbara Film Festival selects Overland for their 2020 lineup MORE +
Hollywood Glee: OVERLAND AND THE ART OF FALCONRY MORE +
Miller Meets World: The film is considered a must see by critics attending the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and this episode is a great opportunity to go behind the scenes of the five year cinematic journey of husband and wife filmmakers Revere La Noue and Elisabeth Haviland James and two of the Falconers, Lauren McGough and Giovanni Granati. MORE +
POV Magazine: Hubert Sauper’s Sundance winner is complex and provocative MORE +
Cord Cutters: Lynch: A History New on Sundance Now in October 2020 MORE +
Realscreen: Stage listed as MIPCOM Picks 2020 MORE +
It's Just Movies: Sauper has won more than 50 awards over the course of his career. “Epicenter” will be another big winner. MORE +
IDFA: IDFA selects Epicentro in it's Master's Selection MORE +
Realscreen: BEST IN SHOW FLINT: WHO CAN YOU TRUST? MORE +
Cinesource: “The Falconer” is a richly textured, thoroughly engaging and inspiring film that I whole-heartedly recommend for us adults as well as children. MORE +
Pond Magazine: How a DIY Renaissance Will Save the Music Community MORE +
ADHOC: Brooklyn is Burning Director A.F. Cortes on Heading Straight Into The Fire MORE +
Coming Soon: Lynch: a History coming to Sundance Now Channel October MORE +
Criterion Cast: American Dream coming to Criterion Channel October 6 2020 MORE +
Awards Watch: MVFF presents the latest in documentary filmmaking from heartfelt stories of activism to historical profiles, current events and more. Highlights include the World Premiere of The Falconer, Annie Kaempfer’s compelling portrait of former “corner boy” Rodney Stotts, who learned how to rescue and train predatory birds, rescuing himself from a life of violence MORE +
Deadline: The impressionistic film is a portrait of post-colonial, “utopian” Cuba. Sauper explores a century of interventionism and myth-making together with the people of Havana—who he calls “young prophets”—to interrogate time, imperialism and cinema itself. MORE +
Vimooz: Sundance Winner EPICENTRO Opens in Virtual Cinemas in Late August MORE +
First Showing: Shot and edited by the director himself, it is also a gorgeously handmade work of art. MORE +
Rogers Movie Nation: Sauper has captured the island in the last days of Castroism (Fidel’s death is reported on TV) — lovely, crumbling, defiant and myopic, a “paradise” that has been tormented by the worst human history has had to offer. MORE +
Irish Film Critic: You’re definitely going to enjoy this movie, it captures Cuba and its people in such a beautiful light rarely seen in film. MORE +
Salon: What emerges is a vibrant portrait of a people and a nation that is trying to maintain its own identity without foreign interference. Sauper chatted with Salon about Cuba, the U.S. and his new film, "Epicentro." MORE +
Slant Magazine: It alternates political ponderings with a loose and discursive subtext in which Hubert Sauper explores the idea of Cuba as an island paradise. MORE +
The New York Times: The Oscar-nominated documentarian Hubert Sauper explores vestiges of foreign presence in Cuba, from the ground up. MORE +
Hammer to Nail: Epicentro nevertheless stands as a monumental tribute to a place deserving of better than it normally gets. MORE +
Film School Radio: In his latest film, Hubert Sauper explores a century of interventionism and myth-making together with the extraordinary people of Havana—who he calls “young prophets”—to interrogate time, imperialism and cinema itself. MORE +
Film Forward: Epicentro is an essential watch for anyone interested in present-day Cuba, its future, and its fascinating contradictions. MORE +
Legacy: Sterling Magee (2020), one half of blues duo Satan & Adam MORE +
Film Actually: In Hubert Sauper's latest documentary "Epicentro," utopia is always at the top of his mind as he explores the underlying tensions between capitalist and socialist ideals from the perspective of one of the world's infamous bastions of communism - Cuba MORE +
Roger Ebert: Rather than massage the ego of its progressive target audience, this film stares back at us with a piercingly critical gaze. MORE +
Musee Magazine: Sauper films all of the shots with maximum sensitivity focusing on the vitality and resilience of the inhabitants of this vibrant “utopia”. It is ultimately filled with joy. MORE +
Filmmaker Magazine: “Cinema is Prophecy — It Creates Truth”: Hubert Sauper on his Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, Epicentro MORE +
The Washington Post: Austrian documentarian Hubert Sauper, director of the Oscar-nominated “Darwin’s Nightmare” and “We Come as Friends,” turns his lens on the history of Cuba and the legacy of colonialism in “Epicentro.” MORE +
Screen Slate: Epicentro, set in Havana, is an exploration of the shadowy place that resides in between truth and myth, both their borders diffused and smoky. MORE +
Pen Bay Pilot: In his latest film, Sauper explores a century of interventionism and myth-making together with the extraordinary people of Havana – who he calls "young prophets" – to interrogate time, imperialism and cinema itself. MORE +
Keeping it Reel: “Epicentro” offers a striking look at a specific time in Cuba’s history and how it relates and was impacted by other significant moments of the past. MORE +
Cleveland: The film celebrates the indomitable spirit of the Cuban people -- particularly the children -- who have endured decades of Spanish and American interventionism and economic deprivation. MORE +
Mubi: Movie Poster of the Week: Hubert Sauper’s “Epicentro” MORE +
The Film Stage: Yellow journalism and warfare unfold, and cinema, in its infancy, amplifies and distorts it all. MORE +
NYTimes: Sterling Magee, Bluesman Known as ‘Satan,’ Dies at 84 As half of the duo Satan and Adam, he played blues on the streets of Harlem and later on stages around the world. He died of complications of Covid-19. MORE +
News Week: Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight coming to HBO Max in September 2020 MORE +
Pancakes and Whiskey: On our first episode of our new interview series, Whiskey Wednesdays, we chat with A.F. Cortes about his experience as a concert photographer and the upcoming documentary he’s directing entitled, Brooklyn is Burning, a film documenting the Brooklyn music scene. MORE +
Vital Thrills: Love & Bananas to be released in October on Sundance Now MORE +
Vimooz: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela will screen at the 2020 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival MORE +
Cinema Escapist: “Once Upon a Time in Venezuela” Is an Immersive Dive Into a Vanishing Village MORE +
KPBS: "Once Upon a Time in Venezuela," screens on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020 at the virtual San Diego Latino Film Festival. MORE +
Cascade Blues: Catch The Falconer at the 17th Annual BendFilm Festival Set to Run October 8-25, 2020 MORE +
Brooklyn Vegan: Sterling Magee, the musician who was one half of Satan & Adam, has died at age 84. MORE +
Tampa Bay Times: Sterling Magee, blues man known as ‘Satan,' dies in Gulfport MORE +
The Gabber: Mr. Satan Goes to Heaven MORE +
Arts Fuse: Aside from making generalities about “making good photographs” and “earning a living,” celebrated phototgrapher Elliott Erwitt steadfastly refuses to be drawn out. MORE +
48 Hills: Insert Coin "It’s a serpentine tale of corporate ambition, acquisition, sell-offs, and finally bankruptcies." MORE +
Nylon: Jackson Coming to HBO Max in September MORE +
Slate: Netizens "Good to watch" Coming to Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, and Hulu in September MORE +
7x7: Check out Insert Coin at San Francisco Documentary Fest MORE +
Collider: Too Beautiful heading to HBO Max In September 2020 MORE +
Decider: Jackson New On HBO and HBO Max September 2020 MORE +
News Week: Netizens Coming to HBO Max in September 2020 MORE +
Games Radar: 93Queen New on HBO Max: September 1 MORE +
Fotogramas: 'ONCE UPON A TIME IN VENEZUELA, CONGO MIRADOR', A LOCAL CHRONICLE THAT EXPLAINS UNIVERSAL PHENOMENA MORE +
Atlanta News Now: Atlanta Film Festival announces Sept. events, new format. Once Upon a Time in Venezuela has been selected. MORE +
Queer Asia: INTERVIEW WITH DIR. PJ RAVAL & NAOMI FONTANOS FROM GANDA FILIPINAS MORE +
Cineuropa: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela will screen at DOCAVIV 2020 MORE +
The Washington Post: The story of the men who stood in baseball's shadows for 60 years of apartheid, 1887-1947, will be told by those who lived it. MORE +
Paley Center: A documentary about black baseball players in the Negro Leagues, narrated by James Earl Jones. The program opens with Chet Brewer, a Negro League pitcher, offering an anecdote that will inform the entire documentary. MORE +
Letterboxd: Chronicles the history of Negro Leagues baseball by using rare historical footage and interviews with black baseball greats. MORE +
Westport News: Meet your neighbor... documentarian Craig Davidson MORE +
News Times: "Pitching Man" describes the remarkable Satchel Paige MORE +
Film Daily: Melbourne Documentary Film Festival: ‘Insert Coin’ features an unsung hero MORE +
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DOCNYC: Join Lindsey Lindenbaum at the 2020 edition of the DOC NYC PRO conference, taking place August 5-October 21 MORE +
Medium: FilmHouse Resident Tasha Van Zandt on the Power of Storytelling in a Time of Isolation MORE +
The Country Blues: Hats off to Adam Gussow – A late review of the Netflix documentary ‘Satan and Adam’ MORE +
The New Yorker: This documentary, from 2014, by Johanna Hamilton, unpacks a crucial but little-known episode in modern political and journalistic history. MORE +
Cine Chat: Flint is a moving piece of film, but more importantly a vital document for future generations to study just how something so wrong could happen and continue to happen. MORE +
NBC Sports: "Marshawn Lynch: A history” provides a realistic, yet playful look at Beast Mode’s silence MORE +
Apple Podcast: IDFA 2019 | Interview with David Shields MORE +
Sonic Cinema: Brian sits down with filmmaker David Shields to discuss his thought-provoking documentary, "Lynch: A History," which currently shows on Topic. MORE +
Silver and Black Pride: Marshawn Lynch’s silence was former Raiders’ RB ‘just doing it in his own way,’ documentary director says MORE +
Geek Vibes Nation: Geek Vibes Live Interview: David Shields MORE +
ESPN: NBA Jam esports? Arcade1Up hopes to make it happen MORE +
Detroit Free Press: 'NBA Jam' creator explains his Detroit Pistons fandom, why iconic game cheats Chicago Bulls MORE +
ESPN: How the creator of NBA Jam got his payback against the Bulls MORE +
Argonaut News: The short, “One Thousand Stories,” examines the creation of a mural of San Franciscans by the multifaceted street artist JR. Through the construction of the mural, JR seeks to showcase the diversity and beauty of an ever-dynamic modern American city. MORE +
Film Threat: You get—if not a 360-degree perspective—what feels like an honest, nontheatrical portrait of the artist as an old man. MORE +
Seattle Times: ‘Lynch: A History’ traces the evolution of former Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch and the use of his voice MORE +
Murray Journal: Deondra Brown Of The 5 Browns Seeks To Offer Hope To Child Abuse Survivors MORE +
IDA: Marshawn Lynch: A History, from David Shields, is not a sports documentary about the legendary NFL running back, but rather a study, through 700 clips of archival footage, of Lynch's resistance against the American sports-media complex and its racial oppression. MORE +
Baltimore Sun: offbeat photographer Elliott Erwitt at the Senator Theatre MORE +
Lebanon Express: Virtual Double Screening: “Elliott Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good” and “One Thousand Stories,” 10 a.m., view virtually July 10-17, hosted by Darkside Cinema. MORE +
Lilithia: If you are a fan of the Midway Games or just love arcades in general, then this film is for you. INSERT COIN is the perfect love letter to arcade culture and the incredible time in gaming history that defined a generation, inspiring artists and game designers to push the market forward. MORE +
The Guardian: Monumental...Chilling...Devastating. MORE +
Juxtapoz: For your holiday weekend and beyond, Juxtapoz Magazine is excited to host a double-billed virtual cinema screening of two documentary photography films: Tasha Van Zandt's ONE THOUSAND STORIES: THE MAKING OF A MURAL featuring Winter 2020 cover artist JR MORE +
ABC: In the Drawing Room, Joshua Tsui talks about his new documentary, Insert Coin, which charts the rise of one of the industry's biggest players: Midway Games. MORE +
Moveable Fest: Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 Review: One Systemic Failure Leads to Another in Anthony Baxter’s Gutting Exposé “Flint” MORE +
Laemmle: Elliot Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good: Laemmle Virtual Cinema MORE +
Disappointment Media: ELLIOTT ERWITT - SILENCE SOUNDS GOOD -- A Personal Glimpse into the Photographer's Artistry MORE +
48 Hills: Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu’s Elliott Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good, about the legendary photographer, who’s still active in his nineties. MORE +
Women in Hollywood: Elliott Erwitt has joked that he’s been around so long, most editors think he’s dead. The 91-year-old Magnum photographer has made iconic images of the Civil Rights movement, the Cuban Revolution, not to mention celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, and dogs. MORE +
Musee Magazine: He is living proof of that sound thinking and a delight to spend time with. And by his own standards his life has been a success which he describes as “having the freedom to do what you love whenever you want to”. MORE +
Black Girl Nerds: EXCLUSIVE: Streaming Service Topic Acquires Rights to NFL Star/Activist Marshawn Lynch’s Story MORE +
Unseen Films: ELLIOTT ERWITT - SILENCE SOUNDS GOOD and ONE THOUSAND STORIES: THE MAKING OF A MURAL "What an absolute delight. Highly recommended" MORE +
Cleveland Entertainment: Elliott Erwitt and JR Short "this week’s streaming movies in Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque virtual screening rooms" MORE +
Local News Matters: “Stories” is paired with an hourlong documentary about Elliott Erwitt and his career as a celebrated photographer known for his unique black-and-white images. MORE +
SIFF: Former Seahawk Marshawn Lynch got in trouble as much for what he didn't say as for what he did. Director and UW professor David Shields uses more than 700 video clips and a handful of literary quotes to weave together a collage that forms the underlying biography, but it's also about race and the exploitation of athletes and American society as a whole. MORE +
The Marilyn Report: Meanwhile, one of Marilyn’s most accomplished photographers is also getting the documentary treatment in Elliott Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good. The hour-long film is coming soon to virtual cinemas MORE +
Le Monde: A remarkable documentary highlights the pictures taken by the American soldier during the Second World War. MORE +
HuckMag: Flint: Inside the public health crisis that shook America ‘There’s no justice’ MORE +
The Independent: Elephant training process known as ‘the crush’ revealed in rarely-seen footage MORE +
Starting in July, the Senator will feature the documentaries “Elliott Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good” MORE +
THE COURIER: Latest US documentary by Angus film-maker who took on Donald Trump wins global deal MORE +
MLIVE: Alec Baldwin-narrated Flint water documentary ready to roll, but waiting out COVID-19 MORE +
Variety: Alec Baldwin-Narrated Doc on Flint Water Crisis Picked Up by Cargo Film & Releasing (EXCLUSIVE) MORE +
Women in Hollywood: Stage: The Culinary Internship | FILMS MADE BY WOMEN CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ON STREAMING/VOD MORE +
Vice Versa: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela: A portrait of Congo Mirador, an endangered water town MORE +
Arte Magazine: An unprecedented, intimate and peaceful portrait of the photographer now considered a true legend in the history of photography. His iconic shots tell the great events of history and the small accidents of everyday life with a unique style made of simplicity, immediacy and also a lot of irony. And they are at the same time an incredible cross-section of our society. MORE +
I-D Vice: Narrated by the dulcet voice of Alec Baldwin, Flint follows the political, institutional and environmental aftermath of the crisis still ongoing today and reveals the failures of the government to act then and now. MORE +
The Guardian: "Monumental...Chilling...Devastating." MORE +
Back Seat Media: Flint is an enthralling and absorbing portrait of a community which has been abandoned by its leaders. There’s so much richness within this film, from the citizens of Flint fighting for the right to safe water to the scientists pushing for change. MORE +
One Room With a View: Flint taps into a powerful feeling of anger and bitterness about the widespread exploitation that has occurred in the city. MORE +
Slo Film Fest: Anyone who loves elephants (and honestly, how could you not?) is bound to love this deeply moving documentary by actor/director Ashley Bell. She teams up with Lek Chailert, an amazing conservationist in Thailand, and together they do the near impossible – rescue an abused and elderly elephant from a life of captivity in the Thai tourist trade. MORE +
POV Magazine: ‘Stage’ Offers Tasty Morsels for Foodie Film Buffs MORE +
Movies Move Me: “Once Upon a Time in Venezuela” is a portrait of despair, poverty, and invaluable beings converted into dust by government officials. MORE +
WestWorld: Find out whether you'd be able to take the heat at Mugaritz, one of the world's most renowned restaurants, in the documentary Stage: The Culinary Internship. The film, currently available for streaming through Denver Film's Culinary Cinema program MORE +
Film Threat: Stage: A Culinary Internship is going to “wow” anyone who loves food documentaries. MORE +
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Film Pulse: Becoming Who I Was to be released on Topic June 4th, 2020 MORE +
FernTV: Anabel Rodríguez is a filmmaker who wants to make light of what is truly going on in her country specifically in the area of Congo. Her film Once Upon A Time in Venezuela vritually streaming at Hot Docs this year is an engaging masterpiece about a community of the verge of displacement. MORE +
Unseen Films: If you are a foodie or a food porn addict STAGE is a must. MORE +
El Carabobeno: "Once Upon a Time in Venezuela", relates the last five years of the life of the Congo Mirador, a small fishing community based on Lake Maracaibo, which the economic and environmental crisis has almost made disappear, going from having about 700 inhabitants to only five today MORE +
800 Noticias: They show reality of Lake Maracaibo through a documentary in the US MORE +
Indiewire: Available via Virtual Cinema “Stage: The Culinary Internship” (directed by Abby Ainsworth) Distributor: Cargo Film MORE +
The Gate: Director Jean-Simon Chartier creates an entertaining and thoughtful exercise in contradictions with They Call Me Dr. Miami. MORE +
Andrew Berends: Fellowship winner "Angelos Rallis for his heart-rending portrait of an orphaned girl in Bangladesh searching for her birth father in Mighty Afrin (working title);" MORE +
Shockya: "In this brief documentary writer-director Abby Ainsworth gives her movie audience a look at what goes on in the kitchen of one of the world’s top fifty restaurants, as chef interns with an average age of twenty-four come together to learn technique, of course, but more importantly to put their very souls into the preparation of food." MORE +
Couch Potato Cook: Have you ever dreamed of going behind the scenes of one of the world’s most renowned restaurants? Stage: The Culinary Internship, a new documentary premiering today, lets you do just that. MORE +
Film Festival Today: Stage never loses sight of the passion and the reasons why chefs do what they do under the conditions they do it in. MORE +
Variety: A bustling, absorbing doc...Abby Ainsworth's handsome, diverting documentary presents it as a self-styled ivory tower... MORE +
The Hollywood Reporter: Abby Ainsworth's debut doc looks at a top-tier restaurant's take on the tradition of unpaid kitchen apprenticeships. MORE +
Disappointment Media: STAGE: THE CULINARY INTERNSHIP -- A Fascinating Documentary about Experimental Cuisine MORE +
Do Savannah: "When Montage Cinemas features “Stage: The Culinary Internship,” they will be partnering up with a local restaurant for a dinner-and-a-movie package where ticket purchasers can pick up a full meal from the restaurant to enjoy with their screening." MORE +
The Undefeated: The black falconer: One man’s love for birds in pictures MORE +
Audubon: How Falconry Turned One Man's Life Right-Side Up MORE +
Big Apple Reviews: In this brief documentary writer-director Abby Ainsworth gives her movie audience a look at what goes on in the kitchen of one of the world’s top fifty restaurants, as chef interns with an average age of twenty-four come together to learn technique, of course, but more importantly to put their very souls into the preparation of food. MORE +
Cineuropa: "The latest project by director-producer Angelos Rallis (Shingal, Where Are You? [+]), Mighty Afrin (AR Productions), which also won an award at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s Agora MORE +
Women in Hollywood: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela "Among the titles we’re most looking forward to catching" MORE +
Northern Stars: "Canadian docs in the Special Presentations program include a particularly odd film They Call Me Dr. Miami. It’s from director Jean-Simon Chartier" MORE +
SingleThread: Join us on Friday, May 29th for a Special Dinner and a Movie Night "STAGE: The Culinary Internship" follows a group of aspiring chefs during a nine-month apprenticeship at one of the best restaurants in the world: Mugaritz MORE +
Nonfics: Satan & Adam #43 "The Best Documentaries on Netflix in May 2020" MORE +
CTV News: "A new documentary, "They Call Me Dr. Miami," on VOD as part of Hot Docs at Home on CBC, details the unusual story of a surgeon who balances internet notoriety with his own deeply held Jewish Orthodox values." MORE +
Complex: They Call Me Dr. Miami explores the seeming contradiction between the plastic surgeon’s larger-than-life social media persona and comparatively low-key home life MORE +
POV Magazine: "The film is fascinating to watch as a window into the “Miami culture” that inspires waves of people to flock to the beach and display their bodies in the middle of a pandemic." MORE +
Auburn Lane: THEY CALL ME DR. MIAMI — A GLIMPSE OF THE FAMED PLASTIC SURGEON’S LIFE BEYOND SOCIAL MEDIA MORE +
Journal Metro: The parodoxes of Dr. Miami MORE +
Kanstellation: "“I wanted to hate on you, but I couldn’t, ’cause you did a damn good job with it": Marshawn Lynch discusses Lynch: A History with the film’s director, David Shields" MORE +
Original Cin: In the documentary They Call Me Dr. Miami, Canadian filmmaker Jean-Simon Chartier (Playing Hard) follows Salzhauer from operating room to temple without judgment, holding up his two sides for contemplation. MORE +
Toronto Sun: "Celebrated for his outrageous social media persona, this documentary follows the most famous surgeon in America, Dr. Miami (a.k.a. Michael Salzhauer), as he balances family time with his celebrity clients as the first doctor to livestream Brazilian butt lifts, breast augmentations and other cosmetic procedures." MORE +
Le Devoir: With this complex and captivating portrait, the director wanted to probe the idea of ​​perpetual self-representation. "This desire to want to be loved... In a way, he is us." MORE +
Shockya: "Intriguing, entertaining documentary, one which breaks new ground on the subject of plastic surgery" MORE +
The Star: “They Call Me Dr. Miami,” profiling a plastic surgeon who livestreams butt lifts and breast augmentations, and is followed by millions on Snapchat. MORE +
Venture Beat: Insert Coin, about Midway arcade games in the ’90s. The film was going to debut at SXSW until that event was cancelled. Tsui went to film school before getting into games. He got involved with Midway as the studio began experimenting with using live actors to create digital sprites for titles like Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam. MORE +
Venezuela News: The documentary, which is an x-ray of the current fracture in the country, shows a corrupt society that maintains the powerful while harassing opponents within the town. MORE +
The Guardian: One Thousand Stories "The finished piece is an intricate tapestry of figures who were digitally composited together – bringing people together virtually, a fitting strategy in the epicenter of social media." MORE +
Time: Artist JR Tries to Capture All of San Francisco in a Single Mural MORE +
Exhibitions: One Thousand Stories "The mural aims to be a picture of society, not depicting good and bad, but rather showing that both sides are present in everyone." MORE +
Daily Review Australia: "The film is also about passion, growing old joyfully, connecting with people, and other reassuring stuff that will go down well at the moment." MORE +
La Vidadenos: But it did capture, with captivating beauty, the slow fading of that metaphor of the country it was. His birth as an artist was marked with the precise portrait of that sunset. MORE +
Universal Cinema: Marcel Duchamp "As a biographical documentary, the film is a success to present us with the character’s rich and eventful life." MORE +
Women in Hollywood: Shot over a five-year period in a nuanced, cinematic style, “Tomboy” tells the story of four women drummers, making their mark in a stereotypically masculine field. MORE +
Hammer to Nail: Chartier builds a complex portrait of a consummate professional who nevertheless long ago crossed a moral Rubicon, no matter his religious misgivings MORE +
Sun Sentinel: Ready to make its world premiere on March 12, the documentary “They Call me Dr. Miami” was one of the first public events in Miami to get caught in the cross-hairs of coronavirus. MORE +
Art Burst Miami: Dr. Miami will premiere April 25-26 on the Miami Film Festival’s Vimeo VOD channel for a 48-hour period. MORE +
Film Threat: "...exposed here are the kind of fun lifestyles and flashiness that generally make for fascinating stories and shows." MORE +
Golden Globes: Filmmaker-documentarian-artist-sculptor, Matthew Taylor, is a lifelong admirer of groundbreaking artist Marcel Duchamp, the famous French-born painter, and sculptor who broke down the boundaries between works of art and everyday objects. MORE +
IndieWire: “They Call Me Dr. Miami,” which was slated to premiere at the Miami International Film Festival in March, will instead bow as a Vimeo rental in a partnership between the Miami festival and the city’s Tower Theater MORE +
Israel Internacional: The Miami Dade College Miami Film Festival will present the online world premiere of the Canadian documentary They Call Me Dr. Miami, directed by Jean-Simon Chartier. MORE +
IndieWire: “Jackson” is now available on Vimeo. The abortion-focused documentary will be part of a virtual screening and Q&A event on Sunday, April 26. MORE +
Social Miami: Taking place in Bal Harbor, They Call Me Dr. Miami is a highly entertaining look at Michael’s attempt to balance his role as a traditional family man with his larger-than-life social media persona. Watch the Miami Film Festival online world premiere, as it’s available to rent for 2 nights only, April 25 & 26. MORE +
Miami New Times: Miami Film Festival, but for 48 hours beginning this Saturday, the festival's VimeoVOD channel will air the long-awaited premiere of the documentary They Call Me Dr. Miami, a profile of the Magic City's most visible penis-enhancing plastic surgeon. MORE +
Cult #MTL: They Call Me Dr. Miami, a portrait of an eccentric Orthodox Jewish plastic surgeon will premiere on CBC MORE +
IndieWire: 2017 documentary “Too Beautiful – Our Right to Fight” is now available on Vimeo, Vudu, and iTunes. MORE +
Medium: A conversation with NYT Bestselling Author David Shields on the future of hybrid literature, film, and silent rhetoric MORE +
Screen Daily: Miami Film Festival will present the online world premiere of the Canadian documentary They Call Me Dr. Miami on April 25 and 26. MORE +
Film Pulse: Too Beautiful VOD release April 14th, 2020 MORE +
Boxing News: Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight "A documentary about acceptance, equality and boxing" MORE +
These are the badass chicks of the past, present and future, leading by example, and Tomboy is the perfect paean in their honor. MORE +
CVT: With countless twists and turns throughout the years, the finished product is a triumph of perseverance, and an ode to the lasting power of music. Inspiring, hopeful, and at times, magical, this is one of the most welcome discoveries of 2019. MORE +
Huffington Post: Salaam Dunk is a story about basketball but also friendship, the resilience of youth and a glimmer of hope for Iraq, or at least Kurdistan. MORE +
Film Equals: Director DAVID FINE did a great job weaving both threads into a fascinating story of an underdog team triumphing despite social and cultural adversity. MORE +
Movie Shark: When it comes to the #1 inspirational film of the (LA Film) Fest, look no further than SALAAM DUNK.  MORE +
Variety: A stirring example of the possibilities for young Iraqis outside the country’s war zones. MORE +
IndieWire: Of the majority of images and video to be coming from Iraq right now, SALAAM DUNK stands aside from the pack... While lighter fare than we’ve seen coming out of the Middle East recently, SALAAM DUNK is not a work to be dismissed. MORE +
Yahoo News: "Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible" features appearances from scholars, museum curators and artists who discuss how Duchamp's ideas have influenced the 21st century and modern day. MORE +
Art News: Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible is a smart, searching, and sophisticated consideration of an artist whose specialty was to scramble signals and then venture into scrambling them some more. MORE +
Daze Digital: More than a simple biopic, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible celebrates his genius by acknowledging the inestimable impact Duchamp has had on generations of artists, filmmakers, writers, and more. MORE +
Now Toronto: Watch Jean-Simon Chartier's They Call Me Dr. Miami (May 14), a biopic about celebrity plastic surgeon and reality TV star Dr. Michael Salzhauer. MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: 2020 festival titles to stream via the CBC include Jean-Simon Chartier's They Call Me Dr. Miami, about a celebrity plastic surgeon who livestreams butt lifts and breast surgeries MORE +
CBC: Watch exclusive first-run feature docs from the 2020 Hot Docs Festival at home on CBC MORE +
Moveable Fest: "Tsui offers up a compulsively watchable oral history of the company..." MORE +
Disappointment Media: They Call Me Dr. Miami is an extremely entertaining documentary. MORE +
Behind the Rabbit Productions: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela "A film by a people, for those people, and made by an insider" MORE +
The Guardian: “Love and Bananas” will leave you feeling hopeful and informed. MORE +
Variety: Tomboy filmmaker Lindsay Lindenbaum is keen to remind people that there are many female stories out there … you just have to look. MORE +
Geek Gals: If you grew up playing video games in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Insert Coin is the documentary film for you. MORE +
ARS TECHNICA (CONDENAST): Whenever Insert Coin finally gets in front of audiences, you’ll want to hop in your La Bomba and smash the gas as fast as possible to take this trip down memory lane. MORE +
AFI: Satan and Adam - where to Stream: Netflix and iTunes MORE +
Disappointment Media: "A fascinating dive into gaming history. Tsui gives the film a lot of visual energy." MORE +
Bad Feeling Magazine: "Tsui has put together a great nostalgic look back at an era that completely redefined what video games could be." MORE +
The Hollywood Outsider: “You care about these women and their paths.” MORE +
Disappointment Media: "Lindenbaum is able to create a film that is a passionate love letter to music and creativity." MORE +
Blog Critics: "She paints a rich portrait of the role of women in the music business." MORE +
Red Carpet Crash: Lindenbaum's ability to edit a present and compelling story of art, family, dreams achieved and dashed, from years of new film plus all the archival footage, was no small feat. MORE +
Daily Grind House: Like the best music, it’s as heartbreaking as it is affirming. MORE +
Film Threat: "If you love video games, throw this on and prepare to relive a truly golden era." MORE +
Moveable Fest: The rock and rock spirit is what shines through in “Tomboy,” as distinctive and singular formally as any of the women it follows. MORE +
Film Pulse: Nightcrawlers VOD Release Calendar: March 2nd MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: 'Insert Coin' Details History Behind 'Mortal Kombat,' 'NBA Jam' Arcade Developer (Exclusive) MORE +
Den of Geek: As video games zoom towards the future, the Console Wars and Insert Coin documentaries take a fascinating look back at the industry’s history. MORE +
Slozy at the Movies: One of the things I found fascinating about the documentary is that it puts a new perspective on video games. MORE +
Slash Film: The new documentary Insert Coin, which was meant to play the SXSW film festival, tells their story, and it’s an excellent look back at this exciting period in gaming history. MORE +
Discussing Film: Tsui uses his inside knowledge and resources to make an insightful, yet easy-going dive into the dogma of the arcade industry. MORE +
Adventures in Poor Taste: Insert Coin is a fun look back at a pivotal time in video games. MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: TOMBOY "Being a woman drummer shouldn't be anything unusual." MORE +
LA Weekly: Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible in fact does the impossible — temporarily taming the wild, revolutionary, subversive intentions of this most iconoclastic of icons, just long enough to unpack and contextualize what all the fuss was and still is about. MORE +
Broadway World: "They Call Me Dr. Miami at Miami Film Festival" MORE +
Flaunt: "A new documentary titled, The Art of the Possible outlines his life, philosophy and impact as one of the most influential modernists of the 20th century. Directed by Matthew Taylor and released on March 10th, it is available for viewing both on amazon and iTunes." MORE +
Int Policy Digest: "Mr. Taylor’s film and Mr. Duchamp’s work are quite enlightening as to how the definition of art was expanded, and how that transformation is still impacting today’s artists." MORE +
Film Threat: "Tomboy is bound to entertain, enlighten, and perhaps bring a tear or two to your eye." MORE +
Decider: New Movies on Demand: Marcel Duchamp: Art of the Possible MORE +
101 WRIF: "For my love of music I have watched a number of those but my favorite so far was Satan and Adam. It’s just a crazy story and is a MUST watch!" MORE +
Gen Japan: Becoming Who I Was - "I was moved by the boy’s pure, innocent, and steady behavior. Also, I felt the preciousness beyond words in Urgain’s unconditional love for Padma Angdu" MORE +
Rappler: Lindsay Lindenbaum's documentary Tomboy, about four famous female drummers, was relying on SXSW to secure final funding needed to buy expensive music licensing. MORE +
Screen Anarchy: "They Call Me Dr. Miami does not seek to expose or endorse the plastic surgery industry as a whole, but rather the spectacle of it through the lens of Dr. Miami, and the way in which Salzhaeur has found - or perhaps more accurately, continues to find - ways to exist as both a commercial image and a private man." MORE +
Cyber Cuba: "ONCE UPON A TIME IN VENEZUELA is not only the fable of a small town, condemned to its eclipse, but also an accurate allegation of the falsity of all these processes, self-titled "revolutionary" MORE +
Screen Daily: Thessaloniki Pitching Forum awards - Mighty Afrin MORE +
Business Doc Europe: Mighty Afrin “We have selected a beautiful, yet heart aching, coming of age story. It is a story that deals with the universal themes of identity in a time of turbulence in the world in this young girl’s life” mentioned the jury.” MORE +
Realscreen: "Wolf discusses how he came upon the story of Marian Stokes, a wealthy recluse and activist-turned-archivist who, by taping numerous TV channels 24 hours a day for 35 years, compiled hundreds of thousands of hours of television news and programming on close to 72,000 VHS and Betamax tapes." MORE +
El Siglo: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela "The documentary, which is an x-ray of the fracture that the country is currently experiencing, shows a corrupt society that keeps the powerful while harassing opponents within the town." MORE +
Statesman: “Tomboy”: I wanted to take drum lessons as a kid and might have pushed harder if there’d been a documentary about four women drummers back then. Director Lindsay Lindenbaum spent five years with the musicians, who have at least 60 years experience between them. MORE +
Vents Magazine: Cargo Film & Releasing is excited to announce the first trailer for They Call Me Dr. Miami directed by Jean-Simon Chartier (Playing Hard). The film will have its world premiere at the Miami International Film Festival taking place from March 6-15. MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: "It’s a powerful image of forced exile, of people being eaten out of house and home by foul waters and phony officials. And it’s mirrored by an equally potent image of lightning mysteriously appearing in the sky on certain nights, like a storm just on the horizon that will one day wash it all away." MORE +
The News Tribune: ‘Recorder’ a thoughtful meditation on media and one woman’s obsession with preserving it - 4 stars out of 5 MORE +
Once Upon a Time in Venezuela will screen at Cleveland International Film Festival MORE +
DIIS: "There are choices in the village and all tricks apply, while the nature's breed increases and the water rises. A cinematic report from a country in slow resolution." MORE +
Fog of Truth: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela "It’s a brutal subject, but one that cannot be ignored." MORE +
Hammer to Nail: "Once Upon a Time in Venezuela offers quite the dystopian fairy tale, which we should all heed, lest we fall under a curse of venal mismanagement. No heroes will save us lest we save ourselves, and that is not always possible." MORE +
Realscreen: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela European Premiere at CPH:DOX MORE +
Cineuropa: Interview with Angelos Rallis ”The best documentaries are the ones that use strong creative language and form” MORE +
Berlin: Cargo Film’s Plastic Surgery Doc ‘They Call Me Dr. Miami’ Unveils Trailer (EXCLUSIVE) MORE +
Park City Prospector: "The beautiful cinematography in this film pulls the audience into the world of Congo Mirador." MORE +
Telemundo Utah: "Director Anabel Rodríguez Ríos reflected in the documentary the irreversible consequences of government corruption, while capturing the resilient spirit of those most affected by the deep economic and political crisis in Venezuela." MORE +
NY Times: "The film crackles with the emotional energy and intelligence of its subjects" MORE +
Moveable Fest: “Once Upon a Time in Venezuela” Brings the Thunder. MORE +
Remezcla: "Rodríguez Ríos’s lens also captures the natural beauty of this strange wonderland." MORE +
Michigan Daily: “Once Upon a Time in Venezuela” is important for Venezuela, but equally integral for the whole world. MORE +
Cineuropa: "The documentary, with barely any image shot outside of Congo Mirador, is poignant and speaks volumes about Ríos' exemplary storytelling skills." MORE +
Film Threat: "The reason that Once Upon A Time In Venezuela is so effective is that it explores a microcosm of the events." MORE +
Cinema Rapadura: "Already this year, the Brazilian presence was summarized in the Venezuelan documentary “Once Upon A Time In Venezuela” , by Anabel Rodríguez Ríos, co-produced by the Brazilian Malu Carneiro Campos." MORE +
Rebeller Media: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela "I’ve never seen a film like it at a major North American film festival: both a lovely, poetic piece of documentary cinema that clearly deserved to be there on aesthetic merits and a relentlessly critical look at life under a left-wing Latin American regime that has been the object of praise" MORE +
Miami New Times: "They Call Me Dr. Miami, featured in the Knight Made in MIA Feature Film Award competition." MORE +
City Weekly: "What’s the use of ruling the roost, the film seems to say, when the roost is disappearing out from under you?" MORE +
The Spool: "Once Upon a Time In Venezuela deepens its reach into Congo Mirador as it is. It’s overflowing, it’s sinking, it’s purgatorial. It’s also striking and rife with possibilities, sitting firmly on the edge of the unknown." MORE +
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The Athletic: Author & filmmaker David Shields joins the show to discuss his documentary Lynch: A History, a film about Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch's life and his use of silence in the media as a means of resistance. MORE +
Behind the Rabbit Productions: "Once Upon a Time in Venezuela shows us a culture as it is, which is incredibly rare in modern documentary filmmaking. It’s captivating and moving with the real drama of the life and death of a village hidden from the rest of the world." MORE +
KCPW: filmmaker Anabel Rodriguez Rios talks about her film, ONCE UPON A TIME IN VENEZUELA MORE +
Roger Ebert: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela "Provides the challenging experience that you want from a documentary like this, where a polarizing figure experiences a roller coaster of self-awareness, and a filmmaker’s dedication to and respect for their subject captures every step of it." MORE +
Solzy at the Movies: "Once Upon a Time in Venezuela shows that there are residents willing to lead the fight against corruption. One small step at a time." MORE +
The Sentry: "Stephen Mccoy shot 80 hours of footage of his own life for what became Nightcrawlers. The footage was edited into a jarring non-narrative experience of his life observing homelessness and drug addiction as he falls into it himself." MORE +
Film Festival Today: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela "Political corruption has real-world consequences, always." MORE +
Chicago Reader: "Matthew Taylor’s Marcel DuChamp: The Art of the Possible enjoyably plots out how the legendary 20th century artist unapologetically eschewed traditional modes of aesthetic representation, eventually bringing those modes into the realm of the conceptual." MORE +
Realscreen: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela at Sundance 2020 "Bold, immersive, timely and distinct projects directed by women." MORE +
Noticias de Bariloche: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela portrays the “other side” of the political labyrinth that the Bolivarian Republic lives with its gaze on the charming Congo Mirador neighborhood MORE +
Eye For Film: "Films we're looking out for in the coming days: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela" MORE +
Berekely Side: Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, opening at San Francisco’s Roxie Theater on Friday, Jan. 17 MORE +
Blues Festival Guide: Satan & Adam – The acclaimed tale of an unlikely blues team forged on the streets. MORE +
Remezcla: "Director Anabel Rodríguez Ríos’s striking and mournful ode to her country bears firsthand witness to the irreversible consequences of government corruption, while simultaneously capturing the resilient spirit of those most directly affected by Venezuela’s profound economic and political crises." MORE +
SF Weekly: Recorder at The Roxie "Marion Stokes Captured American Media Through 33 Years of 24/7 Recordings" MORE +
Sundance: "Once upon a time, the Venezuelan village of Congo Mirador was prosperous, alive with fisherman and poets. Now it is decaying and disintegrating–a small but prophetic reflection of Venezuela itself." MORE +
La Opinion: Sundance 2020 "Once Upon A Time in Venezuela by Anabel Rodríguez Ríos, which has production from Venezuela, Brazil, Austria and the United Kingdom." MORE +
Cineuropa: "Anabel Rodríguez Ríos visits the town of Congo Mirador in Once Upon a Time in Venezuela" MORE +
What Not to Doc: "Director Anabel Rodríguez Ríos’s striking and mournful ode to her country bears firsthand witness to the irreversible consequences of government corruption, while simultaneously capturing the resilient spirit of those most directly affected by Venezuela’s profound economic and political crises." MORE +
Version Final: “Once Upon A Time in Venezuela” will compete in Sundance 2020 MORE +
El Nacional: Once Upon A Time in Venezuela "The misery of a people of Zulia will make history in Sundance" MORE +
Variety: Cargo Film Snaps Up U.S. Rights to Sundance Contender ‘Once Upon a Time in Venezuela’ MORE +
Behind the Rabbit Productions: "This documentary has everything you’d want in a movie, twists and turns, emotional moments, and compelling characters. Satan & Adam is a testament to the universal language of music and how it can bring people together. " MORE +
The Stranger: See a documentary about the life and career of professional American football player Marshawn Lynch (the running back for the Seattle Seahawks). MORE +
The Root: Noted Philosopher Marshawn Lynch Explains Self-Care in 90 Seconds or Less MORE +
Modern Times: AMERICA: Through the eloquence of silence, echo, and mimicry as key tools of defiance, American football star Marshawn Lynch weaves his legacy. MORE +
Village Soup: Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project "2020 CIFF Selects season opens with festival favorite" MORE +
Tribeza: AtCentral: The Silence Of Marshawn Lynch MORE +
The Arts Fuse: Satan & Adam "...lovingly and heartbreakingly documented" MORE +
Encore: Satan & Adam "This documentary tells their story — performing together, facing tensions, finding friendship, a bond that deepens over many decades. No treacle, I promise." MORE +
Medium: Q&A with author and film director David Shields MORE +
Frontrunner Magazine: Silence as Protest – Filmmaker David Shields on Lynch: A History MORE +
ICA: UK Premiere of Marshawn Lynch: A History on Tuesday January 7th MORE +
Medium: Social Impact Heroes: “How Netizens Filmmaker, Cynthia Lowen, is helping to battle and prevent online harassment” MORE +
Realscreen: Best of the Tens: BECOMING WHO I WAS MORE +
Detroit Press: Recorder will screen at Detroit Film Theatre this weekend MORE +
Hyperallergic: "Lynch feels almost Situationist in nature, which is perhaps the most fitting way to approach Lynch’s sometimes impenetrable persona." MORE +
Magnum Photos: "Erwitt’s photography unfailing meets this criteria and the film conveys just how many iconic images he has made over the years" MORE +
The New Yorker: Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project in 'The Best Movies of 2019' MORE +
LA Review of Books: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES | SPOTIFY | SOUNDCLOUD | Filmmaker Matt Wolf joins co-hosts Kate and Medaya to discuss his new documentary Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project. MORE +
BFI: 'Marshawn Lynch: A History' five of the best films at IDFA 2019 MORE +
Deadline: STAGE: The Culinary Internship at Palm Springs Film Festival MORE +
The Art Newspaper: "Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window follows filmmaker Andrew Hevia as he fumbles his way through the often exclusionary art world" MORE +
IDFA: David Shields over Marshawn Lynch: A History MORE +
Deadline: Oscar-Contending Doc ‘Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project’ Reveals “Reclusive Activist” Behind Massive News Archive MORE +
Cinema 365: Recorder "Fans of docs in general are going to like this" MORE +
Smithsonian Year of Music: Ruben Blades Is Not My Name panel and discussion Thursday, December 12, 2019 MORE +
Film Wax Radio: Filmmaker Barbara Kopple makes her 3rd appearance on the podcast. MORE +
Project Nerd: "The seemingly detached transition from scene to scene is pretty magical. There aren’t any twists or turns, but the evolution from one scene to the next is often as abrupt as it is segmented." MORE +
Slash Film: ‘Nightcrawlers’ Review: A Documentary About the Horrors of Addiction and Homelessness [Denver Film Festival] MORE +
ION Cinema: " Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window is a fleeting impression of urban and existential displacement, a hybrid of documentary form, travel diary and vlog inspirations." MORE +
Screenfish: "Without all these tapes, much of the record would have been lost. Stokes’s hoarding of TV for thirty years may turn out to be a true treasure." MORE +
Pop Culture Beast: Movie Review: “Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project” profiles a VHS idealist MORE +
Film School Radio: rector Matt Wolf joins us to talk about the librarian / activist / archivist / free thinker Marion Stokes, and how her unusual obsession has provided us with a window into an era of rapidly evolving news. MORE +
Moveable Feast: Interview: Matt Wolf on How History is Made with “Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project” MORE +
LA Times: "“Recorder” closes with how one woman’s private, visionary madness eventually found its digital home, the forward-thinking optimism behind the endeavor is like its own happy-at-last ending for a difficult soul." MORE +
IDFA: Marshawn Lynch: A History wins Special Jury Mention MORE +
Film Comment: "in Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (2019), his portrait of a woman who between 1979 and her death in 2012 obsessively taped TV news twenty-four hours a day, amassing a “secret archive” of 70,000 tapes." MORE +
VG: It started with boy strikes - then he went too far: See the documentary "Nightcrawlers" MORE +
Eye of Photography: Monroe Gallery of Photography presents “La Dolce Vita”, a major exhibition of more than 40 photographs by Tony Vaccaro. MORE +
Philadelphia Inquirer: Captivated by content, or captive to it — the film, through Stokes, takes a timely look at the fine line between the two. MORE +
Atlas Obscura: The Remarkable Story of a Woman Who Preserved Over 30 Years of TV History MORE +
Little White Lies: "An urgent, intimate tribute to an unsung modern folk hero with a prophetic understanding of the way that news media can be both a tool for revolution and a weapon of ignorance." MORE +
Xposer Magazine: This story was powerful on many levels, to watch someone fall down the rabbit hole and into an addiction without the capability of pulling out of it was rough. MORE +
Leave the Bus Through the Broken window wins Spirit of EOFF Award MORE +
Cinemalogue: "That even-handed approach seems appropriate for a reclusive subject whose historical collection offers a fresh perspective today." MORE +
Musee Magazine: "Matt Wolf is surely a master distiller to be able to take this much raw info and craft it into a comprehensible whole." MORE +
Women and Hollywood: Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project "Her work was crazy but it was also genius, and she would pay a profound price for dedicating her life to this visionary and maddening project." MORE +
Frieze: "With Recorder, Matt Wolf has made one of this year’s essential documentaries. It also serves as something of a commentary on its own form, arriving at the end of a decade that has seen an explosion in archival documentary filmmaking." MORE +
Roger Ebert: "Stokes' work is an urgent reminder of the importance of archives, the importance of preserving those archives so that they can be made available, open to all." MORE +
Criterion Cast: "A thrilling portrait of a woman collecting the history of the world as she lived through it through the very media we all engaged with, this is a powerful and truly important documentary feature." MORE +
NPR: By preserving the past with her tapes, Stokes illustrated patterns and details that give insight into what to expect from society, politics and the media. MORE +
Art Forum: MATT WOLF TALKS ABOUT RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT MORE +
The Wrap: Compelling Portrait of a Nation Through the Lens of an Unknown Citizen MORE +
NY Times: "Matt Wolf’s documentary shows how one woman captured history by recording television news." MORE +
Film Becomes Her: "These are the stories we need to know about, those we ignore and forget, not those that we see on the screens around us every day. We get to see beauty in the mundane, music made from nothing as the instruments fight a dangerous, costly battle with addiction." MORE +
Medium: Katie Couric: ‘Netizens’ filmmaker Cynthia Lowen shares her best tips for online safety MORE +
Boston Globe: At Boston International Kids Film Festival, summer camp is much more than just a vacation MORE +
Rose Dor: Instant Dreams nominated for the 2019 Rose d’Or Awards MORE +
The Daily: David Shields' film is a love letter to an athlete who fought against society’s desire to manipulate him MORE +
Aktivist: "Leave the bus ..." proves that the most important is not the budget, but the idea. MORE +
Boulder Weekly: Rarely has depravity been presented this bluntly — and poetically. MORE +
Iowa City Press: Witching Hour 2019: David Shields brings Marshawn Lynch documentary to Iowa City MORE +
American Film Festival: "Armed with a small camera and a huge amount of irony, Hevia tries to fight confusion in an alien town, heals a broken heart and tries to get accustomed to living in an expensive broom closet. All festivalgoers, who do not always have their fingers on the pulse, will find themselves in this honest glance at millenials." MORE +
Alumni Berkeley: Silent Star: Marshawn Lynch a No-Show in New Film About His Life MORE +
MCTVVermont: MNFF 2019: On-stage Conversation with David Shields MORE +
Miami New Times: "A sort of magical perspective opens up in Hevia’s honesty about his experience of trying to make this documentary about art. " MORE +
WNYC: Filmmaker Cynthia Lowen joins us to discuss her new documentary, “Netizens,” about women and online harassment. The documentary is available for pre-order on Apple and will be available beginning October 22 on Amazon, Google Play, X-Box, and Apple. MORE +
Realscreen: Marshawn Lynch doc among IDFA 2019 selections MORE +
IDFA: The overwhelming babel of media images of the American football player collide with the silence of Lynch, which he deploys as a form of resistance against racial oppression of the sports system and society. MORE +
Ms. Magazine: Cynthia Lowen Puts Cyber Harassment in Focus in “Netizens” MORE +
Jewish Standard: The film “93Queen,” directed by Paula Eiselt of Teaneck, now is available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu, and also on DVD. MORE +
IDA: Reclaiming Niche: Behind the Making and Marketing of '93Queen' MORE +
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Miami New Times: Netizens Documentary Shows Miami Women Fighting Online Harassment MORE +
LoHud: 'Satan & Adam': Blues documentary about an unlikely alliance includes a Congers native MORE +
Splash Magazine: “Netizens” Preview – Powerful and Very Important MORE +
Dallas Post: High Tech Soul: The Creation of Techno reveals the genre's true origins, which can be traced back to Detroit. MORE +
Love & Bananas wins Audience Award at Green film Festival MORE +
Chimera Obscura: “What the movie tries to do is shut up and listen to Marshawn Lynch’s silence.” MORE +
Give and Take: listen to Marshawn Lynch: A History with David Shields MORE +
NY Daily News: Marshawn Lynch’s silence speaks volumes. That’s the premise of a new documentary, “Lynch: A History,” which compiles a dizzying barrage of more than 700 video clips from news reports, football games, commercials and interviews to make the case that the NFL running back is both a beast on the gridiron and protest icon. MORE +
Sports Literate: "I’d give Marshawn Lynch: A History two thumbs up for a rollicking ride and all its potential to make you stop and think." MORE +
Mayfair Theatre: Instant Dreams An extraordinary Polaroid trip. MORE +
Datebook: Marshawn Lynch ‘History’ builds impressionistic profile of a true Oakland original MORE +
The Guardian: "After grappling with a ‘psycho ex’ of her own, lawyer Carrie Goldberg takes a stand for victims of online harassment, deepfakes and revenge porn" MORE +
NY Times: Netizen's Carrie Goldberg "Fighting Harassers and Stalkers on the Web, in Court and in Print" MORE +
East Bay Express: Shields places Lynch among a crowded pantheon of East Bay rebels, artists, and conscientious star athletes, peppering the action with vintage interviews of figures as disparate as Curt Flood and Bobby Seale, Bill Russell and Angela Davis, Philip K. Dick and Alice Walker, Gary Payton and Ryan Coogler, and many others. MORE +
Carrie Goldberg of Netizens in The Cut MORE +
KCRW Press Play Podcast: The silent political activism of Marshawn Lynch. MORE +
Roca Press: March of the White Elephants A documentary on the real impact of FIFA World Cup development on host communities MORE +
East Bay Post: It's an Oakland thing MORE +
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Marshawn Lynch documentary coming soon — ‘It’s an Oakland thing’ MORE +
Realscreen: Intent to Destroy nominated for Outstanding Historical Documentary Emmy MORE +
PlayerFM: David Shields on his Documentary- Lynch: A History MORE +
PodBean: Willem Baptist is a Dutch filmmaker and documentary-director whose latest film is Instant Dreams. Instant Dreams is a feature documentary about the fascination and love for Polaroids. MORE +
Build Series: ASHLEY BELL, LEK CHAILERT, JOHN MCCARTHY & RODDY TABATABAI SPEAK ON THEIR DOCUMENTARY, 'LOVE & BANANAS' MORE +
Plutonic Magazine: Those days may not come back in our lifetime but, damn, was New York culture’s last gasp a great time to live through. As “Satan & Adam”, this unlikely duo was but one of the great ethical and artistic stories of that era. MORE +
Blues Powr: If you haven’t yet watched the Satan & Adam documentary on Netflix or elsewhere, we highly recommend you make a point to do so when you have the chance. MORE +
Bleacher Report: Watch Highlights of 'Lynch: A History' on Marshawn Lynch's Media Silence Protest MORE +
Outsports: “F(l)ag Football” follows three teams on their way to the National Gay Flag Football Championships and looks at the camaraderie and pride they’ve developed along the way. MORE +
OZY: WAS AMERICA AFRAID OF MARSHAWN LYNCH? MORE +
Huck Mag: Lynch: A History, is a breathtaking look at race, masculinity, media, and protest at the turn of the millennium. MORE +
Buffalo News: Provocative film sheds light on Marshawn Lynch's history of silence MORE +
Gadget: Stream of the Day: Satan & Adam – Documentary on Netflix MORE +
UNP Blog: Shields observes how Lynch’s initial small acts of defiance become increasingly disruptive to the outside masses, transforming the celebrated player into a “more threatening kind of symbol.” MORE +
The Stranger: Dutch filmmaker Willem Baptist sets out to tell the story of the Polaroid and delve into its unkillable appeal. MORE +
Clevescene: Satan & Adam @ the Cleveland Museum of Art MORE +
Cinesource: Satan & Adam: The Epic Odysseys of Sterling Magee and Adam Gussow MORE +
From the Heart Productions: "The sensation of this story, and the expertise the producing team brought to its cinematic telling make Satan & Adam an absolute must see." MORE +
Hammer to Nail: "LEAVE THE BUS THROUGH THE BROKEN WINDOW is a wonderfully magical title for a wonderfully magical film. " MORE +
The Examiner: "Call Her Ganda is a thought-provoking film that will have audiences thinking and discussing the impact, effectiveness and questionable necessity of U.S. military presence in not just the Philippines but the 150 other countries it occupies." MORE +
Cinema Seventy-Six: "Nightcrawlers, with all it's inherent messiness, depicts the cesspool of addiction, the dirt and grim of it, as well as the real people stuck in its clutches. It's not an easy watch, but it's a story worth telling in all it's ugliness, especially as more and more find themselves engulfed in the horror everyday." MORE +
Madrid Times: "This documentary shows us the incredible and exciting story of a group born on the street and triumphs on stages around the world breaking all the racial schemes of the time." MORE +
Fresh Fiction TV: "The magic of SATAN & ADAM is the power to keep walking forward. Balcerek captures the setbacks that befall most musical acts to show how the two men were able to transcend dissimilar backgrounds and follow their passions, ruminate on individual strengths and weaknesses. And through that, they found the ultimate truth: The blues never leave you." MORE +
Kinoscope: Andrew Hevia’s Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window (2019) is the sort of non-fiction film that catches the eye of programmers and critics. MORE +
The Human Society: Love & Bananas won a Genesis Award for Outstanding Documentary Film MORE +
Philadelphia Weekly: Street walker: Filmmaker and former member of Philly’s homeless Kevin Ronca returns to the strip with “Nightcrawlers” MORE +
Film 89: "a moving portrait of two remarkable men who crossed boundaries, how they triumphed, suffered and survived, and became unlikely life-long friends. " MORE +
Una Palabra: "a precious gift for music lovers." MORE +
RTE: "Satan and Adam: Remember that old black musician on the street in Harlem in U2's Rattle and Hum singing about Freedom? You might have missed the young preppy-looking white kid playing harmonica beside him. This documentary tells their extraordinary story." MORE +
Mail Tribune: "It is the story of friendship, compassion, determination, redemption and the pure love of the blues." MORE +
The New Yorker: "The film’s relentless rhythm overwhelms and overpowers you, as random acts of terror, across time and space, reveal themselves as a pattern. It’s a gradient of American carnage." MORE +
Criterion: “the detours in director Andrew Hevia’s documentation turn personal and heartbreaking.” MORE +
Recovery Unplugged: SATAN AND ADAM DOCUMENTARY UNDERSCORES THE INTENSE HEALING AND UNIFYING POWER OF MUSIC MORE +
Rock My World: "Showing that music really can heal, it begins at a time when racial tensions were looming in NYC, and against all odds, a black street musician based in Harlem bonds with a white musician over their love for music, and the result is documentary magic." MORE +
Murmurs From The Balcony: An Interview with David Shields MORE +
Art Forum: Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window, a mysterious, tragicomic documentary-within-a-documentary about an American man’s anguished attempt to chronicle Art Basel Hong Kong 2016. MORE +
Filmmaker Magazine: "Part travelogue, part essay film, and, in one surprising moment, part karaoke musical, Hevia’s doc is on-the-fly filmmaking that mirrors the all-encompassing attitude of its maker." MORE +
The Sunbreak: Best Documentary LYNCH: A HISTORY MORE +
The Nation: On Marshawn Lynch: Radical Iconoclast MORE +
Nonfics: The 50 Best Documentaries Streaming on Netflix This June #2 Satan & Adam MORE +
The Last Thing I See: "Lynch: A History offers an engaging portrait of the man, the athlete, his life, and his time, as well as a fascinating experiment in narrative craft, form, and construction." MORE +
ABC10: Marshawn Lynch documentary highlights his silence as protest MORE +
Washington News: Documentary films by UW faculty members Jeff Shulman, David Shields to screen MORE +
Geeks media: "Lovers of experimental documentary and old school photography will love the work of director Willem Baptist." MORE +
Quelle Movies: "Directed by Willem Baptist, Instant Dreams is a moody and atmospheric eulogy to a lost technology." MORE +
Black Girl Nerds: "Instant Dreams is 91 minutes of a shared obsession between the individuals with Polaroid film." MORE +
K5 News: "A new documentary called ‘Lynch: A History’ explores the silence of legendary Seattle Seahawks player Marshawn 'Beastmode' Lynch." MORE +
Edge of Sports: On Marshawn Lynch: Radical Iconoclast MORE +
KUOW: What to expect from the new Marshawn Lynch documentary MORE +
My Northwest: "How Seahawks legend Marshawn Lynch ‘weaponized’ silence." MORE +
Seattle Screen Scene: "...one of the most entertaining films of this year’s Seattle International Film Festival." MORE +
Seattle PI: "The result is almost jazz-like: pulling together more than 700 video clips and a handful of literary quotes." MORE +
The Gabber: Gulfport’s Blues Pioneer Celebrates Birthday MORE +
The Twin Geeks: Lynch: A History evokes a great image of a leader who does not have to speak to carry his message. MORE +
Keeping it Reel: “Satan & Adam” is a fascinating documentary that’s as infectious as its subjects." MORE +
Play Repeat: "Shot and documented incredibly for more than 30 years, Satan & Adam is not only for music lovers, but really for anybody with a heart. This is a beautiful story told very well and cannot be strongly recommended enough. " MORE +
Lynch in K5News MORE +
My Northwest: "Expect to be dazzled by Shield’s insight into Lynch’s rhetoric." MORE +
Seattle Mag: "Lynch: A History A collage of clips—sans interviews or talking heads—make up this impressionistic portrait of former Seahawk Marshawn Lynch, focusing on his unique strategies for handling the media." MORE +
Triblive: ’Go see the movie’ MORE +
Forbes: 'Love and Bananas': A Celebrity Finds Her Voice In Elephants' Plight MORE +
Tampa Bay Times: "A screening of new documentary Satan and Adam celebrates the life and music of Gulfport blues legend Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee and his blues partner Adam Gussow. " MORE +
Princeton: "Satan and Adam, a Mississippi bluesman and a Jewish Ivy League graduate, are an unlikely duo, whose deep friendship is apparent throughout the documentary, yet the film does not shy away from issues of race, gentrification, art, and anger." MORE +
Two Oh Six: 'Lynch A History' One of films not to be missed at SIFF MORE +
The Sun Break: "Nothing made me jump to attention with shock and delight more than running across Lynch: A History". MORE +
Blues Blast Magazine: "Kudos to Director V. Scott Balcerek for a masterful effort in telling the Satan & Adam story in all of its complexity, in a straight-forward fashion that thoroughly engages viewers without any appeals to maudlin sentiments." MORE +
The Stranger: "Lynch: A History is not just a portrait of the most interesting and enigmatic Seahawks superstar, but is yet another reminder of how deeply the pathology of white supremacy is rooted in the history of this country and in the everyday lived experience of celebrities we think we know." MORE +
Third Coast Review: "The film reveals a heartwarming tale of discovering the importance of music, friendship and the transformative power of both" MORE +
The Register-Herald: "Although they came from completely different worlds, these two musicians show the unifying power of music through their lifelong bond." MORE +
Bleacher Report: Watch Trailer for 'Lynch: A History' on Marshawn Lynch's Media Silence Protest MORE +
iheart: Documentary About Marshawn Lynch's Media Resistance To Premiere This Summer MORE +
Memphis Flyer: Satan & Adam at Crosstown Arts MORE +
Baller Alert: New Documentary About Marshawn Lynch’s Media Resistance Set To Premiere This Summer MORE +
Indiewire: "An at once wryly humorous and emotionally naked record of alienation in the age of globalization, Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window turns an artist’s personal crisis into a brilliantly meta self-portrait." MORE +
Gulfport To Honor Local Blues Legend Sterling Magee; Screen Film MORE +
Austin Chronicle: "The alchemy of human connection defies predictable explanation." MORE +
CS Monitor: ‘Satan & Adam’ is an upbeat take on two blues outliers MORE +
Jazziz: Running with the Devil: New Documentary Traces Harlem Blues Duo Satan & Adam MORE +
Creative Loafing: Blues pioneer Sterling ‘Mister Satan’ Magee screens documentary in Gulfport MORE +
SHOCK YA!: The stunning trajectory... between two distinct artists, including both their notable successes and emotional challenges, is enthrallingly captured.. in Satan & Adam." MORE +
LA Times: The oddball musical bromance between a black Mississippi-born blues singer and a Jewish grad school dropout... is poignantly examined in...truly soul-stirring “Satan & Adam.” MORE +
CBS Digital: "I see two people and it’s two people that seemingly come from two different worlds. It kind of didn’t make sense, but the music did.” MORE +
The Interro Bang: "A doc that will move and inspire. Satan & Adam: The Music Will Take You Higher opens in New York this weekend and in select theaters starting April 17th." MORE +
Film School Radio: Mike Kaspar’s interview with V. Scott Balcerek. MORE +
CHEDDAR TV: "The New film 'Satan & Adam' is celebrating the power of music, and the bonds that form when artists collaborate and worlds collide. " MORE +
ATU2: "If you appreciate the blues or just want to witness a pleasant real-life “buddy” movie, Satan & Adam will be right up your alley." MORE +
Washington Square News: “Satan & Adam” understands that music isn’t some magic bullet, but it reminds us that there exists more to unify than to divide. MORE +
Film Threat: Inspired and inspiring, Satan & Adam will make you thank the heavens for this legendary duo. MORE +
SOLZY AT THE MOVIES: "It speaks to the power that music has in the creation of strong bonds between people." MORE +
Film-Forward: "Satan & Adam is a bittersweet film that fulfills its two main purposes: to introduce brilliant performers to a new audience and reaffirm why they matters for those who are already in the know." MORE +
Deadline: Satan & Adam from Cargo Film & Releasing at Village East in New York MORE +
NYBLUEPRINT: "he separation would test both mens' courage, and their journey to find each other again became a tale of tragedy, survival and miraculous rebirth. " MORE +
Brooklyn Vegan: Satan & Adam documentary tracks NYC street musicians turned U2 collaborators (opening in theaters) MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: "Satan & Adam makes for fascinating viewing." MORE +
NY Times: "Like the blues, there’s real pain here, mixed with real beauty." MORE +
Polygon: Candid documentary about For Honor’s development hits Netflix MORE +
Motherboard: "A drama-packed and necessary look at the toll that making a video game takes on those who do the work" MORE +
North Jersey: Feature Interview with Adam Gussow MORE +
Knockturnal: "The film will entertain and draw in the viewer on many interesting and provocative levels." MORE +
Red Carpet Crash: "Satan & Adam pulls you in with good music and warmth, but keeps you intrigued by putting you on an emotional rollercoaster." MORE +
Eye For Film: "This documentary, comprised of footage recorded over a 20 year period, charts the history of that friendship and musical act whilst searching for Mr Satan.. and bringing the two together again with results that nobody could then have predicted." MORE +
Talk House: "Harlem gave me a chance to learn what it feels like when music does that." MORE +
NH Union Leader: "Harmonica player Adam Gussow will lead a post-film discussion about his unlikely friendship and collaboration with legendary blues guitarist Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee, who once played with Marvin Gaye and James Brown." MORE +
Hanahan Herald: "At a time when America seems almost irrevocably split along an ugly tangle of ideological lines, “Adam & Satan” offers something of a salve; as much as this is a story about music, it is more a parable of unity forged where most people might have only seen an abyss, of two human beings seeing what united them, rather than what set them apart." MORE +
Central Maine: “Satan and Adam” tells the story of the musical partnership between Sterling “Satan” McGee and Adam Gussow, an unlikely street-musician duo from New York. The movie covers more than two decades of their odyssey. MORE +
Vineyard Gazette: "Satan and Adam traces the rise of an unexpected duo in the 1990s: street musician Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee and Ivy League intellectual Adam Gussow, whose love of blues harmonica and Mr. Satan’s guitar playing was stronger than his fear of going to all-black Harlem during times of racial tension." MORE +
The Movie Box: Produced by Oscar-nominated veteran film producer Frank Marshall (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Seabiscuit, Jurassic World), "Satan & Adam" is being released in New York on April 12th and in Los Angeles on April 19th, with other cities to follow. MORE +
Oakland Magazine: Albany FilmFest has assembled an alluring, all-ages lineup including Scott Balcerek’s Harlem-set, black-Jewish musical mystery tour MORE +
KQED: This year’s Albany Film Festival offers another chance to catch a trio of vivid and poignant feature-length portraits...including Satan & Adam MORE +
Daily Camera on Satan & Adam: "The story of one of the more remarkable musical collaborations of recent vintage is at the heart of "Satan & Adam... A parable of unity forged where most people might have only seen an abyss." MORE +
Listen Magazine UK: "Shot and documented incredibly for more than 30 years, Satan & Adam is not only for music lovers, but really for anybody with a heart. This is a beautiful story told very well and cannot be strongly recommended enough." MORE +
Americana Film Fest: "Some critics already refer to Satan & Adam as the heir of the beautiful Sugar Man... It is undeniable that Satan & Adam is one of the most exciting and surprising documentaries of the year." MORE +
Journal of Music: "SATAN & ADAM captures a journey of friendship, heartbreak and the transformative power of music." MORE +
IBJ on SATAN & ADAM: "Absorbing... A three-decade relationship is punctuated with background revelations, a life-changing encounter with U2’s The Edge, and plot twists aplenty." MORE +
Hindsight2020: Satan & Adam's Adam Gussow interviewed MORE +
Travel Boulder on Satan & Adam: "A documentary about an unlikely musical duo." MORE +
Chicago Reader: "Niles handles the subject of sexual abuse forthrightly but not pruriently, balancing his consideration of trauma with a no less fascinating study of the Browns’ careers as classical pianists." MORE +
BBC features NETIZENS subject: Meet the Lawyer Fighting 'Revenge Porn' MORE +
Connect Savannah: V Scott Balcerek Interviewed ahead of Satan & Adam screening MORE +
Hollywood Reporter on THE 5 BROWNS: "A powerful portrait of its subjects who overcame severe adversity and continue to make music." MORE +
Hammer to Nail: "Cinema as therapy... a cathartic chronicle of a terrible crime and the recovery of its victims." MORE +
National Black Guide: "Engaging... Ben Niles handles a very difficult subject with just the right balance of probing and sensitivity." MORE +
5 BROWNS in Women and Hollywood: Why My Sisters and I Shared Our Story of Childhood Sex Abuse in a Documentary MORE +
NY Times on The 5 Browns: "Confounding... [pulls tight] to devastating emotional effect" MORE +
Steinway.com on THE 5 BROWNS: "Heavy, but uplifting... a documentary reveals the pain and resilience of sibling pianists." MORE +
The Lost Arcade in NY Times: Chinatown Fair has survived generations of gaming innovation, new players and rising rents in New York. MORE +
El Nuevo Herald on RUBEN BLADES IS NOT MY NAME: Best Alternative Cinema in Miami MORE +
POV Magazine: "Top 10 Docs of 2018 includes CALL HER GANDA... An important and extremely resonant addition to the world of true crime documentary." MORE +
Washington Post: CALL HER GANDA on Foreign Correspondents Docs to Watch list MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: Nine Foreign Pics including Ruben Blades is Not My Name Eligible for Doc Feature Nom Under New Rules MORE +
RTS Play: STRAY BULLET director Jean-Cosme interviewed MORE +
Escribiendocine on RUBEN BLADES IS NOT MY NAME: "An intimate and personal portrait of the singer, composer, musician, actor, lawyer, and Panamanian politician" MORE +
The Eye of Photography: Monroe Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe presents an exhibition of more than 50 photographs by Tony Vaccaro MORE +
AMNY: "Latin American icon Ruben Blades' career spans more than 50 years and isn’t over yet." MORE +
KPFA: "Critically acclaimed director Abner Benaim takes us on a journey through Ruben’s 50 year career." MORE +
AFI Blog: "An intimate look at the life and musical legacy of living legend Rubén Blades, who spearheaded the New York Salsa revolution in the 1970s, advancing Latinx identity, unity and empowerment on the international stage." MORE +
Screen Anarchy on RUBEN BLADES IS NOT MY NAME: "A celebration of Blades the Musician. His talent and contribution to the genre of salsa cannot be underestimated." MORE +
PATCH: "Star-studded documentary offers an intimate portrait of Ruben Blades, revealing a living legend and his struggle to come to terms with his legacy." MORE +
Fort Worth Weekly: "Enlightening... The best documentary I saw during the festival was Rubén Blades Is Not My Name, about the politically conscious salsa-music legend." MORE +
LA Times on RUBEN BLADES IS NOT MY NAME: Panamanian filmmakers try to get a foothold in Hollywood while building a film industry at home MORE +
Deadline: RUBEN BLADES IS NOT MY NAME wins 24 Beats Per Second Audience Award at SXSW MORE +
NBC News on RUBEN BLADES IS NOT MY NAME: After 25 albums, 17 Grammys and 30 films, Blades has become a respected elder statesman of Latino arts and culture MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: Oscars - Panama Selects 'Ruben Blades Is Not My Name' for Foreign-Language Category MORE +
Re Mezcla: The Usually Private Rubén Blades Opens Up About His Life for a New Documentary MORE +
Variety: "Much-lauded music doc RUBEN BLADES IS NOT MY NAME is getting a rare multi-territory release across Latin America" MORE +
Get Reel Movies on Ruben Blades is Not My Name: SXSW 2018 Interview with director Abner Benaim MORE +
Billboard: 'Rubén Blades is Not My Name' to Open New York Latino Film Festival MORE +
Jeaucapt on PLAYING HARD: "Poignant" MORE +
Aleteia: The Five Most Inspiring Documentaries of 2018 includes Summer in the Forest MORE +
JB Spins on HORN FROM THE HEART: "Anderson does right by Butterfield... He keeps things moving along briskly, but never skimps on the music." MORE +
Blog Talk Radio: PaulXBooth reviews HORN FROM THE HEART MORE +
Indiewire: Report on Specialty Box Office includes HORN FROM THE HEART MORE +
955KLOS: Director of HORN FROM THE HEART interviewed MORE +
Reel Chicago on HORN FROM THE HEART: "A detailed and passionate tribute... Anderson amplifies the harmonica player’s influence on the nation’s cultural transformation from acoustic folk to psychedelic improvisation during the 1960s." MORE +
Letterboxd on Satan & Adam: "What they ended up producing was nothing less than magical." MORE +
Red Carpet Crash on HORN FROM THE HEART: "Even grainy concert footage and muffled audio [does] nothing to offset the raw energy and power of Paul Butterfield." MORE +
Third Coast Review on HORN FROM THE HEART: "Music lovers should consider this a must-see." MORE +
Film Journal on HORN FROM THE HEART: In-depth look at harmonica player Paul Butterfield, who bridged the gap between blues and rock in the late 1960s. MORE +
Chicago Sun Times: Anderson does the Butterfield legacy a service with “Horn From the Heart.” MORE +
Vulture: Polaroid Historian writes about being a subject in Willem Baptist's Instant Dreams MORE +
Deadline: Ashley Bell talks conservation following Awardsline screening of LOVE & BANANAS MORE +
Chicago Tribune on HORN FROM THE HEART: "Butterfield performing in his final years [proves] revelatory... the singer could summon a depth of feeling on stage that belied his pain." MORE +
The Guardian: "An instructive story...Minnesota Experimental City: the 1960s town based on a comic strip" MORE +
NYLON on JACKSON: "A powerful film.. Demonstrates what's at stake by denying women accurate information about what it means to have a real choice about their bodies and their futures." MORE +
Boston Globe on Satan & Adam: "A story of racial harmony and the power of music." MORE +
Red Carpet Crash on HORN FROM THE HEART: "It's fascinating to see someone so talented and committed to their art." MORE +
Film Inquiry: "[HORN FROM THE HEART] follows Paul Butterfield's life in a compelling and caring way." MORE +
Variety: Paul Butterfield Documentary ‘Horn From the Heart’ Bought by Abramorama MORE +
Film Threat on Horn from the Heart: "A compelling story." MORE +
Rolling Stone: "Horn From the Heart is an enlightening look at an under-documented musician." MORE +
NY Times on HORN FROM THE HEART: "Spending the better part of 90 minutes with the man and his music is exhilarating." MORE +
Wall Street Journal: "A fine documentary... [Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story] looks at the blues musician who put music first during a time of racial tension." MORE +
Tages Anzeiger: Swiss Press for NETIZENS MORE +
National Newspaper Publishers Association: "V. Scott Balcerek pieces together decades of footage, photos and interviews into a tapestry that is never less than heartening... Captivating." MORE +
Chronogram: 5 Films Not to Miss at Woodstock Film Festival includes NETIZENS MORE +
Global News: "A unique behind-the-scenes look into the heart of the gigantic video game industry...powerful." MORE +
Filmmaker Magazine: “Everything was in over-drive, over-speed,” Eiselt said at 2018’s IFP Week, at a “case study” devoted entirely to 93Queen MORE +
DOCUMENTARY: "Doc Star of the Month '93Queen'...a fascinating look at America’s very first all-female EMT corps" MORE +
POV: "93Queen expertly takes you into trials and tribulations, victories and reversals right out of a narrative film." MORE +
Variety on 93QUEEN: "A group of tenacious Hasidic women are smashing the patriarchy" MORE +
Now Toronto on 93QUEEN: "10 MUST SEE HOT DOCS FILMS...Rachel Freier is riveting and so is her cause." MORE +
Women and Hollywood on 93 Queen: "On the heels of ‘RBG’ comes another hero for our times: Rachel ‘Ruchie’ Freier." MORE +
Jewish Standard: "93 Queen looks at change and pushback in Chasidic world." MORE +
AWFJ on 93 Queen: "A compelling glimpse inside an insular community and a fascinating portrait of a determined feminist." MORE +
Jezebel: Hasidic Women Fight to Be EMTs in the Documentary 93 Queen MORE +
The Guardian on 93 Queen: "Incredible... a rare glimpse into a closely guarded area." MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: "Forget Supergirl and Wonder Woman. To see a real female superhero in action, check out Paula Eiselt's 93 Queen" MORE +
No Film School on 93 Queen: "A film that starts a conversation." MORE +
Bustle: '93 Queen' Spotlights Hasidic Jewish Women Taking Initiative & Saving Lives MORE +
Stitcher Podcast on 93 Queen: Change is made by the ones who stay MORE +
JWA: 93Queen is a unique and intellectually honest portrayal of what women’s empowerment looks like in the Hasidic world MORE +
LA TIMES on 93 Queen: "Heartening, unexpected story sows what happens when a group of Hasidic women decide to create the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps." MORE +
Radio Canada on PLAYING HARD: "A documentary of a very high quality." MORE +
Journal De Montreal: "Playing Hard addresses the philosophical dimension of games and the entertainment industry." MORE +
Le Devoir on PLAYING HARD: "An exploration of personal and psychological challenges ... of a sometimes ruthless world." MORE +
Beat Route on Satan & Adam: "Oftentimes intimately warm and at others entirely heart-wrenching, as life itself so often is." MORE +
PT Leader on Satan & Adam: "Insightful profiles of extraordinary individuals...[a] treasure trove." MORE +
Dokumentkino: Netizens Review MORE +
Santa Barbara Independent on Love & Bananas: "Extraordinary" MORE +
BBC: Stephen Smith talks to photographer UNDERFIRE subject Tony Vaccaro MORE +
Megyn Kelly TODAY: ‘5 Browns’ Siblings Speak Out About Father’s Sexual Abuse MORE +
Nouse UK on TOO BEAUTIFUL: "Emblematic of the unjust and antiquated notions that lead to gender discrimination" MORE +
Champ Magazine on TOO BEAUTIFUL: 10 FILMS NOT TO MISS AT THE SHEFFIELD DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL MORE +
Spectator UK: Five Films to See at Sheffield Doc/Fest includes TOO BEAUTIFUL MORE +
No Film School on TOO BEAUTIFUL: Why 'Cameras Are Our Consciousness' in the Age of Cinematic Docs MORE +
Independent Sheffield on Too Beautiful – Our Right to Fight: "A documentary about acceptance, equality and boxing" MORE +
Reel Steel Cinema on TOO BEAUTIFUL: OUR RIGHT TO FIGHT: "Moving and symbolic...a firm reminder that womanhood is not confined to one narrow definition or image." MORE +
Backseat Mafia on Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight: "Namibia is engaging and arresting." MORE +
Reel Steel Cinema on TOO BEAUTIFUL: OUR RIGHT TO FIGHT: "Atmospheric and immersive." MORE +
Deadline: Breaking Glass Mounts Oscar Campaign for Acquisition CALL HER GANDA MORE +
Film Inquiry on TOO BEAUTIFUL: "Enrapturing...nothing short of masterful." MORE +
Sydney Morning Herald on LOVE & BANANAS: "An important film that will fill you with admiration." MORE +
DVD Digital Views on SIDEMEN: "Deserve[s] to be savored and watched over and over again." MORE +
Esquire: Guerra y paz - la fotografía de Tony Vaccaro MORE +
Shortlist Film Festival: Vimeo Best of the Month Selection Little Potato MORE +
Namarupa India: "Whether you are a person of faith, a devotee, a skeptic, atheist, agnostic, or student, the film, HARE KRISHNA will amaze you" MORE +
MID-DAY India : "People are hungry for a transcendental experience and that's just what they are getting from HARE KRISHNA!" MORE +
Financial Express India: HARE KRISHNA is "fascinating and informative" MORE +
The Hans India: "Devotees and followers of Hare Krishna across twin cities amassed to watch the first Indian screening of HARE KRISHNA" MORE +
Telangana Today India: Hare Krishna Movement (HKM) had booked the entire theatre for the first screening of HARE KRISHNA along with followers from twin cities. MORE +
San Francisco Chronicle on SATAN & ADAM: "The blues is about life, hardship. You go through it, you end up, there’s no quitting." MORE +
Oxford Eagle on SATAN & ADAM: "After more than three decades of friendship, 23 years of which were captured on film, Gussow said he owes much of who he is to Mister Satan" MORE +
CJLO: "PLAYING HARD shows the human side behind the game-making process" MORE +
Good Day LA: Love & Bananas Director Ashley Bell Inteviewed MORE +
Nightmarish Conjurings: "PLAYING HARD is slick, and immensely watchable" MORE +
Dread Central: "Jean-Simon Chartier directed [PLAYING HARD] beautifully." MORE +
Tranquil Dreams: "PLAYING HARD is a bittersweet journey" MORE +
FINANCIAL TIMES on UNDERFIRE: "Tony Vaccaro should be counted among the legends of the genre." MORE +
Geeks and Com: "PLAYING HARD offers unprecedented access to a highly secretive world... We attend the theater involved in creating a videogame." MORE +
The Gabber on Satan & Adam: "[SATAN] was singular, brilliant, one-of-a-kind blues guitar playing [and an] instantly identifiable vocalist" MORE +
IRISH FILM CRITIC : "SIDEMEN is a heartfelt, intimate look athe lives and legacies of three legendary bluesmen." MORE +
North Jersey.com on Stray Bullet: "Documentary on Killing of Genesis Rincon" MORE +
Mountain Xpress on Becoming Who I Was: "Intriguing, impeccably documented." MORE +
Film Threat: "WEED THE PEOPLE presents with grave urgency and convincing logic." MORE +
KVUE: Medicinal pot documentary WEED THE PEOPLE shares hopes for legalization at SXSW MORE +
The Wrap: WEED THE PEOPLE featured in 57 Eye-Popping SXSW portraits MORE +
IDA: "WEED THE PEOPLE tugs at heartstrings, avoids the loonies and lets expert researchers give its arguments credibility." MORE +
Austin360: "WEED THE PEOPLE makes a powerful, poignant case for medical marijuana" MORE +
Freedom Leaf: "The world premiere of WEED THE PEOPLE at SXSW was a highlight." MORE +
Nonfiction Film: At SXSW Ricki Lake, Abby Epstein unveil WEED THE PEOPLE, a doc on healing power of cannabis for children with cancer MORE +
The Daily Beast: "Groundbreaking... WEED THE PEOPLE sounds like it might be a stoner movie; it is anything but." MORE +
Leafly: "WEED THE PEOPLE displays concrete evidence and real cases of the truth... It’s touching, it’s special, it’s personal." MORE +
People: Ricki Lake-Produced Film WEED THE PEOPLE Argues for Marijuana Use as a Cancer Treatment MORE +
AV Club: Can marijuana help treat cancer? The team behind WEED THE PEOPLE thinks so MORE +
FILM THREAT: "There are several very important issues all exploding at once in CALL HER GANDA" MORE +
Il Giornale on MURDER IN ITALY: "The fast-paced narrative brings it closer to fiction” MORE +
Corriere della Sera on MURDER IN ITALY: “Many people have tried to tell the story, but nobody achieved what Hugo Berkeley has” MORE +
Independent on MURDER IN ITALY: "CRITICS CHOICE! Briskly engrossing." MORE +
The Guardian on MURDER IN ITALY: "Absorbing... what might have been the largest DNA manhunt in history." MORE +
FILMMAKER MAGAZINE: "What makes CALL HER GANDA so powerful is that Raval smartly widens the lens to tell Jennifer’s tale through the afterlife of her death." MORE +
TEMPO: CALL HER GANDA wins Best Documentary Audience Award at the Inside Out LGBT Film Festival TORONTO MORE +
NOW on CALL HER GANDA: 10 of the buzziest festival films come to Hot Docs 2018 MORE +
San Francisco Bay Times on CALL HER GANDA: "Riveting" MORE +
Village Voice: "The killing of a trans woman in the Philippines galvanizes outrage in CALL HER GANDA" MORE +
ABS/CBN: CALL HER GANDA named Outstanding North American Documentary Feature in the non-fiction feature category of the 34th Los Angeles Pacific Film Festival MORE +
Realscreen: PJ Raval unravels the process of making “Call Her Ganda” MORE +
Inquirer: PJ Raval's CALL HER GANDA wins best documentary audience award at Inside Out LGBT Film Festival MORE +
Let the Movies Move Us: "CALL HER GANDA forces you to see the dark side of society, military and the impact it has on the minds of those who did not get the chance to get enough education and respect." MORE +
Young Folks on CALL HER GANDA: "PJ Raval tells a story that demands our attention and, more importantly, our respect." MORE +
POV Magazine: "CALL HER GANDA exceptionally powerful... tough but vital." MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: "Handling its complex issues and complicated plot developments with forceful clarity, CALL HER GANDA proves simultaneously heartbreaking and inspirational." MORE +
NATIONAL POST on BECOMING WHO I WAS: "A moving account of religious and migratory freedom butting up against global politics." MORE +
DESERET NEWS: "THE 5 BROWNS is not about the salacious details of the abuse but rather about music, hope and life after traumatic events." MORE +
Good 4 Utah: "THE 5 BROWNS get real about life after sex abuse" MORE +
LA Times on MAINELAND: "Sweetly observed." MORE +
NY TIMES: Ella Brennan, Grande Dame Restaurateur of New Orleans, Dies at 92 MORE +
Washington Post: "ELLA BRENNAN a powerful force in the New Orleans restaurant business dies" MORE +
CNN: "Mastermind Ella Brennan, famed New Orleans restaurateur, dies at 92" MORE +
Salt Lake Tribute: "The 5 Browns talk about their father’s sexual abuse, and their own healing, in a documentary screening in Salt Lake City" MORE +
Radio West: The 5 Browns Documentary featured on Podcast MORE +
Womens Media Center: Interview with Cynthia Lowen about NETIZENS MORE +
NPR: Netizens' Carrie Goldberg Discusses Weinstein, Bill Cosby & 'Me Too' MORE +
SF Gate: "4/4 Stars... Heartwarming... Emotional and Effective" MORE +
V Cinema Show on BECOMING WHO I WAS: "Magical... capture(s) that slippery thing called childhood." MORE +
Isuu: "INSTANT DREAMS is a cinematic journey... a metaphor for our desire to catch our dreams" MORE +
Science and Film: NETIZENS Director Cynthia Lowen Interviewed MORE +
The Movie Elite on PLAYING HARD: "Surprisingly gripping... highly recommended." MORE +
CBC Arts: "Playing Hard offers an intimate window into the extraordinary" MORE +
Sceen Creek on Playing Hard : "Story telling is top-form... Chartier brings the film past a barebones “behind the scenes” doc and presents something entirely human." MORE +
The Star : "PLAYING HARD offers a rare peak under the video game hood" MORE +
Realscreen on PLAYING HARD: "Egos and artistry collide... everything rides on the epic battle game hitting the jackpot" MORE +
Audio Boom: Ashley Bell Interviewed about LOVE & BANANAS MORE +
Leonard Maltin: "LOVE & BANANAS is captivating" MORE +
Film Inquiry: " Satan & Adam also takes a moment to look at the racial issues each of these men had to deal with - while at the same time having a mutual understanding that music has no eye for color of the skin, only color of the mind." MORE +
No Film School Podcast: Interview with Netizens Cynthia Lowen / How Do You Protect Your Film’s Subjects, Data, Yourself? MORE +
Geeks Out on Netizens: "Stunning... puts a human face on a troubling twenty-first century phenomenon." MORE +
FF2 Media: "One of the most timely docs at Tribeca... ‘Netizens’ pleads with law enforcement to take online harassment seriously" MORE +
USA Today: Ashley Bell discusses her film LOVE & BANANAS MORE +
Northern Stars: "A film about dreams realized and dreams crushed... PLAYING HARD is eye-opening" MORE +
Console Creatures: Interview with Playing Hard's Jean-Simon Chartier MORE +
Hyes Musings: "PLAYING HARD is unprecedented." MORE +
Wylie Writes: PLAYING HARD is "engaging and well paced." MORE +
The Mutt: PLAYING HARD follows four-year development of Ubisoft’s For Honor MORE +
Digital Journal: "PLAYING HARD is a cohesive look behind the curtain of game development." MORE +
Feminist Frequency: Podcast discussion of Netizens MORE +
Canadian Geek Cast: Podcast discussion on Playing Hard MORE +
Scene Creek on Playing Hard: "Engrossing... Chartier never drops the ball as the emotion weight is carried out till the final moments of dialogue." MORE +
The Gate: "Given the notoriously top secret nature of the video game industry, it’s a miracle that Chartier was able to make Playing Hard at all." MORE +
Teen Vogue: "NETIZENS is as fierce as its protagonists, doggedly plowing through deeply painful subject matter and bristling with rightful fury." MORE +
LA Times on LOVE & BANANAS: "It's impossible to walk away unchanged." MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: "BECOMING WHO I WAS achieves an emotional impact appropriate to the scale of this journey."" MORE +
First Row Features: You Will Never Forget LOVE & BANANAS MORE +
Slate on NETIZENS: "Compassion lies behind every frame, from Netizens’ all-female crew to its informative, forceful story." MORE +
NYTimes on Becoming Who I Was: "Magnificent...Heartwarming... You don’t have to believe in Padma and Urgain’s religion to believe in them." MORE +
Exclaim: "PLAYING HARD is a sprawling behind-the-scenes account of how the game For Honor went from idea to massive Ubisoft release in 2017." MORE +
Toronto.com on PLAYING HARD: 22 movies to watch at Hot Docs MORE +
Toronto.com: "NETIZENS is a timely film that ought to summon everyone's outrage." MORE +
One Movie Our Reviews: "PLAYING HARD is an engaging look at the work that goes into making a video game" MORE +
In the Seats on PLAYING HARD: "A remarkable achievement... Things like this aren't suppose to happen." MORE +
The Playlist: "NETIZENS effectively documents the trauma of losing control over one’s identity and safety" MORE +
CNN: Ashley Bell LOVE & BANANAS OpEd + Rare Glimpse at an Elephant Herd MORE +
Realscreen: Interview with NETIZEN's Cynthia Lowen MORE +
Spirituality and Practice on LOVE & BANANAS: "Extraordinary... touched our hearts and it will move you as well." MORE +
SALON: Interview with Lek Chailert and Ashley Bell about LOVE & BANANAS MORE +
CNN: NETIZENS puts revenge porn in spotlight at Tribeca Film Festival MORE +
NY Post: Documentary LOVE AND BANANAS exposes horrific elephant torture in Cambodia MORE +
Geeks of Doom: "Love and Bananas is a wonderful documentary that brings to light a serious issue throughout the world." MORE +
Forbes: "[Love and Bananas] has the potential to be lifechanging" MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: "Deeply affecting... Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story is guaranteed to not leave a dry eye in the house." MORE +
Village Voice on Love and Bananas: "Bell captures the tension of this harrowing trip" MORE +
Pop Matters on Netizens: "Interesting and emotionally gauging." MORE +
Film Forward on Netizens: "Insightful...Lowen delves into the emotional, mental, and financial damages this kind of highly personal assault can inflict." MORE +
Little White Lies: "Despite being a maddening viewing experience at times, NETIZENS remains a powerful and honest look at a global epidemic." MORE +
Village Voice on Love and Bananas: "[Ashley] Bell captures the tensions of this harrowing trip." MORE +
CNN on Love and Bananas: Interview with Lek Chailert and Ashley Bell MORE +
NYTimes on Love & Bananas: "Informative and emotionally charged." MORE +
Pacific Standard Magazine: "Netizens should be required viewing" MORE +
Film Journal on Netizens: "Cynthia Lowen crafts an absorbing documentary that is part biography part discourse." MORE +
JB SPINS: "A combination of pain and joy makes [SATAN & ADAM] an immediately indispensable document of modern Americana... The best third act of any music doc since Searching for Sugarman." MORE +
SLICE OF SCI FI: Becoming Who I Was is "nothing short of amazing" MORE +
NOW TORONTO: "PLAYING HARD is a whirl of team meetings, motion-capture sessions, trailer footage, convention launches, promotional tours and celebrity events." MORE +
TWI NY: "Cynthia Lowen's Netizens is gripping and eye-opening" MORE +
Channel 8 on KANGAROO: Aussie documentary about kangaroo culling shocks international audiences MORE +
Variety: CBS Developing Drama Series on NETIZENS subject Carrie Goldberg MORE +
Entrepreneur: "Untold numbers of women endure horrific threats and abuse online. NETIZENS criticizes how little legislators and major social media platforms are doing about it." MORE +
Eye For Film UK on Netizens: "A wake-up call about the impact of harassment... Lowen's film is first-class." MORE +
The Pop Break on Netizens: "Lowen’s greatest achievement is the way she conveys aspects of patriarchy and misogyny" MORE +
Hollywood Times: "Love and Bananas is a heartwarming and hopeful film that exposes the plight of Asian elephants and the people who work tirelessly to save them." MORE +
In the Seats on Netizens: "Poignant...an important light into this dark area of the internet through the stories of 3 women." MORE +
NY Times: Intent to Destroy to Broadcast on Starz on Monday at 9PM MORE +
Now Toronto on Netizens: "insightful and quiety furious" MORE +
Unseen FIlms: "Satan & Adam is a terrific film that will move your feet and your soul. Very highly recommended." MORE +
Film Journal on Love and Bananas: "Gut wrenching yet ultimately optimistic...Love and Bananas packs an emotional punch" MORE +
Film Threat: 22 Theaters to Screen Love and Bananas for Earth Day MORE +
Solzy at the Movies: "Netizens is a timely documentary for the Me Too era" MORE +
Moveable Feast on SATAN & ADAM: "Unusually rich... stirring... a beautiful musical marriage." MORE +
Big Picture Big Sound: "This is an outstanding documentary and I suspect that it has an excellent chance of winning the best documentary award at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. It's a must-see." MORE +
NonFics on SATAN & ADAM: "What starts as a simple documentary about a musical “odd couple” emerges as a profound statement about survival." MORE +
Soulhead: Tribeca Film Festival Music Lovers Guide 2018 includes Satan and Adam MORE +
Amsterdam News: Black Tribeca 2018 includes Satan and Adam MORE +
Screen Anarchy: Netizens is nothing if not extremely timely MORE +
WIREWAX: Satan & Adam is one of Six Tribeca Festival Sessions You Can't Miss MORE +
Deadline on Satan and Adam: The 23-Year Journey Of An Unlikely Musical Duo Takes Center Stage In Tribeca Docu MORE +
Catholic Herald: ‘Summer in the Forest’ traces the founding of L’Arche by Jean Vanier MORE +
Christian Cinema: "Beautifully shot, wonderfully scored, and innocently portrayed, Summer in the Forest is a powerful film." MORE +
Village Voice: "Cynthia Lowen scores another infuriating triumph with Netizens" MORE +
Variety: Love and Bananas Hits 22 Theaters Across US MORE +
One Green Planet on Love and Bananas: "A moving film exposing the plight of Asian elephants and the people dedicated to saving the species" MORE +
Rolling Stone: 20 Movies We Can't Wait to See at Tribeca Film Festival includes Netizens MORE +
Kickstarter: Netizens is 1 of 12 Kickstarter-Funded Films to Premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival MORE +
Women in Hollywood: Netizens and other Women-Directed docs at Tribeca promise to "get audiences talking" MORE +
NY Post: Don't Miss Netizens at Tribeca MORE +
Refinery 29: Netizens on Woman-Directed Films To Look For At The Tribeca Film Festival list MORE +
New Yorker: Maineland is "a quiet marvel of a documentary directed by Miao Wang" MORE +
Summer in the Forest on Salon TV: A community where all are welcome MORE +
Wolf Entertainment on Summer in the Forest: "Emotionally touching" MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: SUMMER IN THE FOREST champions Jean Vanier's vision by quietly watching it in harmonious action MORE +
NY Times: Maineland is "Astute and absorbing...I'll keep my fingers crossed for a sequel" MORE +
Netizens to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival 2018 MORE +
Now Toronto: Hot Docs 2018 focuses on "silence-breaking" women including NETIZENS film MORE +
NY Times: ‘Summer in the Forest’ Captivates With Questions of Humanity MORE +
Village Voice on Summer in the Forest: "A story that has meaning for everyone" MORE +
Film Journal on Summer in the Forest: "Upbeat and inspiring...A deeply moving study in patience and tolerance" MORE +
Becoming Who I Was Wins Best Feature Length Documentary at San Luis Obsipo Film Festival MORE +
Film Journal on Maineland: "An absorbing and rare intimate look at the lives of the rich Chinese" MORE +
Fast Company: Maineland Review and Interview with Miao Wang MORE +
Village Voice: "Chinese Students Discover America in Breezy Beautiful Doc Maineland" MORE +
NY Times Critics Pick Maineland "takes up a large and complicated set of topics and addresses them with understated delicacy." MORE +
V for Veganism: Interview with Kangaroo Filmmakers MORE +
PBS on KANGAROO: "Eye-opening...A must see." MORE +
NPR: KANGAROO filmmakers speak to HERE AND NOW MORE +
Alternet: Kangaroos Are the Target of the Largest Mass Destruction of Wildlife in the World MORE +
Village Voice: Chasing Great is an "Ode to New Zealand’s All Blacks National Rugby Team" MORE +
Interview with BECOMING WHO I WAS director in Public Radio International MORE +
Film Journal: "BECOMING WHO I WAS is a remarkable achievement, a work of beauty and heartbreak with the power to move us all." MORE +
HAMMER TO NAIL on INSTANT DREAMS : "A beautiful visual metaphor for the magic of perception...to be savored long after the movie is over." MORE +
LA Elements: "KANGAROO offers a harrowing look at the barbaric treatment of the Australian icon" MORE +
Stray Bullet - "a film that should make noise." MORE +
Jean-Cosme Delaloye knows how to film America- The journalist sometimes trades his pen against a camera. "Stray Bullet", his third documentary, which tells a tragic news story and his trial, was selected in Solothurn. MORE +
ONE BIG HOME in VICE: "Building oversized homes created an environmental housing crisis." MORE +
SF GATE: "Like The Cove or Blackfish... KANGAROO left me startled. It likely will jolt you, too." MORE +
College Media Network on KANGAROO: "It takes courage to expose what is done in darkness, and the directors carry these narratives... with an unshakeable belief that with enough voices speaking out about the issue, a better future can be paved for the kangaroo." MORE +
The Film Experience: INSTANT DREAMS "offers a visually dazzling nostalgia trip." MORE +
JB Spins: INSTANT DREAMS is "a thoughtful, good-looking film that should have many more stops on the festival circuit." MORE +
Slate: "KANGAROO is not for the faint of heart" MORE +
Slug Magazine: "Instant Dreams, director Willem Baptist’s documentary ode to the Polaroid, is as enchanting and magical as its subject." MORE +
Filmuforia on BECOMING WHO I WAS: "a piognant buddy movie" MORE +
FF2 Media: KANGAROO is "Eye opening... a must see" MORE +
Flick Filosopher: KANGAROOO has "much to say about us humans and our relationship with the natural world." MORE +
Film Journal: "KANGAROO is impassioned...expertly photographed and edited" MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: KANGAROO is a "heartfelt...eye-opener" MORE +
One Green Planet: New documentary Blows the Lid Off of the Mass Slaughter and Exploitation of Australia’s Beloved Kangaroo MORE +
Village Voice: "Kangaroo is a sobering depiction of how deep cultural divides affect the future of a species" MORE +
Variety: Instant Dreams at Slamdance 2018 MORE +
Polaroid Magazine: INSTANT DREAMS is a "cinematic journey" MORE +
Hammer to Nail: Kangaroo is "searing and heartfelt" MORE +
Aced Magazine on KANGAROO: It’s like the United States declaring open season on the Bald Eagle. MORE +
Variety: KANGAROO is guaranteed to prompt plenty of discussion MORE +
LA Times: Insightful Doc KANGAROO reveals plight of embattled marsupials MORE +
F Stoppers: INSTANT DREAMS explore the magic of this defunct format, the pioneer of instant imagery, and documents the search for the lost chemical formula. MORE +
Park Record: Instant Dreams on Slamdance 2018 slate MORE +
PETA PIXEL: INSTANT DREAMS Covers the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polaroid MORE +
NY Times: Kangaroo is "'breathtaking...a wake-up siren...exposes a wildlife massacre" MORE +
Oxford Times: "Few will be able to watch the closing scenes of BECOMING WHO I WAS with dry eyes." MORE +
Senses of Cinema: Becoming Who I Was film makes Senses of Cinema Critical Critics World Cinema Poll MORE +
Telegraph: Pfizer halts drug development for Alzheimers, suggesting that pharmaceuticals are not the cure MORE +
Reuters: Pfizer is abandoning research to find new drugs aimed at treating Alzheimer’s MORE +
"The most compassionate, humanist study this side of Ozu." - Dennis Hartley on BECOMING WHO I WAS MORE +
Cine Kino Sur: Becoming Who I Was wins BEST DOCUMENTARY at 35th International Film Festival of Mountain Autrans MORE +
Film School Rejects: FIlms to see in 2018 directed by women includes KANGAROO MORE +
Reel Honest Reviews on THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY: "A bold, innovative and entertaining discovery" MORE +
Solzy at the Movies: "EXPERIMENTAL CITY documents the fascinating story behind a failed domed metropolis" MORE +
Journal Sentinel: EXPERIMENTAL CITY is a best alternative movie bet MORE +
Chicago Sun Times: Experimental City is one of 12 screenings to see at Chicago International Film Festival MORE +
Next City: Today’s Urban Planners Can Learn From Yesterday’s “City of the Future” MORE +
Film Journal: "THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY is an incredible and little-known story" MORE +
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: "EXPERIMENTAL CITY is a documentary about a futuristic Minnesota planned community that stirred up controversy on every side." MORE +
City Lab: "THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY shows how MXC of the 1960's predicted the rise of personal computers, video conferencing, and a proto-Internet that would allow networked remote shopping and banking. " MORE +
Hyperallergic: "THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY recalls a moment when science was considered an answer to our city's problems, and utopia was a place people believed they could build." MORE +
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Black Reel Awards: CHASING TRANE amongst finalists for Black Reel Awards MORE +
Rolling Stone: TURN IT AROUND is one of the Rolling Stone's Best Music Docs of 2017 MORE +
Rolling Stone: TWO TRAINS RUNNIN' is one of 2017's best music documentaries MORE +
TWO TRAINS RUNNIN' nominated for Best Music Film at 60th Grammy Awards MORE +
Variety: "KANGAROO calls attention to the fascinating and troubling dichotomy afflicting Australia" MORE +
Deadline: KANGAROO will be released in theaters this January in US and Australia MORE +
Al-Jazeera: BECOMING WHO I I WAS...an intense picture of the spirituality that inhabits humans in that region of the world. MORE +
Bergen International Film Festival: "MONSTER IN THE MIND scoops prestigious Golden Owl Prize" MORE +
Stanford Center on Longevity: "MONSTER IN THE MIND offers an unprecedented look at the truth and fiction of Alzheimer’s" MORE +
Seven Pods: "MONSTER IN THE MIND is a fascinating account of the history of Alzheimer's" MORE +
Alzheimer News Today: "MONSTER IN THE MIND – Brilliantly Crafted Alzheimer’s Film Overturns Doomsday Predictions" MORE +
The Frame/KPCC: Inteview with Berlinger: "'Armenians deserve their 'Schindler's List'' MORE +
Trust Movies: "MONOGAMISH's surprising, amusing and a jaw-dropping finale” MORE +
Eye for Film: "MONOGAMISH is a well researched and entertaining documentary" MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: "MONOGAMISH is a thorough expose on conjugal practices both past and present" MORE +
Film Courage: "INTENT TO DESTROY explores denial and the aftermath of denial and the mechanism of denial" MORE +
Behind the Lens: "Berlinger's INTENT TO DESTROY takes an unprecedented and fascinating look at a century of censorship and denial" MORE +
Deadline: Joe Berlinger Risks Turkey’s Ire With Armenian Genocide Doc INTENT TO DESTROY MORE +
LA Times: "INTENT TO DESTROY is masterful" MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: "Excellent and informative INTENT TO DESTROY" MORE +
New York Times: INTENT TO DESTROY is "smart and symbolic" MORE +
Film Journal: INTENT TO DESTROY is "cumulatively stunning" MORE +
Village Voice: "Ruspoli takes the film’s title to heart, ending Monogamish on a big ¯_(ツ)_/¯" MORE +
Slant Magazine: Joe Berlinger talks career and INTENT TO DESTROY MORE +
MEL MAGAZINE: MONOGAMISH is "a thorough exploration into the history and sustainability of relationships of all kind" MORE +
VIFF: Becoming Who I Was is the best documentary of the festival MORE +
Den of Geek: "INTENT TO DESTROY will likely be revelatory for moviegoers" MORE +
SALON: "Berlinger has a knack for cutting through the fog and drawing sharp lines where the truth previously had been blurry" MORE +
San Francisco Chronicle: Joe Berlinger honored with Freedom of Expression Award at this year’s San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. MORE +
POV Magazine: "INTENT TO DESTROY is a smart and affecting portrait" MORE +
INDIEWIRE: INTENT TO DESTROY is An Unflinching Look at the Making of Armenian Genocide Film ‘The Promise’ MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: INTENT TO DESTROY nominated for IDA Awards MORE +
Public Radio Armenia: "INTENT TO DESTROY is a powerful lens through which to explore the reality of the Armenian genocide and its subsequent campaign of denial and Hollywood censorship." MORE +
Deadline: INTENT TO DESTROY wins Best Doc at 2017 DOC LA MORE +
Huffington Post: "Berlinger's stock-in trade: socially conscious approach to advocacy that is also cinematically groundbreaking." MORE +
Birth Movies Death: "Passion and obsession in HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE is fascinating and ultimately heartbreaking" MORE +
Screen Anarchy: HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE Beautifully Mixes Craft and Emotion MORE +
NOW Toronto: HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE is shaped for "maximum emotional impact.. it finds resonance and solace in impossible quests." MORE +
Straight: "Director Jay Cheel takes viewers on a philosophical, reflective, scientific journey" MORE +
Pop Optique: "HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE is as inspiring as it is enjoyable, a must see for anyone who ever dared to think outside the box." MORE +
Washington Post on How to Build a Time Machine: "odd but charming meditation on memory, nostalgia and mortality" MORE +
POV Magazine: HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE "revels in the power of moving images to simultaneously evoke the past while offering intriguing essays for viewers in the present" MORE +
National Post: "HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE proves science fiction can inspire real science – or art" MORE +
Globe and Mail: "HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE is enchanting and whimsicle" MORE +
Telegraph: HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE is "beautiful, meditative, and memorable" MORE +
DEADLINE: "F(L)AG FOOTBALL interweaves competitive games, tournament events, off-field relationships, and deeply personal interviews" MORE +
The Wrap: "Out athletes slam head first into traditional notions of gridiron masculinity in the spirited documentary F(L)AG FOOTBALL" MORE +
Rolling Stone: "F(L)AG FOOTBALL shatters stereotypes about both athletes and gay men" MORE +
New York Times: It should go without saying, but Seth Greenleaf's F(L)AG FOOTBALL knows it’s worth showing...On the field and off, we are all so much alike. MORE +
Film Threat: "MONOGAMISH is an intelligent and meditative film regardless of your stance on monogamy" MORE +
Film Journal: "MONOGAMISH is a thorough expose of conjugal practices both past and present" MORE +
Village Voice: Experts analyze the makeup and social impact of traditional marriage in MONOGAMISH MORE +
KQED: TURN IT AROUND is the Definitive Documentary on East Bay Punk MORE +
Rolling Stone: Inside Green Day's Epic New East Bay Punk Doc TURN IT AROUND MORE +
A Journal of Musical Things: "TURN IT AROUND captures both the music and the spirit of the scene" MORE +
Variety: TURN IT AROUND will make you wish you’d not just “seen that show,” but been embedded in the entire surrounding scene. MORE +
BILLBOARD: Legendary East Bay Punk Scene Comes to Life in Green Day Doc TURN IT AROUND MORE +
Salon: New film rethinks the rules of marriage MORE +
Men's Journal: Is Monogamy Right For You? MORE +
Indiewire: "Fascinating and stylish new documentary" MORE +
VICE ID: "Shingal Where Are You? thoroughly deserves its Best Documentary Award at Woodstock Film Festival" MORE +
Grammy Awards: Two Trains A Runnin' promises to provide a meaningful look into a crucial moment in our musical and cultural history. MORE +
Maineland Wins Audience Choice Documentary MORE +
Rolling Stone Feature: New Documentary Blends Civil Rights Murders With Hunt for Blues Icons MORE +
Roger Ebert: Shingal, Where Are You? is "another of the year’s great documentaries" MORE +
Broadway World: Shingal, Where Are You? wins Best Documentary Feature at Woodstock Film Festival MORE +
Beautiful Now: "Becoming Who I Was is a beautiful film" MORE +
Santa Fe Reporter: 9+ A beautiful film... Becoming Who I Was MORE +
Vancouver Observer: 4 Stars- This is a charming and ultimately very emotional film. MORE +
Backseat Mafia: "Becoming Who I Was is a fascinating peek into another world" MORE +
Straight: BECOMING WHO I WAS is "intriguing and moving..." MORE +
The LA Times: Two Trains Runnin is "energetic, trenchant...captures the colllision of blues and civil rights." MORE +
Film Journal International: It's rare that a documentary can bring new light to familiar subjects, and rarer still to find a greater meaning from them...Two Trains Runnin' opens an important conversation MORE +
Filmmaker Magazine “There’s No Such Thing as a Post-Racial America” Sam Pollard on Two Trains Runnin’ MORE +
Slant Magazine: Two Trains Runnin' is an essential entry in a growing renaissance of U.S. documentaries detailing African-American histories in the post-civil-rights-movement era MORE +
LA Times: Sam Pollard’s music- and civil rights quest Two Trains Runnin' MORE +
NY TIMES: In Two Trains Runnin' the convergence of idealism, brutality and artistic genius MORE +
Roger Ebert.com: Two Trains Runnin is powerful meditation on the origins of an African-American musical genre and the painful reasons for its existence MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: Two Trains Runnin' brings a fresh perspective MORE +
MYAIC: TWO TRAINS RUNNIN is Sam Pollard's compact, resonant documentary — part essay film, part road picture, part musical anthology. MORE +
DigBoston: "MAINELAND is exceptionally knotty...a keen-eyed movie" MORE +
Film Inquiry on SIDEMEN: " I recommend this documentary for all to see." MORE +
The Boston Globe: “Maineland” examines how the students adjust to Fryeburg Academy and how they reconcile their expectations about life in America with the reality of being teenagers in a small, blue-collar town. MORE +
Radio New Zealand "Berns may have had strong ties to the mob, but it is his remarkable music that endures 50 years after his premature death in New York" MORE +
Hero Magazine: "The man who changed jazz, documenting the life of John Coltrane" MORE +
Indie Outlook: "Rallis’ extraordinary documentary, “Shingal, Where Are You?” is guaranteed to open countless minds" MORE +
The 13th Floor review: Bang! "it’s simply an inspiring depiction of a very talented and driven man who knew he had a limited time to make his mark on the world." MORE +
Variety: When Patsy Cline Was Crazy gets US DVD release MORE +
The NY Times: "Fall Movie Releases" Maineland October 6th MORE +
Metro Weekly: LITTLE POTATO is "funny, emotional and revelatory" MORE +
Village Voice In Repose: “Mr. Chibbs” Explores the Afterlife of an NBA Player MORE +
San Jose Mercury News: Brilliant SIDEMEN demands your attention MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: SIDEMEN should prove catnip to music lovers, especially blues fans. MORE +
NY Times: A loving narrative of personal relience... once they were 'SIDEMEN', now they are stars MORE +
NY Post: The Rolling Stones want SIDEMEN'S Hubert Sumlin in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame MORE +
LA Times: SIDEMEN is fittingly soulful and long overdue MORE +
Variety: SIDEMEN is an exceptionally entertaining and captivating tribute MORE +
BECOMING WHO I WAS selected for Documentary Competition at San Diego Film Festival MORE +
Indiewire: 20 Overlooked Documentaries to Stream on Netflix includes BREAKING A MONSTER MORE +
Last of the Longnecks wins Special Jury award for Family Film @ Sidewalk Film Festival MORE +
Four Oh Five: Mark this in your calendar - CHASING TRANE at Rio Cinema MORE +
BECOMING WHO I WAS in Documentaire Extraordinaire Competition at Bergen International Film Festival MORE +
NY Undressed: Art Bastard's Robert Cenedella Interviewed about 'Pence on Earth' and 'Blind Trust' MORE +
Huffington Post: Robert Cenedella's 'Fin Del Mundo' turns heads MORE +
NBC News: Report Finds China Sends Most International Students to U.S. High Schools MORE +
Spirituality and Practice: Hare Krishna is a "dynamic documentary about the visionary Vedic scholar who launched a movement" MORE +
Deadline: HARE KRISHNA has the weekend’s highest per theater average among all reporting releases MORE +
SF GATE: Hare Krishna leads Indie Box Office MORE +
THE WRAP: “Hare Krishna” led per screen averages this weekend with over $21,000 from its single screen MORE +
FILM SCHOOLPODCAST: Interview with Hare Krishna co-director Lauren Ross MORE +
The Knockturnal: HARE KRISHNA is more relevant now than ever MORE +
Namarupa: In HARE KRISHNA truth is grander than fiction MORE +
CDG: Hare Krishna "an intriguing account of Iskcon Founder Srila Prabhupada, and the movement he launched with no money or contacts," MORE +
Medium: Hare Krishna on a 'Sold Out' Streak and Continues to Captivate Audiences MORE +
Global Peace Film Festival announces Last of the Longnecks and One Big Home MORE +
Festival Ierapetra: Shingal, Where Are You? wins Best Greek Documentary MORE +
Trustmovies on Art Bastard "This talented but far-too-unrecognized fellow and his story prove such fun to get to know that the film's 84 minutes simply fly by." MORE +
Irish News: "Jean Vanier's L'Arche - a picture of unity in a divided world" MORE +
Sight and Sound: "[Summer in the Forest] is exceptionally moving" MORE +
York Mix: "Films to see in York in July." MORE +
Telegraph: "Captivating... Summer in the Forest could not be more timely." MORE +
The Fan Carpet: "A remarkable reversal of conventional wisdom, [Summer in the Forest] shows that the answers we crave can be found among some of our most marginalized people." MORE +
Telegraph: "Discovers what it is to be human" MORE +
The Spectator: "Summer in the Forest is a powerful new film .. a radical proposition that love begins when power is abandoned." MORE +
The Upcoming: "Summer in the Forest is thoughtful and refined." MORE +
Daily Express: "Revolutionary, .a tender-hearted documentary" MORE +
The Guardian: "Above all, Summer in the Forest is a peaceful vision" MORE +
The Spectator: "Turns the world upside-down…Summer in the Forest deserves a giant screening in Trafalgar Square" MORE +
Daily Mail: "Summer in the Forest is..,joyously uplifting" MORE +
Rosa Monckton: "Summer in the Forest is a film that could, and should, change your life." MORE +
Music Enthusiast: "CHASING TRANE is a worthy documentary..." MORE +
Jazz in Europe: "CHASING TRANE is a must." MORE +
SideWalk Film Festival announces their lineup: Bang! The Bert Berns Story, Ella Brennan, Trumped, and Last of the Longnecks MORE +
NPR: "After 7 decades, Sonny Rollins can't get music off his mind." MORE +
FLIX Greece: "Shingal, Where Are You? is the bone-crushing movie of Thessaloniki festival" MORE +
Venture Beat: THE LOST ARCARDE is "part documentary and part eulogy for the iconic New York video game arcade Chinatown Fair in all its messy, beloved neon glory." MORE +
Little Potato wins Best Documentary Short Audience Award at Outfest LA MORE +
The LA Times: Hare Krishna "(the film) reveals an inner glow." MORE +
ABQ Journal: "This is a photographer who deserves to be a household name." MORE +
Dorkshelf re Becoming Who I Was: "...excellent documentary..." MORE +
San Francisco Chronicle: Underground ‘Opera’ mesmerizes, despite his pain and poverty MORE +
Santa Fe Reporter: "Not Even a world war stopped this artist - UNDERFIRE at CCA Sante Fe". MORE +
i-D Vice on LITTLE POTATO: "Superb, affirming and well worth seeing." MORE +
27 East: What started as a personal obsession, flashing a critical lens at the social and environmental impact of mega mansions, morphed into a quasi-crusade, one that took the form of “One Big Home” MORE +
Forbes: "BANG! The Bert Berns Story -- A Remarkable Documentary About An Unsung Hero of the Music Business" MORE +
Seattle International Film Festival JURY STATEMENT: We admired the filmmaker’s skill and commitment to capturing the relationship between the two subjects in this artfully crafted documentary. For a film that beautifully tells the story of a truly incredible emotional and spiritual journey, the jury awards the grand prize for documentary filmmaking to Becoming Who I Was. MORE +
Variety: A charmingly intimate portrait that ultimately assumes epic-journey proportions... MORE +
The Stranger: 'Becoming Who I Was' Delivers a Humorous, Poignant Look at a Monk-to-Be. MORE +
The Huffington Post: “Mr. Chibbs” serves as both a biographical sketch of Anderson and a cautionary tale of the less glamorous side of fame and fortune. MORE +
The Toronto Guardian "Featuring a rare ensemble of people whose lives are intimately connected to weapons, SHOOTING OURSELVES is set against a backdrop of increasing global violence." MORE +
The Vineyard Gazette: Catch Kenny Anderson and Jill Campbell at the Mr. Chibbs screening July 1st MORE +
App.com "Academy Award- and Emmy-nominated director Leslie Iwerks chronicles the lifetime accomplishments of restaurateur Ella Brennan, whose family owns the renowned New Orleans restaurant Commander's Palace." MORE +
Film Independent: LITTLE POTATO is...strangely compelling...prompting me to consider why it is we watch films. MORE +
The Paris Review: "Resonant of both the person and the place, Jackson embodies the issues at stake in a debate too often waged in the name of those it doesn’t care to face." MORE +
Seed: The Untold Story wins the Fresh Perspectives Award at Pelicam International Film Festival MORE +
Jacob Burns Film Center: Ella Brennan: Commanding the Table Monday, June 19th "New York premiere of a festival favorite!" MORE +
Fandor: "The Jury Award for Documentary Shorts goes to Little Potato, directed by Wes Hurley and Nathan M. Miller." MORE +
Paste Magazine: "Documentary Shorts Winner: Little Potato Director: Wes Hurley & Nathan M. Miller" MORE +
The Austin Chronicle: Documentary Shorts Winner: "Little Potato" MORE +
Deadline: "Documentary Short Winner Little Potato; directed by Wes Hurley & Nathan M. Miller" MORE +
The LA Times: "Wes Hurley and Nathan M. Miller’s “Little Potato” won the documentary short prize. " MORE +
The Hollywood Reporter: "Documentary Short Winner Little Potato, directed by Wes Hurley" MORE +
Variety: SXSW documentary short winner "Little Potato" MORE +
Kuow: Little Potato "Seattle filmmaker explains how a mysterious Channel 3 changed his life in communist Russia" MORE +
Seattle Magazine: "ittle Potato, which picked up a documentary short Grand Jury prize at South by Southwest, is a love letter to the American Dream." MORE +
Seattle Weekly: "Little Potato is as topical as it is timeless." MORE +
Jet Space Magazine: Little Potato "one sees a small, vulnerable family trying to escape a cold, bitter nation because their own hearts are curious, formidable and warm." MORE +
The Stranger: "Though Little Potato is only 14 minutes long, it packs more life and surprise and beauty and humor and poignancy into those minutes than seems possible." MORE +
VR Today: "“Potato Dreams” is a short narrative mostly focusing on the director’s mother, who moved to Seattle from Russia as a mail-order bride. It’s a simple story of immigration with voiceover narration, which helps tie together the tableux that are arrayed around you." MORE +
The Stranger: "Wes Hurley's Little Potato Has an Evocative Electronic Soundtrack" MORE +
City Arts Online: "Filmmaker Wes Hurley uses animation and archival photos from his childhood in Russia to lend visual oomph to his short autobiographical documentary Little Potato." MORE +
Indiewire: “Little Potato” focuses on a mother and son wanting to find a better life for themselves outside the confines of an oppressive Russian regime. MORE +
The Seattle Times: Seattle filmmaker and performer Wes Hurley scored a hit at the SXSW Film Festival with a movie memoir of growing up gay in Russia, “Little Potato.” MORE +
Advocate: Little Potato "It is rare for LGBT stories to surface from this period in history. It displays unlikely acceptance and a rare glimpse into gay life outside the United States." MORE +
American Black Film Festival “Mr. Chibbs” explores what happens when the talent fades and a sports legend searches for a meaningful future. MORE +
BoingBoing: Great electronic soundtrack for award winning short documentary film, LITTLE POTATO MORE +
The Stranger: Will Wes Hurley's Local Film LITTLE POTATO Win the Oscar for Best Short Documentary? MORE +
Documentary News: LITTLE POTATO is a must-see at Seattle International Film Festival MORE +
Illuminate Film Festival "HARE KRISHNA! TAKES HOME JURY PRIZE" MORE +
Shooting Ourselves selected in London Architecture Film Festival MORE +
Newsday: At 94, Tony Vaccaro looks back at his brutal images of WWII MORE +
Movie Bit: 4 stars...this isn't a video game documentary, this is a people documentary MORE +
Wild Lens “Last of the Longnecks” finally puts giraffes in the spotlight. This movie tells a compelling story abouthow little is actually known about such an iconic animal, and how close they are to becoming extinct. MORE +
La Repubblica: Tony Vaccaro, the photographer who immortalized the D-Day MORE +
Goethe Institut: "Moving targets, moving Images," the Canadian premiere of Shooting Ourselves MORE +
Popgates: Mr. Chibbs "EVERYBODY’S ALL AMERICAN IN CRISIS: Interview with Kenny Anderson Documentary Director Jill Campbell" MORE +
Montages Magazine: Shooting Ourselves " The project links memory and the everyday to a specific built environment, and highlights the importance architecture has in shaping our lives and the experience thereof." MORE +
Radio KRCB: "Bert Burns: The Unknown Hitmaker of the 1960s" MORE +
AE: Shadows of Paradise "Filmmaker Sebastian Lange, who himself was raised in the movement, presents an intimate look at this new phase in the movement’s evolution." MORE +
Lower East Side Film Festival announces their 2017 lineup: catch Kosher Love June 11th MORE +
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival announces 2017 lineup: Ella Brennan, Art Bastard, and One Big Home MORE +
Green Film Fest: Last of the Longnecks "Exploring the plight and extinction of giraffes and the implications of their demise in our rapidly changing world." MORE +
GoPro: The Long View "Walking With Giraffes will prove to be the biggest contributor to giraffe conservation there’s ever been." MORE +
FernTV: 10 Hot Docs Films We Loved includes SHINGAL MORE +
The Sunday Times: Walking With Giraffes "Scientist uses drones to prevent giraffe extinction" MORE +
The Shelf Minisode – listen to "Brett Berns on BANG! The Bert Berns Story" MORE +
SF Gate: Bang! "Filmmaker Brett Berns brings his late father's story to the screen through interviews with those who knew him best and rare performance footage." MORE +
Nonfics: Behind the Music 'Bang! The Bert Berns Story' Celebrates the Industry MORE +
Vineyard Gazette: "One Big Home, spreading the message of restraint to preserve town character." MORE +
San Francisco Examiner: Bang! Opens May 12th at the Roxie MORE +
Sports Illustrated: Former NBA point guard Kenny Anderson discusses the role basketball played in his life and opens up about his new documentary, "Mr. Chibbs." MORE +
San Francisco Chronicle: Bang! "Bert Berns was the real thing." MORE +
Paste Magazine on MAINELAND: "Stunning...speaks to us in a language we understand." MORE +
Mr. Chibbs: Fansided "The film is a reminder of the problems people face regardless of their stardom and a grim realization that stories like Anderson’s continue to exist in the league today." MORE +
Bang! The Bert Berns Story "his importance extended beyond the charts." MORE +
"Bert Berns, the most important songwriter and record producer from the sixties that you never heard of." MORE +
Bang! in Indiewire "Los Angeles added to the initial New York date for some sampling for this documentary about an important but lesser known 1960s rock figure. MORE +
Deadline: Bang! The Bert Berns Story has its second week in theaters MORE +
Mr. Chibbs "Ten years after retirement from a career as a professional athlete, Kenny Anderson finds that basketball is easy, but life is difficult." MORE +
Hindustan Times: SHINGAL is a haunting film on Yazidi refugee family's trauma MORE +
‘One Big Home,’ the film about Vineyard ‘starter castles,’ to premiere . . . in the Hamptons MORE +
The Frame: 'BANG: The Bert Berns Story': Uncovering the legacy of a legendary R&B producer MORE +
Mother Jones: This film [Jackson] about reproductive rights has never been more relevant. MORE +
Aol Build: KENNY ANDERSON AND DIRECTOR JILL CAMPBELL DISCUSS THEIR NEW FILM "MR. CHIBBS" MORE +
CBS New York: NBA Great Kenny Anderson Talks ‘Mr. Chibbs’ Documentary MORE +
ABC News: New Documentary Mr. Chibbs MORE +
Los Angeles Times: “Bang!” is filled with lively anecdotes about the days when hucksters and racketeers ran the music business, jostling for control — an art in and of itself. MORE +
Food & Wine: Restaurateur Ella Brennan Finally Gets the Documentary She Deserves MORE +
The Jewish Journal: ‘Bert Berns Story’ pays tribute to a music pioneer' MORE +
Unseen Films: Compulsively watchable and irrepressibly hummable, Bang! The Bert Berns story is highly recommended for fans of 1960s pop, rock, and soul when it opens this Friday (5/5) in LA, at the Laemmle NoHo. MORE +
San Francisco Chronicle: Bang! The Bert Berns Story opens Friday May 12th MORE +
Women and Hollywood - Interview with Jill Campbell on Mr. Chibbs MORE +
Film Journal: Mr. Chibbs "somber portrait of a man still trying to grow up in the shadow of his own legacy." MORE +
Shadow and Act: Chasing Trane "The smart, passionate, thought-provoking and uplifting documentary is for anyone who appreciates the power of music to entertain, inspire and transform. " MORE +
Flavorwire: Chasing Trane "Scheinfeld’s film does the hardest thing for a bio-doc to do: it gets what’s great about the artist, and moves you in the same ways their art does." MORE +
The Young Folks "Chasing Trane is essential viewing" MORE +
The Village Voice: Mr. Chibbs "One of Campbell's strengths is pacing. She lets Anderson's story unfold along with his memories." MORE +
Unseen Films: Chasing Trane "Those who are new to his music should acquire a thorough appreciation from Scheinfeld’s film, while established listeners will gain a further, deeper perspective. " MORE +
TOP TIER FANDOM: Chasing Trane "You will come out of it having a greater appreciation for a man who felt his music could alter a person and truly affect them." MORE +
The Knockturnal: Chasing Trane "The film is raw and honest" MORE +
The Fader "John Scheinfeld’s new documentary, Chasing Trane, reintroduces us to the music and the creative magnetism of one of jazz’s most formidable titans in a refreshingly potent manner: by laying his demons bare." MORE +
VIBE: John Coltrane Comes Back To Life In New ‘Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary’ MORE +
Hollywood Soapbox: "Chasing Trane proves to be an intimate portrait of a man and his musical risk-taking as a dominant saxophonist." MORE +
Truth Dig: Listen to john Scheinfeld discuss Chasing trane MORE +
Jazz Times: "Scheinfeld offers a portrait that takes in the socio-historical and spiritual context in which Coltrane created his masterworks." MORE +
Front Row Features: Chasing Trane Q&A with John Scheinfeld MORE +
Cut Print Film: "That music is Chasing Trane‘s power: it seduces us; it awes us. It makes us yearn for more." MORE +
Criterion Cast: "Chasing Trane, director John Scheinfeld introduces us not just to John Coltrane the legendary jazz icon, but also the man behind the myths and the legends." MORE +
Cinema Scope: "Chasing Trane functions as a solid primer for newcomers, while its stunning performance clips, winsome home movies and teeming cavalcade of interviewees—will keep aficionados perfectly engaged." MORE +
Cinema 365 Review: Chasing Trane "The music is just incredible. The footage of Coltrane and his band is fascinating. The use of graphics is innovative." MORE +
Black Press USA: Chasing Trane "this film is illuminating." MORE +
Vanity Fair: "Hear Denzel Washington Speak the Stirring Words of John Coltrane in Chasing Trane" MORE +
Jazziz: Chasing Trane "an outside-the-box thinker with extraordinary talent whose boundary-shattering music continues to impact and influence people around the world." MORE +
The Grio: Chasing Trane “It was a place ready-made for the Blues, ready-made for Jazz, ready-made for people using their pain to catapult their art.” MORE +
WNYC: Chasing Trane "the master saxophonist packed his years with enough musical innovation for several lifetimes." MORE +
KCRW: Chasing Trane "There was nobody like him." MORE +
Indie Wire: Chasing Trane "legendary musical legend opens in Manhattan and shows unexpected initial strength." MORE +
The Village Voice: "DOC NYC Closes with Death, Heaven, and John Coltrane" MORE +
Chasing Trane: "The terrific documentary, directed by John Scheinfeld, traces the career of the great saxophonist and composer." MORE +
"Jackson" confronts the conflict over reproductive healthcare in America's Bible Belt. MORE +
BmoreArt: "Maineland is one of the recommended films at Maryland Film Festival." MORE +
MSG Networks: "NYC HOOPS STAR KENNY ANDERSON LOOKING TO PAY IT FORWARD," MORE +
Vanyaland: "Required viewing....approaches the meditative tones of Terrence Malick’s recent works" MORE +
Daily News Live: Kenny Anderson stops by to discuss his new documentary "Mr. Chibbs" MORE +
The New York Times: “Mr. Chibbs — the nickname Anderson’s mother gave him — chronicles a pro athlete in midlife crisis." MORE +
Mr. Chibbs "perhaps the best prep player in New York history." MORE +
Mr. Chibbs "a man who is on a life mission to change lives by sharing his." MORE +
Slam Online: "Watch An Exclusive Clip From Kenny Anderson’s ‘Mr. Chibbs’ Documentary" MORE +
Mashable: Mr. Chibbs "In many ways, it's a new twist on the classic trope of the fallen-star. " MORE +
Market Watch: Mr. Chibbs "an intimate look at what his life is like now." MORE +
FOX SPORTS: Mr. Chibbs "We’re all struggling in life, even if you’re a basketball prodigy." MORE +
Shooting Ourselves: A Norwegian guide to Beldocs MORE +
Los Angeles Times "Tuesdays TV Highlights: Jackson" MORE +
SRQ Magazine "Look at Mr. Chibbs" MORE +
Mr Chibbs: Yahoo Sports "Two Kenny Andersons. One for whom basketball was easy. The other for whom life is hard." MORE +
FILM WAX RADIO: Listen to the filmmakers of Bang! MORE +
Montclair Film Festival "I’ve never seen an athlete as raw and open as Kenny" MORE +
Mr. Chibbs: The Record "Montclair Film Festival opening night a big 'Step'," MORE +
"For former star Kenny Anderson, life has always been the most difficult game," MORE +
FANBOY NATION "Bang! The Bert Berns Story ensures that this overlooked master of songwriting isn’t overlooked any more." MORE +
GLIDE MAGAZINE: Bang! "Bang! is itself an engaging, emotional powerhouse." MORE +
Los Angeles Times: Chasing Trane "communicates something beyond words." MORE +
Observer: " Chasing Trane, isn’t just another jazz documentary—it’s more like a history lesson with heart." MORE +
Variety: Chasing Trane Review "even people who don’t “get” jazz can respond to" MORE +
The Huffington Post - Chasing Trane "Coltrane’s music was the spiritual expression of who he was. This film confirms it." MORE +
Film Journal: Chasing Trane "a stellar cast of witnesses and commentators" MORE +
Film Threat: Chasing Trane 8 out of 10 stars "a beautiful homage" MORE +
Jazz Collector CHASING TRANE: A REVIEW, AN APPRECIATION, A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING MORE +
Chasing Trane: Roger Ebert Review MORE +
AM New York "Coltrane documentary lifted with Denzel Washington" MORE +
Deadline: Chasing Trane "Denzel didn’t do it as narration. It was Coltrane, speaking" MORE +
Variety: Chasing Trane "goes beyond familiar chronological music-doc patterns" MORE +
Chasing Trane: The Hollywood Reporter "worshipful account of the life of the music titan." MORE +
Deadline: Chasing Trane "Scheinfeld lets the soundtrack do the talking." MORE +
Rolling Stone "Chasing Trane features a wealth of previously unseen footage" MORE +
Chasing Trane: Cinema Scope "will keep aficionados perfectly engaged" MORE +
Jackson: TV Weekly Now "an intimate look at the lives of three women caught in the complex issues surrounding access to abortion in the Deep South." MORE +
Mr. Chibbs at Montclair Film Festival "a project unlike any other" MORE +
Mr. Chibbs: The New York Post "Everything is on the screen" MORE +
Shingal, Where Are You? Digital Journal Review: "Taking the fly-on-the-wall approach" MORE +
RogerEbert.com: "One of the year’s most devastating and essential films... should be considered required viewing for every American citizen." MORE +
QUEENS CHRONICLE "Welcome Back, Mr. Chibbs," MORE +
Mr. Chibbs: "Kenny Anderson, former Nets All-Star, searches for redemption in new film," MORE +
Jackson: premieres Tuesday May 2nd, on Showtime: 7:30 pm MORE +
SEED Paste: Fighting for Seed Diversity MORE +
Bang! Film Threat: 8 out of 10 stars "a damned good one" MORE +
New York Post: How the Beatles helped ‘Twist and Shout’ conquer the world MORE +
Bang! Spirituality and Practice "Entertaining documentary about a very talented and unheralded 1960s songwriter." MORE +
Bang! Next Projection 9.4 out of 10 stars MORE +
NPR: Bang! The Complicated Man Behind 'Twist And Shout' MORE +
Bang! LRM ONLINE: April 26, 2017: Ed Douglas highlights the film in his ‘Weekend Warrior’ column MORE +
Bang! FILM JERK: April 27, 2017: Edward Havens highlights the film in “The Early Report for April 26th, 2017 MORE +
Bang! THE LEONARD LOPATE SHOW: April 25, 2017 MORE +
UPROXX "Reflect On Kenny Anderson’s Georgia Tech Days With This Exclusive Clip From ‘Mr. Chibbs’," by Bil Difilippo, April 27, 2017. MORE +
THE CULTURE TRIP "Kenny Anderson's Story Featured in 'Mr. Chibbs'," by Michael LoRe, April 27, 2017. MORE +
MONTCLAIR LOCAL "MFF: Former NBA star Kenny Anderson shows the good, bad and ugly of retirement in ‘Mr. Chibbs'," by Andrew Garda, April 27, 2017. MORE +
Cinema 365 Review: Bang! "One viewing of this film and you won’t forget his name anytime soon. I guarantee you won’t want to." MORE +
Variety: BANG! "It was a long time coming but the story of Bert Berns — genius songwriter, skilled producer and record label honcho — was a documentary that simply needed to be made. " MORE +
INTERVIEW: With new documentary, songwriter Bert Berns is not forgotten anymore MORE +
Village Voice: Save a Piece of Your Heart for Bang! The Bert Berns Story. MORE +
BRETT BERNS AND BOB SARLES SPEAK ON THEIR FILM "BANG! THE BERT BERNS STORY" MORE +
Film Journal International: "Affectionate but still eye-opening look at songwriter and producer Bert Berns and his impact on 1960s rock music." MORE +
Clip: Former NBA Star Kenny Anderson Comes to Terms with His Past & Looks to the Future in 'Mr Chibbs' MORE +
New York Times on BANG! "juicy showbiz lore...including much about the intersection of the music business and the mob." MORE +
Huffington Post on MAINELAND: "An eye-opening cultural commentary on two seemingly opposite countries." MORE +
Hammer to Nail: “Visual marvel...revealing perceptive truths." MORE +
Austin Chronicle: "MAINELAND serves to remind audiences of the power, and beauty, in differences.” MORE +
Moveable Fest: "A fascinating story regarding legacy in modern China." MORE +
International Examiner: “A gripping tale about two international students from China – Equal parts coming-of-age story and cross-cultural discourse..." MORE +
The Daily Dot: "MAINELAND is a genuine portrait of immigrant teens..." MORE +
Austin Monthly: 14 Documentaries Not To Miss at SXSW includes MAINELAND MORE +
FF2 Media: SXSW highlights outstanding female filmmakers including MAINELAND's Miao Wang MORE +
We Are Moving Stories: Interview with SXSW Jury Award Winner Miao Wang about MAINELAND MORE +
Sixth Tone: Documentary filmmaker Wang Miao followed two ‘parachute kids’ as they adapted to life at an American high school. MORE +
Women and Hollywood - Interview SXSW 2017 Women Directors: Meet Miao Wang — “Maineland” MORE +
ReelScreen - Interview SXSW ’17: Miao Wang tackles distorted perceptions in “Maineland” MORE +
eFilmCritic - Interview SxSW 2017 Interview: MAINELAND director Miao Wang MORE +
nsavides Podcast - Interview SXSW 2017 Podcast Coverage MORE +
NY Blueprint: BANG! Bert Berns colorful story stretches from the Bronx to Cuba MORE +
Screen Anarchy: A fascinating documentary tribute to an unsung hero of 1960s pop music. MORE +
WNYC: The Legacy of Music Producer Bert Berns MORE +
BeliefNet: If you like behind-the-scenes-of-the-hits films like “20 Feet from Stardom,” “Muscle Shoals,” and “The Wrecking Crew,” you will enjoy BANG! MORE +
Observer: The Mind-Blowing Story of the Most Important Songwriter You’ve Never Heard Of MORE +
LA Times: Movies Coming Out This Summer including BANG! MORE +
NY SPORTS DAY "Carroll: Welcome Back, Mr. Chibbs," by Lloyd Carroll, April 23, 2017 MORE +
Rewire: SEED - The Untold Story shares a lot of information in a beautiful, interesting and entertaining way. MORE +
TruthDig: ‘Seed’ Documentary Explores the David-and-Goliath Battle With Food Corporations. MORE +
CBC: A new documentary highlights the hidden work of hit songwriter Bert Berns. MORE +
FIRST TAKE (ESPN) "Top College Show In History," March 31, 2017. MORE +
CBS SPORTS RADIO: DOUG GOTTLIEB SHOW "Kenny Anderson and Mr. Chibbs Segment," March 31, 2017. MORE +
FOXSPORTS 910: FREAK NATION "Kenny Anderson and Mr. Chibbs Segment," March 31, 2017 MORE +
ESPN LAS VEGAS: MITCH AND PRITCH "AUDIO Kenny Anderson 1990 UNLV vs GTech & Documentary “Mr. Chibbs” with Mitch and Pritch, March 31, 2017. MORE +
"Kenny Anderson and Mr. Chibbs Segment," March 31, 2017. MORE +
Sarasota Film Festival spotlights the Florida community's diversity," by Edward Douglas, April 13, 2017 MORE +
Jill Campbell Interview," by Mike Blanchette, May 10, 2017. MORE +
"Kenny Anderson Interview," by Mike Blanchette, May 24, 2017 MORE +
DEADLINE "‘Mr. Chibbs’ Exclusive Clip: Former NBA Star Kenny Anderson Confronts His Past," by Amanda N'Duka, April 17, 2017 MORE +
The Hollywood Reporter: A cascade of memorable, and surprisingly personal, hit soul records. MORE +
Salon: SEED follows the unsung heroes protecting our food legacy. MORE +
Billboard Magazine: The music is unforgettable, but so are the colorful characters that populated Berns’ world. MORE +
New York Times: SEED is 1 of 5 TV Shows to Watch This Week MORE +
Little White Lies: THE LOST ARCADE one of 10 best films at Rotterdam International Film Festival MORE +
Village Voice: THE LOST ARCADE meets the open door, come-as-you-are community on its own level. MORE +
The Hollywood Reporter: THE LOST ARCADE will make you feel nostalgic even if you've never played a video game in your life. MORE +
The Star Canada: ELLA BRENNAN profiles a legendary figure in New Orleans cuisine. MORE +
Boston Globe: SEED The Untold Story highlighted in Doc Talk. MORE +
Otago Daily Times (NZ): SEED hopes to plant the germ of an idea MORE +
PBS: SEED uncovers the subtle connections between food and the natural world. MORE +
Guardian UK: Green journalist Lucy Siegle recommends SEED at Bertha DocHouse MORE +
Berria Spain: JACKSON wins Amnesty Int'l Award at San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival. MORE +
Telepro Belgium: HOMME LESS comes to RTBF as part of Millennium Doc Collection. MORE +
Counterpunch: The Bert Berns Story needs to be seen. MORE +
Ms Magazine: "JACKSON leaves the spectator a feeling of discomfort. But also the urge to change something." MORE +
Stuff NZ: "eye-catching, entertaining and frighteningly enlightening" MORE +
Film Ink (AUS): "heartbreaking and infuriating, Under the Gun is a definite must see…" MORE +
NY Times: At 91, Ella Brennan Still Feeds (and Leads) New Orleans MORE +
The Gate: Review of Shadows of Paradise at Hot Docs Ted Rogers MORE +
Huffington Post: Faith-Based ‘Clinics’ Want To Replace Planned Parenthood And That’s Dangerous As Hell and 'Jackson' MORE +
Screen Daily: 'Shingal' gets Special Mention at Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival MORE +
Huffington Post on Ella Brennan: "a highly entertaining and well-made documentary" MORE +
Indiewire: Iconic Restaurateur Revolutionizes New Orleans Dining MORE +
The Guardian: In 'One Big Home' Obama's holiday idyll shattered by local anger over outsize mansions MORE +
Mother Nature Network: 'One Big Home' profiles America's obsession with super sized dwellings MORE +
The Boston Globe (front page):Paradise lost - Filmmaker focuses on Vineyard's big 'starter castles' MORE +
The Inquirer and the Mirror: "One Big Home" and the trophy-house debate MORE +
One Big Home Wins Hampton's Take 2 Film Festival MORE +
One Big Home in Boston Globe: When talking the talk is walking the walk MORE +
One Big Home in Alternet: How a Small-Town Carpenter Took on the Mega-Rich of Martha's Vineyard—and Won MORE +
L'Etage Magazine: What makes a house a home? Interview with Thomas Bena MORE +
Eye For Film UK: "Intelligent and thoughtful throughout, One Big Home starts out with bias and ends up with one of the fairest assessments of a complex cultural issue seen on our screens in recent years." MORE +
Washington Post: TV highlights - ‘Seven Songs for a Long Life’ airs on PBS MORE +
National Post: BREAKING A MONSTER is one of the 10 best films of 2016 that no one in Canada has been able to see MORE +
Esquire: Breaking A Monster 1 of 10 Best Documentaries of 2016 That Are Trying to Change the World MORE +
Artsy: How Tony Vaccaro Went from Secretly Shooting D-Day to Photographing Picasso and Pollock MORE +
Paramais (Brazil): The untold story of a homeless fashion photographer MORE +
Deadline: Ella Brennan - Commanding The Table’ Docu About Restaurant Icon Lands Deal MORE +
Modern Times: The fate of the Yezidis at IDFA MORE +
KQED: Ella Brennan is "sumptuous...a loving portrait of the doyenne of New Orleans cooking." MORE +
Houston Chronicle: "New documentary tells colorful life of restaurateur Ella Brennan" MORE +
The Advocate: "A film made out of love for this unique woman." MORE +
Screen Anarchy: BANG! is "filled with great stories." MORE +
New York Times: Many Hit Wonder, Out of Obscurity MORE +
Billboard: 5 Must-See Music Docs at SXSW including BANG! MORE +
"Steven Van Zandt Inducts Bert Berns Into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" MORE +
Film Journal: BANG! is a "fascinating look at a rock-music impresario you probably never heard of." MORE +
SFGate: BANG! shines light on forgotten 60s music icon MORE +
Telegraph (UK): The man behind 51 pop hits MORE +
Village Voice: "Elegant, unsettling Jackson finds issues of class, race, religion, executive power, and women's rights to be tightly interwoven." MORE +
Criterion Cast: "Easily one of the year’s strongest documentaries." MORE +
New York Magazine: Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic, Captured MORE +
Cosmopolitan: JACKSON "shows what happens when women can't get the information and support they need." MORE +
Huffington Post: "A heartbreaking documentary portrayal of what abortion restrictions mean..." MORE +
Film Journal International: JACKSON "zeroes in on another face of racism." MORE +
Filmmaker Magazine: JACKSON is a "devastating account...reveals just how much the road to hell is paved with the best of intentions." MORE +
Newsday: UNDERFIRE is an important record of the agonies of war. MORE +
Boston Globe: UNDERFIRE is immediate and visceral MORE +
New York Post: When Uncle Sam called in 1943, Michelantonio “Tony” Vaccaro answered — and smuggled in his camera. MORE +
Time: A new HBO documentary examines the life and work of Tony Vaccaro MORE +
The Hollywood Reporter: Teen rock band Unlocking the Truth goes from near-obscurity to media fame right in front of the camera MORE +
The Playlist: BREAKING A MONSTER is insightful and brave MORE +
Village Voice: Teenage Headbangers Get a Music-Biz Crash Course in 'Breaking a Monster' MORE +
Guardian: An affecting, often hilarious portrayal of juvenile stardom MORE +
New York Daily News: Filmmaker Luke Meyer’s mesmerizing documentary chronicles the breakout of Unlocking the Truth. MORE +
Los Angeles Times: An inspirational story and a cautionary coming-of-age tale about chasing dreams. MORE +
The New Yorker: The Lost Arcade is raw and intimate MORE +
Los Angeles Times: Engrossing, unexpectedly moving documentary... MORE +
Wolf Entertainment Guide: This is the best art film I have seen. MORE +
Wall Street Journal: Film Puts Robert Cenedella, Art-World Rebel, on New Canvas MORE +
Washington City Paper: True to its title, Art Bastard's central figure is a tenacious character. MORE +
The Hollywood Reporter: An intimate portrait of the iconoclastic artist Robert Cenedella. MORE +
We Are Movie Geeoks: A lively, colorful and entertaining look at rebel artist Robert Cenedella. MORE +
New York Observer: Art Bastard - Robert Cenedella Has Never Been an Art World Darling, And That’s Fine MORE +
NPR: 'Art Bastard' - A Rebel With A Canvas MORE +
Blog Toronto: ART BASTARD is a visceral art documentary. MORE +
Globe and Mail: ART BASTARD is a vivid picture of an entertaining rogue MORE +
Fashion Post (Japan): HOMME LESS to launch in Japan MORE +
Cleveland.com: Rock And Roll Hall of Fame to screen JOHNNY CASH: BITTER TEARS REVISITED. MORE +
The Playlist: ART BASTARD Is A Loving Tribute To The Rebellious Robert Cenedella MORE +
Wall Street Journal: SEVEN SONGS screening should be sponsored by Kleenex. MORE +
Yahoo Japan: HOMME LESS heading to Japan for a theatrical roadshow MORE +
The Hollywood Reporter: UNDERFIRE wins Best Story and Best Cinematography at Boston Film Festival MORE +
Los Angeles Times: 'Seed - The Untold Story' affirms the hidden beauty of our food. MORE +
The Hollywood Reporter: "Engaging...a handsome and nutrient-rich look at efforts to preserve food-system biodiversity." MORE +
Village Voice: 'Seed' Is An Urgent Call to Stand Up to Agribusiness MORE +
New York Times: Five Great Stranger-than-Fiction Documentaries including AN HONEST LIAR MORE +
Boston Globe: Boston Film Festival features several outstanding documentaries including UNDERFIRE MORE +
Arte Fuse: Europe Celebrates its American Soldier Photographer, Tony Vaccaro MORE +
Rai (Italy): SONNY ROLLINS - Beyond The Notes is above all the story of a man and his relentless pursuit of perfection. MORE +
Vimooz: SEED - The Untold Story gets theatrical release in NYC, LA and nationwide. MORE +
Medium: UNDERFIRE announced as part of HBO Docs 2016 slate MORE +
Sky Arte (Italy): Europe pays tribute to the photography of Tony Vaccaro MORE +
Artribune (Italy): Caen to discover the great photographer Tony Vaccaro, the first European retrospective MORE +
Dina Magazine: SEED The Untold Story is one of the most important films you'll see this year. MORE +
Sundance: Seven Docs to Watch If You're Mad as Hell About Orlando Shootings including UNDER THE GUN MORE +
Zero (Italy): We're Still Here is special. MORE +
Realscreen: SEED-The Untold Jury wins Environment Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest MORE +
Caen: The 1st European retrospective of all of Tony Vaccaro's work MORE +
San Francisco Gate: Seed The Untold Story screens at Sheffield DocFest MORE +
Back Seat Mafia: Whoever owns the food holds the power in SEED: The Untold Story MORE +
Movie City News: For illuminating the beauty of our connection to the land the Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize was presented to, SEED: The Untold Story at Nashville Film Festival MORE +
Nova da Firenze: A major special event at the Odeon Cinema in Florence for the EUROPEAN PREMIERE of SEED the Untold Story MORE +
The Straight: Portland filmmakers Jon Betz and Taggart Siegel deliver a wake-up call with SEED: The Untold Story MORE +
Truthdig: Although it sounds like something straight out of Hollywood, the story behind “Operation Popcorn” is not fiction. MORE +
Guardian: Director of new documentary about gun violence in America says the National Rifle Association misleads its members and profits off politics MORE +
NBC News: War Wounds Resurfaced in 'Operation Popcorn,' Documentary on Hmong Arrests MORE +
CAAM: The Filmmaker's Approach to Operation Popcorn MORE +
Indiewire: Katie Couric Documentary Aims to Reignite the Gun Debate MORE +
Examiner: Unfinished chapter of Vietnam War in OPERATION POPCORN MORE +
Realscreen: Cargo heads to Norway MORE +
Almrsal (Saudi Arabia): A film about the life story of Mark Reay MORE +
The Hollywood Reporter: [UNDER THE GUN] couldn’t be more timely MORE +
The Guardian on UNDER THE GUN: ★★★★ absorbing and gripping MORE +
BBC: [UNDER THE GUN's] achievement is its deep understanding of the people who worship guns MORE +
Yahoo Movies: UNDER THE GUN is effectively unnerving, infuriating, and heartbreaking. MORE +
The Hollywood Reporter on UNDER THE GUN: Details are what make these stories so upsettingly relatable MORE +
Variety on UNDER THE GUN: Never less than compelling MORE +
RTBF (Belgium): HOMME LESS wins RTBF Prize at Millennium Film Festival MORE +
Realscreen: UNDERFIRE selected as 2016 MipTV Pick MORE +
ACLU: 'Where Are Your Guts?': Johnny Cash’s Little-Known Fight for Native Americans MORE +
Guardian: 4 stars...A revealing documentary about former fashion model Mark Reay looks beyond the stereotypes attached to the homeless. MORE +
Time Out: 4 stars. A moving, enlightening documentary about a homeless male model living on the streets of New York. MORE +
Bustle: Legal expert recommends DAVID & ME in addition to Netflix's Making a Murderer MORE +
Cinema Scope (Spain): HOMME LESS - The incredible story about Mark Reay MORE +
Humo (Belgium): Please pay attention to the excellent documentary, HOMME LESS MORE +
Il Giornale (Italy): From model to homelessness, six years in the street MORE +
SRF News (Switzerland): Homelessness and glamor in New York MORE +
Arab News Daily: New Film AMERICAN ARAB explores challenges facing Arab-Americans MORE +
Salty Popcorn: JESUS TOWN USA is an intriguing window into a town devoted to its faith MORE +
Epoch Times (Taiwan): He is a fashion photographer by day, at night he was sleeping on the roof of the tramp MORE +
NTDTV (China): How much can you pay for a dream? MORE +
China Times: Behind the bright lights of New York fashion photographer's wandering life MORE +
It's Nice That: HOMME LESS #3 in list of Top 25 Moving Image of 2015 MORE +
Exquisito (Spain): HOMME LESS, fashion photographer concealed being homeless MORE +
POV Magazine: Young Canadian Doc-Makers of DAVID & ME Break Out MORE +
Bianet (Turkey): BITTER TEARS will easily be understood and loved in all geographies MORE +
Glits (Mexico): Mark Reay, the fashion photographer who lived on the street MORE +
ABC The View: Model Mark Reay on 'The View': Subject of Documentary HOMME LESS MORE +
Trends (China): Tramp in the fashion circle - HOMME LESS MORE +
BBC World Service: The secret double life of a fashion photographer in HOMME LESS MORE +
News Dayoo (China): New York's Most Fashionable Tramp MORE +
CBC Radio: Former homeless model Mark Reay on keeping up appearances MORE +
Fame Magazine (UK): Mumford & Sons’ ‘Tompkins Square Park’ Features In Fascinating And Poignant Documentary ‘Homme Less’ MORE +
RTVE (Spain): Model of the day, 'homeless' night (VIDEO) MORE +
The Wrap: Ugandan Little League Team Makes History in Fuse’s ‘Opposite Field’ (Exclusive Video) MORE +
Hoy Cinema (Spain): The photographer and a famous actor who lived as a vagabond nights MORE +
Al Jadid: AMERICAN ARAB encompasses chilling violence, anguished self-examination, redemption, and renewed hope. MORE +
RTVE (Spain): 'Homme Less': modelo de día, mendigo de noche MORE +
GQ (Spain): The incredible story of Mark Reay, the fashion photographer who was homeless at night MORE +
Huffington Post (Spain): The double life of Mark Reay, the fashion photographer who survived six years sleeping in the street MORE +
Telecinco (Spain): Fashion photographer by day and night homeless (VIDEO) MORE +
El Mundo (Spain): Fashion photographer by day, beggar by night MORE +
Republica (Spain): Mark Reay, fashion photographer by day, homeless at night MORE +
5 Election (Italy): HOMME LESS - A Cool Documentary About The Life Of Model And Fashion Photographer Mark Reay MORE +
Marie Claire (Spain): Mark Reay, the homeless who triumphed in the world of fashion MORE +
HBL (Finland): New York's Most Stylish Homeless Person in HOMME LESS MORE +
YLE Fem: Successful in the day - homeless at night MORE +
Nederlands Dagblad: Homeless with a full time job in New York MORE +
BBC: New York's hidden homeless MORE +
Jerusalem Post: Spirit Film Fest features 15 contemporary films that aim to enlighten viewers about the spiritual side of life including PLANETARY. MORE +
SF Weekly: Yukking it Up With the Cast and Crew of 3 STILL STANDING MORE +
Film Kommentaren (Denmark): well-made...fine documentation of the way Brazil and its politicians played the game of FIFA MORE +
Washington Post: MARCH OF THE WHITE ELEPHANTS shows the dark underbelly of the [World Cup] mega-event MORE +
Doc Club: KUNG FU ELLIOT Video Q&A with the directors MORE +
Express (Croatia): Poznati modni fotograf šokirao: Godinama živi kao beskućnik MORE +
Studentskizivot (Serbia): Festival of American independent film in Belgrade features BRONX OBAMA MORE +
Redding: Prepare for night of laughs with 3 STILL STANDING MORE +
San Francisco Chronicle on 3 STILL STANDING: Super-fun documentary MORE +
SF Weekly: 3 STILL STANDING does a good job of surveying how the comedy scene has changed over the decades. MORE +
Indiewire: Woodstock Film Fest 2015 Features Record Number of Women Directors including Donna LoCicero from 3 STILL STANDING MORE +
Inside SF: 3 STILL STANDING explores the 1980s heyday of San Francisco's comedy scene. MORE +
Business Insider: This homeless fashion photographer is proof that things are not always as glamorous as they seem MORE +
San Francisco Gate: "A tribute to three comics who continue to plug away in their “Grey Gardens”-like comedy aftermath." MORE +
KALW Radio: "3 Still Standing" showcases Bay Area comedians (AUDIO) MORE +
San Francisco Gate on 3 STILL STANDING: A wealth of archival footage and interviews (Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, Paula Poundstone, Rob Schneider) MORE +
The Straight: A New York fashionista reveals what it's like to be Homme Less MORE +
New York Times: Anthony Bourdain has compiled eight films for the SundanceNow Doc Club including A MATTER OF TASTE. MORE +
Dagens Industri (Sweden): Ambitious, well-dressed and homeless MORE +
Metro News Canada: VIFF documentary follows semi-pro NYC photographer and actor - and homeless man - Mark Reay MORE +
KQED: Robert A. Campos and Donn.a LoCicero’s S.F.-centered ode to career stand-up comedians finally receives a theatrical run MORE +
Red Bluff Daily News: 3 STILL STANDING to take stage at State Theatre MORE +
Indiewire: Hot Docs 2015 Women Directors, Meet Donna LoCicero - '3 Still Standing' MORE +
Woodstock Times: Woodstock Film Fest announces plentiful bounty including 3 STILL STANDING MORE +
San Francisco Chronicle: Comedians whose laugh last laugh best in comedy documentary MORE +
Monte Cristo Magazine: Roof with a view - HOMME LESS at Vancouver International Film Festival MORE +
Realscreen: PLANETARY a MipCom 2015 Pick MORE +
Bitch Flicks: Johanna Hamilton’s ‘1971’ - A Thrilling Portrait of Activism MORE +
Forbes Austria on HOMME LESS: In the footsteps of a survival artist MORE +
Hollywood Reporter on 3 STILL STANDING: Heartfelt documentary about the San Francisco stand-up comedy scene in midlife crisis. MORE +
New York Times: Robin Williams the Posthumous Star of 3 STILL STANDING MORE +
Film Colossus: [3 STILL STANDING] is one of my favorite movies of the year. MORE +
Toronto Film Scene on 3 STILL STANDING: Perseverance has never been quite as hilarious as this. MORE +
Deadbeat Creative: HOMME LESS is definitely a fascinating story MORE +
EcoBlog (Italy): PLANETARY in international competition for Cinemambiente MORE +
Public (France): Mark Reay - De mannequin à SDF, il n’y a qu’un pas MORE +
Iceland Review: man’s connection with nature and the future of the planet, examined in Guy Reid’s excellent documentary PLANETARY MORE +
Reuters: Anna-Karin Grönroos director of ECOPOLIS CHINA discusses China’s eco-cities. MORE +
Nine MSN Australia: Meet New York's Homeless fashion photographer MORE +
Die Presse (Austria): Male model, 50, homeless MORE +
Street Roots: Life of glamour — and homelessness MORE +
Mega Shares China: Wandering photographer, homeless fashion city worker MORE +
Four Three: Kung Fu Elliot is a bizarre and engaging documentary. MORE +
Metro News Netherlands: Documentary about Homeless Fashion Photographer MORE +
Elle (South Africa): Fashion's Homeless Photographer MORE +
Interview Magazine (Germany): A film shows the life of a homeless fashion photographer MORE +
Dazed & Confused: Meet New York's homeless fashion photographer MORE +
New York Magazine: Eight exonerated prisoners on their FIRST WEEK ON THE OUTSIDE. MORE +
Red Bluff Daily News: 3 STILL STANDING to take stage at Red Bluff’s State Theatre MORE +
Yedioth Ahronot (Israel): 1971 featured, interview with burglars John and Bonnie Raines MORE +
Radio Paula (Chile): Pasó de la calle a la fama y lo retrató en un documental: “Homme Less” MORE +
Beautiful Savage: HOMME LESS is a beautiful tale of a life in the shadows MORE +
Conde Nast (Italy): From model to photographer, Mark Reay is the typical city man. MORE +
New York Review of Books: 1971 in The Years of Rage MORE +
CBC: David & Me documentary has happy ending after David McCallum's exoneration MORE +
The Iris (Australia) on JESUS TOWN: A charming subject...rather warm-hearted in its approach. MORE +
Bild (Germany): Beautiful, Successful, Homeless MORE +
Radio Zero (Chile): The documentary about a homeless fashion photographer MORE +
Vistazo: Mark Reay, the fashion photographer who lived homeless MORE +
El Pais (Spain): The fashion photographer who for six years slept in the open MORE +
Daring To Do (Italy): Mark Reay il primo modello clochard di New York MORE +
De Morgan (Belgium): Behind the glamor, lies an uncomfortable picture of the American Dream. MORE +
Haaretz (Israel): The story of actor and male model Mark Reay MORE +
Corriere Della Sera: Mark, the well-dressed homeless model MORE +
Beira (Portugal): PLANETARY selected at CineEco in Portugal. MORE +
ABC7: JESUS TOWN USA to play at Vaska Theater in Oklahoma where it was filmed. MORE +
Boston Globe: JESUS TOWN USA in Critic's Corner TV highlights MORE +
The Plaid Zebra: Meet The Model Actor and Photographer Who Was Homeless for Six Years MORE +
Jerusalem Post (Israel): YES Docu to broadcast 1971 as a part of "10 Days of Movies That Will Make You Think Twice" series MORE +
i-D Vice (Italy): Meet homeless fashion photographer Mark Reay MORE +
i-D Vice (Germany): Meet the homeless fashion photographer Mark Reay. MORE +
WRadio (Colombia): Mark Reay speaks about the documentary on his life MORE +
NewsTalk FM (Ireland): The Homeless Supermodel MORE +
Buro247 (Russia): The story of a homeless fashion photographer MORE +
Elle (Japan): we call HOMME LESS the big toip in August in NY. MORE +
Kafeteria (Poland): The extraordinary story of a homeless photographer. MORE +
Cropped Magazine (Germany) MORE +
Cosmopolitan (Russia): The most stylish homeless man of New York became the hero of the movie MORE +
Big Issue (UK) HOMME LESS shows that anybody can be affected by homelessness – and appearances can be deceptive. MORE +
Fan Cinema: PLANETARY selected for sixth edition of the Green Film Fest Buenos Aires MORE +
Overchic (Taiwan): The fashion photographer living on the streets of two-sided life MORE +
Planisferio (Mexico): LESS HOMME Another aspect of the fashion industry MORE +
i-D Vice: Meet Mark Reay, the fashion photographer with nowhere to sleep MORE +
i-D Vice (Spain): Mark Reay is a famous fashion photographer who has no place to sleep. MORE +
i-D Vice: street style - meet homeless fashion photographer mark reay MORE +
Lifo (Greece): Homme Less - The incredible story of Mark Reay MORE +
Hunting down a Chinese General’s American origins MORE +
Toasted (Switzerland): Between glamor and homelessness MORE +
Disassociated: The story of Mark Reay, the homeless A-list fashion photographer MORE +
BBC News Talking Movies: Homme Less in New York MORE +
BBC Culture: Homme Less - The homeless male model MORE +
It Fashion (Spain): Mark Reay, The Fashion Photographer Who No One Knew Was Homeless MORE +
GetNews Japan: The identity of the popular photographer who was "homeless" MORE +
Playboy: Meet the Fashion Photographer Who Happens To Be Homme Less MORE +
Spletnik (Russia): New York's homeless at fashion shows: the history model and photographer Mark Reay MORE +
Visionaireworld: HOMME LESS is a troubling contrast in the context of public appearances and reality. MORE +
10 Magazine Australia: Homeless Model Turned Photographer in HOMME LESS MORE +
Paste Magazine on HOMME LESS: "Affecting, thought-provoking...there are few other movies like it this year." MORE +
Die Welt (Germany): The secret double life of homeless models MORE +
Hollywood Reporter on HOMME LESS: An engaging and very unusual story of homelessness. MORE +
N24 News (Germany): Mark Reay in New York model, mid-50s, homeless MORE +
Vista La Calle (Spain): Mark Reay, the fashion photographer who portrayed his life as a hobo for the documentary Homme Less MORE +
Blick (Switzerland): Daytime Model, Night Homeless MORE +
Indiewire: Thomas Wirthensohn’s sensitively realized portrait, HOMME LESS explores the realities, perceptions and ways in which people are just trying to get through the day. MORE +
Fox 9: A model of homelessness - Mark Reay tells his whole story in a new documentary called HOMME LESS (VIDEO) MORE +
Freezlo (Greece): Homme Less - The homeless photographer who works with models and famous magazines MORE +
Playground Mag (Spain): The homeless man working for top fashion magazines MORE +
Roger Ebert: HOMME LESS is a fascinating account of a man who plays a role in order to hide the reality of his life. MORE +
Reel News Daily: HOMME LESS is a beautifully shot portrait of one man’s journey to not only survive, but thrive, in this big city. MORE +
WNYC: HOMME LESS Doc of the Week....stunning visuals, immersive jazz score, and an unforgettable lead character." MORE +
New York Times: Poignancy and pathos distinguish Thomas Wirthensohn’s polished documentary, HOMME LESS MORE +
Cut Print Film: HOMME LESS is deeply entertaining and frank MORE +
Bustle: 'Homme Less' Documentary Tells Homeless Fashion Photographer Mark Reay's Riveting Story MORE +
The Skanner: Homme Less, American Dream deferred documentary chronicling the plight of homeless MORE +
What (Not) To Doc: Thomas Wirthensohn exposes the dark underbelly of the American Dream in an often-merciless city. MORE +
Guardian: The fashion photographer who was homeless for six years MORE +
Rooftop Films / Film Wax Radio: HOMME LESS follows photographer, model & actor Mark Reay though a period of his life in New York City, where he lives without a home. (AUDIO) MORE +
It's Nice That: Mark Reay, the fashion photographer no one knew was homeless MORE +
Indiewire: Here's How The Award-Winning 'HOMME LESS,' About a Homeless Former Model, Came to Life MORE +
Flavorwire: HOMME LESS, an original documentary about living homeless in NYC MORE +
Nowness: ​A homeless photographer and the underbelly of the American dream MORE +
Unseen Films: HOMME LESS is worth your time when it hits theaters . MORE +
Vietnam News Go: Big surprise that fashion model is a homeless guy MORE +
Smells Like Screen Spirit: HOMME LESS will hopefully alter the political discourse on homelessness. MORE +
Realscreen: Sneak Peek - Thomas Wirthensohn's HOMME LESS MORE +
Fox NY: Life as a Homeless Model (VIDEO) MORE +
Excite (Japan): Published photographer in documentary film was homeless six years in the US MORE +
People Magazine: Man with Successful Modeling Career Reveals He Was Secretly Homeless MORE +
Tien Phong (Vietnam): Strange life story of homeless model MORE +
Modern Weekly (China): Eastern District of New York's most fashionable tramp MORE +
Power Apple (China): How bright decent fashion photographer turned out to be a tramp MORE +
24H Vietnam: Homeless "Silver Fox" Mark Reay shown in documentary HOMME LESS. MORE +
Viet Bao (Vietnam): Strange life of a homeless model MORE +
Village Voice: HOMME LESS is an adventure, a reason to despair, a chance to hang out with a great talker, and an often beautiful portrait of this city's promise and cruelty. MORE +
New York Review of Books: A new documentary HOMME LESS is a reminder of how far the homeless population now reaches n New York. MORE +
CBS Insider: The Highs and Lows of the Male Modeling Experience with Mark Reay from HOMME LESS (VIDEO) MORE +
Beautimode: 無家可歸的時尚工作者 《流浪型男攝影師》Mark Reay 穿梭城市的亮麗與冷酷 MORE +
Allas (Sweden): An Honest Liar is a unique portrait of the world's most famous magician and escape artist. MORE +
Centro TV (Portugal): PLANETARY selected for Cine Eco Fest, inspired by Pope's Encyclical MORE +
NJ TV: Falsely Imprisoned: The McCallum Case (VIDEO) MORE +
Scotland Herald: Will Durst from 3 STILL STANDING performs at Edinburgh Fringe Fest MORE +
Project Casting: The True Story of a Homeless Working Actor and Model MORE +
Reporter (Macedonia): Манекен бездомник: Денски сликал за Вог навечер спиел на кров од зграда MORE +
Blic (Serbia): During the day, I posed for "Vogue", and at night slept on the street. MORE +
Dagospia (Italy): Model and Tramp - Mark Reay Appears in Documentary HOMME LESS MORE +
Trazim (Bosnia): Male model Mark Reay is proof that all our prejudices are wrong. MORE +
GQ Brazil: Documentary shows the bizarre daily life of a homeless model MORE +
STYLE.COM (Arabia): HOMME LESS explores the wild contrasts in Mark Reay's life MORE +
Viewing NYC: 56-year old model Mark Reay is the subject of a new tell-all documentary entitled Homme Less. MORE +
Annabelle: With HOMME LESS first-time director Wirthensohn captures a raw and unfiltered moment in time. MORE +
Trendy Minuto (Venezuela): 'HOMME LESS', A Portrait of a Homeless Model MORE +
Metro TV News (Indonesia): Mark Reay, Model & Aktor yang Hidup Menggelandang MORE +
Dan Tri (Vietnam): Here is a true story about an elegant male model in New York, specializes in photography for famous fashion houses and lives homeless by night. MORE +
Paper Mag: Watch the Trailer For a Fascinating Documentary About a Homeless Fashion Photographer MORE +
Doi Song Phap Luat (Vietnam): Daytime modeling, homeless by night MORE +
Filmmaker Magazine: HOMME LESS is an expertly crafted knockout MORE +
Konbini (France): Docu - être mannequin et sans-abri à New York MORE +
F-Stoppers: The Story of a Homeless, Working Fashion Model and Photographer MORE +
DIY Photography: The Incredible Story of a Well-Known Photographer Who Kept His Homelessness Secret MORE +
GQ: Homeless Model's Years Long Struggle Revealed in New Documentary, HOMME LESS MORE +
Complex: Meet the Model Who Has Walked in Shows for Versace and Moschino But Still Lives on the Streets MORE +
Hype Beast: Meet New York City’s most handsome homeless man. MORE +
Dazed and Confused: The untold story of New York’s homeless fashion photographer MORE +
Daily Mail UK: 'Silver Fox' model who was homeless for SIX YEARS reveals how he would pose for Chanel and Vogue by day - and sleep under a tarp on a Manhattan roof by night. MORE +
Scallywag and Vagabond: HOMME LESS- Mark Reay homeless model that ought to inspire us. Read more MORE +
Curbed NY: HOMME LESS is a new documentary about Mark Reay, who for six years lived on the roof of his friend's East Village building. MORE +
Primo TV: DAVID & ME on VRT Canvas MORE +
A.V. Club: In 1962, the Williamsburg Bridge inspired a comeback—not indie, but Sonny Rollins MORE +
Mens Journal: Sonny Rollins, the Colossus MORE +
SVT: AN HONEST LIAR is a unique portrait of the world's most famous magician MORE +
Indiewire: HOMME LESS tells the incredible story of Mark Reay, a model and photographer MORE +
EV Grieve: Homeless model lived for 6 years on an East Village rooftop MORE +
Four Pins: HOMME LESS is quite a story, for real. MORE +
New York Post: "I’m a model — and I’m homeless" subject of HOMME LESS tells his story MORE +
Letras Libres (Mexico): Un Mentiroso Honesto MORE +
I'm With Geek: PLANETARY is a powerful cinematic work because it is a fusion of science and art. MORE +
Midnight Review: PLANETARY is a great introduction to the most fascinating journey one can take in their lives. MORE +
Fox Austin: Astronaut Ron Garan talks about the PLANETARY (VIDEO). MORE +
The Mind Reels: PLANETARY moved me to tears MORE +
Toronto Film Scene: Planetary is quite literally a call to arms for worldwide action to save the Earth. MORE +
Scene Creek: PLANETARY offers a visually rich and thoughtful experience that will spark awe and reflection. MORE +
Thirty Four Flavours: PLANETARY is a visually astonishing portrait of our planet is designed to humble the viewer. MORE +
Screen Daily: Cargo Film & Releasing boards Tony Vaccaro doc MORE +
Santa Fe New Mexican: Bruce Donnelly's documentary "Alumbrones" MORE +
Star Pulse: The Dynamic Duo Behind The Doc AN HONEST LIAR Share Secrets MORE +
OC Weekly: The Search For General Tso Now Streaming on Netflix MORE +
Examiner: Exclusive interview - Justin Weinstein talks about AN HONEST LIAR MORE +
Senior Correspondent: AN HONEST LIAR - Fighting Fraud with Fraud MORE +
TF1: David McCallum spent 29 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit. (VIDEO) MORE +
Daily Dot: AN HONEST LIAR the No.1 thing you should be watching on Netflix this month MORE +
SVT: AN HONEST LIAR joins summer season of best cultural documentaries on SVT Sweden MORE +
Context TV: Directors of TRANSCEND discuss triumph over adversity (VIDEO). MORE +
SF Bay VIEW: ICEBERG SLIM is an important in-depth documentary that analyses the life of the father of the genre now known as street literature MORE +
Martha's Vineyard Times: The Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival announces summer schedule, includes 1971 MORE +
CNN: Mistrust of U.S. surveillance has origins in 70s break-in MORE +
Financial Times: 1971 is an enthralling documentary about the burglary that lifted the lid on nefarious FBI activities MORE +
Radio Times: 1971 grips like a thriller...4 stars MORE +
The Times of London: 4 stars...1971 is a fascinating documentary that unearths the human story behind a burglary of the FBI MORE +
The Guardian: 4 stars...1971 is a compelling documentary about a real-life FBI scandal MORE +
Cinematic Randomness: 5 stars...MENA AT LUNCH is highly recommended viewing. MORE +
Perth Now: The story behind this famous photograph MORE +
Watch This Space Mag: I can only applaud Johanna Hamilton and what she has achieved with this masterpiece that is 1971. MORE +
Die Tageszeitung (Germany): In 1971, citizens subvert the FBI MORE +
Time Out: 1971 offers a remarkable insight into people power in action. MORE +
RobertEbert.com: AN HONEST LIAR makes list of 3.5 star reviews of 2015 MORE +
Triad City Beat: KUNG FU ELLIOT leaves (the viewer) surprised, entertained and utterly confounded. MORE +
Concrete Playground: BRONX OBAMA is a unique exploration of identity and artifice, of the illusive American dream and of social, political and racial dynamics in the US today. MORE +
Indianopolis Star: Opening night of Heartland Festival features a screening of 2014 documentary AN HONEST LIAR. MORE +
BBC Radio 3: Director of 1971 Johanna Hamilton discusses dissent and surveillance MORE +
San Jose Mercury News: 3 STILL STANDING revisits San Francisco's Holy City Zoo comedy club in the '80s MORE +
Style Quotidien: Exclusive Interview with Alumbrones Director, Bruce Donnelly MORE +
Good Men Project: PLANETARY hooked us. MORE +
Tribe Live: AN HONEST LIAR is a fascinating look at what the truth means MORE +
DokuMA (Croatia): AN HONEST LIAR announced as closing film for Croatian Documentary Festival MORE +
ABC Australia: David McCallum discusses exoneration on RN Breakfast. MORE +
Filmmaker Magazine: A Different Approach to Dissent” - 1971 Director Johanna Hamilton and Whistle Blowers on Government Abuses MORE +
Vestigo on DESERT RUNNERS: Their stories and experiences are captivating and to call them inspiring is almost an understatement. MORE +
LA Times on 1971: It's Snowden before Snowden. MORE +
The Mind Reels: PLANETARY needs to be seen and shared, and like the best documentaries, educate and create a dialogue. MORE +
Mother Nature Network: PLANETARY is a moving and beautiful documentary that doesn't ask us to save the world as much as reconsider our place in it. MORE +
Next Avenue: '1971' Reveals the Break-In That Changed the FBI MORE +
LA Times: 1971 is one of Monday TV highlights. MORE +
World Yam (Taiwan): American documentary filmmaker Ian Cheney to unlock the story of General Tso's Chicken cooking process MORE +
PBS: Nine Movies about American Radicals including 1971 MORE +
Tech Times: PLANETARY explores the history of the human race on the Earth...to what the future may hold for billions of people. MORE +
Variety: PLANETARY is a most impressive logistical and aesthetic feat. MORE +
World of Super Heroes: PLANETARY is an indictment of our lack of wisdom and a call to arms to those who would have it. MORE +
Wired: “Space travel fundamentally changed how we humans understand Earth and our lives on it…. PLANETARY examines that impact across the world.” MORE +
Examiner: PLANETARY is thought-provoking...visually enticing and multifaceted journey exploring the connection of all human beings. MORE +
Huffington Post on PLANETARY: For the first time I not only saw the fragility our planet, I felt it. MORE +
Way Magazine (Thailand): 1971 examines how a group of young people took on the US government. MORE +
Xnet (Israel): HOMME LESS - How to become a fashion photographer, homeless, living on the street MORE +
United Daily News (China): General Tso's Chicken was founded in Taiwan, but in the United States it became a puzzle. MORE +
Pretty Clever Films on PLANETARY: A wonderful breadth of beautiful footage of the planet, and a diverse mix of smart people talking to us about the world, humanity. MORE +
China Times: American documentary filmmaker Ian Cheney traces the origin of General Tso's Chicken MORE +
Yahoo (Taiwan): General Tso's Chicken midnight snack popular in the world MORE +
Rochester City Newspaper on AN HONEST LIAR: Satisfying footage of people getting their just desserts MORE +
We Got This Covered: There's a universal appeal to JESUS TOWN USA MORE +
Bangkok Cinema: 1971 in Bangkok as part of Doc Holiday series at SF World Cinema MORE +
Seneca Daily News on KUNG FU ELLIOT: A masterful treatise on the symbiotic nature of human dreams and deception. MORE +
New York Times Magazine: SONNY ROLLINS on Sax and Sky MORE +
The Seventh Art on BRONX OBAMA: A snapshot of a common man struggling to maintain his dignity and identity under the weight of celebrity MORE +
Globe and Mail on JESUS TOWN: "cheekily entertaining...the ultimate dramatic re-enactment" MORE +
Ground Zero: “An Honest Liar” is far more entertaining than most documentaries MORE +
The Matinee: JESUS TOWN paints a quirky portrait of true community and speaks from the heart to believers and non-believers alike MORE +
The Mind Reels: Jesus Town USA ends up being a lot of fun, filled with delightful moments, filled with themes of belief, and neighborliness. MORE +
Toronto Star: Jesus Town USA - Buddhist paper boy has faith he can play Jesus MORE +
Toronto Film Scene: JESUS TOWN USA is a great example of coming to terms with who you are and accepting yourself no matter what other people think. MORE +
YleX (Finland): James Randi from AN HONEST LIAR talks magic and skepticism MORE +
Toronto is Awesome: JESUS TOWN USA selected as must-see film at HotDocs 2015 MORE +
SVT (Sweden): Edward Snowden was not first. In March 1971, broke eight ordinary Americans into one of the FBI's office. MORE +
SRQ Magazine: Mark Reay Finds Contentment Sleeping On A NYC Rooftop in HOMME LESS MORE +
Red Carpet Crash: AN HONEST LIAR James Randi Debunks Tricksters And The Like MORE +
Real Screen: HOMME LESS selected as a 2015 MIPTV Pick MORE +
Mass Live: Ian Cheney dishes about THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO and the importance of food documentaries MORE +
The Hollywood Reporter: The myriad twists and turns of OPPOSITE FIELD are complemented by intimate portraits of the players and their dedicated coach MORE +
Tico Times: VANISHING OF THE BEES explores the reasons behind colony collapse disorder and its potentially catastrophic effects on ecology and agriculture around the world. MORE +
Global Comment: Thomas Wirthensohn’s beautifully crafted HOMME LESS follows the quintessentially eccentric New Yorker Mark Reay MORE +
Santa Fe Reporter: AN HONEST LIAR is an honest portrait MORE +
BoingBoing: Burglars from 1971 film praised on the floor of the US Congress MORE +
Dev Messi (Finland): James Randi from AN HONEST LIAR to appear at Think Helsinki, Think! MORE +
The Nation: What I Learned From Breaking the Law, 1971 Doc Subject Speaks MORE +
Alibi: 1971 is a searing portrait of still timely (hello, Edward Snowden) political rebellion MORE +
NPR Pittsburgh: From the Bronx to the Army to national stardom MORE +
Nerdist: The Amazing Randi talks about the making of his documentary, AN HONEST LIAR (Audio) MORE +
Valley Advocate on GENERAL TSO: From New York to Shanghai to the American Midwest, unfolding in a blend of immigrant tale and mystery. MORE +
Good Times: Stage magician vs. charlatans in engaging AN HONEST LIAR MORE +
Michigan Public Radio: 1971 tells the story of eight courageous citizens who unveiled the FBI's illegal actions MORE +
Ticket to Entertainment: AN HONEST LIAR - Biopic with a twist MORE +
HLN (Belgium): After nearly 29 years in prison McCallum was a free man. MORE +
News Australia on DAVID & ME: Letter that helped free prisoner after 29 years in jail for murder MORE +
UMASS Media: HOMME LESS is the story of failure and survival in the unforgiving city of New York. MORE +
ORF News: Self-Determination and Outlaws in HOMME LESS MORE +
Kyiv Post: BRONX OBAMA is a must-see at DocuDays Film Festival MORE +
CBC: DAVID & ME joyfully revised after wrongly convicted man freed MORE +
Washington Post: 4 stars. Truth and unexpected consequences: AN HONEST LIAR profiles James Randi. MORE +
LA Times: AN HONEST LIAR takes exhilarating turns as directors Justin Weinstein and Tyler Measom follow present-day developments in Randi's personal life. MORE +
Pasadena Weekly: 1971 illustrates what average citizens did to right social wrongs MORE +
Cleveland.com: 10 Films To Watch Out For includes AN HONEST LIAR MORE +
Philadelphia Weekly: AN HONEST LIAR tackles truths, lies and consequences MORE +
HeraldNet: KUNG FU ELLIOT spirals into madness, kicking and screaming MORE +
Audiences Everywhere: I did not trust this documentary. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy this movie. MORE +
Pop Matters on 1971: The story told here couldn’t be more significant or more timely. MORE +
Planet Siol: 1971 illuminates what led up to the first investigation into US intelligence agencies in its history MORE +
SFGate: AN HONEST LIAR - A magician takes aim at charlatans MORE +
Pittsburgh City Paper: BRONX OBAMA is an intriguing look at the bizarre intersection of entertainment and politics MORE +
Seattle Weekly: AN HONEST LIAR - Recovering Magician Turns Rationalist MORE +
New Yorker: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO is a jovial feature-length documentary that probes the origins of this iconic poultry dish MORE +
Deadline: Barry Sonnefeld to write and direct feature film based on episode in AN HONEST LIAR MORE +
Worcester Telegram: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO engagingly exposes us to culinary ideas that transcend food culture MORE +
Metro: Interview - 'The Amazing' James Randi on his film, AN HONEST LIAR MORE +
Seattle Weekly: KUNG FU ELLIOT, A Take-Down Doc Turns Creepy MORE +
Los Angeles Magazine on AN HONEST LIAR: An emotional finish that caused a standing ovation at my screening. It’s a great film. MORE +
Scientific American: A Plea for a Scientific Worldview from AN HONEST LIAR on Debunker James Randi MORE +
Denfri (Denmark): WEB examines precisely the relationship between new digital technologies such as the Internet, and the culture and the society in which they are expected to change. MORE +
Salon: Interview with James "The Amazing" Randi from AN HONEST LIAR, the new documentary about his life's work MORE +
The Film Corner on 1971: This is great filmmaking. It must be seen by everybody. MORE +
Ain't It Cool: The fact is you'll care about the folks in KUNG FU ELLIOT, and that's the key to its success as a great documentary. MORE +
Now Toronto on 1971: As a look at the earliest iteration of America as a security state, it's essential. MORE +
Filmmaker Magazine: Directors and Producers Tyler Measom and Justin Weinstein on The Amazing Randi Doc, AN HONEST LIAR MORE +
Free Thinker (UK): AN HONEST LIAR is a highly entertaining portrait of James ‘the Amazing’ Randi, MORE +
LA Times: AN HONEST LIAR lifts the curtain on some Amazing Randi secrets MORE +
Vulture: AN HONEST LIAR depicts a great American original MORE +
WNYC: World-famous magician, escape artist and master skeptic James “The Amazing” Randi with the documentary about him, AN HONEST LIAR (Audio) MORE +
Fandor: AN HONEST LIAR is the film for you. Intrigue! Excitement! Unexpected drama! MORE +
One Movie Our Views: 1971 is an impressive achievement... a powerful companion piece to the Oscar-winning CitizenFour, MORE +
Variety: James ‘The Amazing’ Randi Speaks at AN HONEST LIAR Screening MORE +
Huffington Post Live: James Randi explores his life and career exposing psychics, faith healers and con artists. (VIDEO) MORE +
New York Times: AN HONEST is a jaunty, jovial portrait with a surprising sting in its tail. Critic's Pick. MORE +
Wall Street Journal: AN HONEST LIAR deserves to be seen, and admired, for its own revelations MORE +
Philly Inquirer on 1971: Riveting, revelatory...3.5/4 stars. MORE +
SCRP on AN HONEST LIAR: The Amazing Randi makes magic, takes down tricksters MORE +
KCRW: One of the world’s most famous skeptics talks about his life as a debunker of frauds and the new documentary AN HONEST LIAR MORE +
Film International: KUNG FU ELLIOT depicts an honest view of dreams and their vulnerability to exploitation. MORE +
Consequence of Sound: KUNG FU ELLIOT lingers in the brain longer after the film is over. MORE +
Wall Street Journal: AN HONEST LIAR is a staunch defense of science over disinformation. MORE +
Star Pulse: AN HONEST LIAR Is Five-Star Movie Magic MORE +
Film Journal: AN HONEST LIAR is a contemplative investigation into the murky layers of deception MORE +
Scene Creek on 1971: Cinematically stylish renderings of true events MORE +
Huffington Post: AN HONEST LIAR is entertaining and touching MORE +
Village Voice on AN HONEST LIAR: Strong New Docs on Hoaxers and Debunkers Reveal a Country Eager to Be Fooled MORE +
Vice: Legendary Skeptic James Randi Talks About Magic, Fraud, and AN HONEST LIAR MORE +
Slaw Jack Punks: In this episode Matt Bauckman and Jaret Belliveau directors of documentary KUNG FU ELLIOT call into the show! (AUDIO) MORE +
Nonfics: KUNG FU ELLIOT tops Nonfics home picks of the week MORE +
New Yorker: 1971, including its cat-and-mouse aftermath, adds the intricate excitement of a thriller to righteous historical outrage. MORE +
LA Times: KUNG FU ELLIOT is an amusing take on a big dream MORE +
Willamette Week: 1971 is an important documentary MORE +
Slack Jaw Punks on KUNG FU ELLIOT: I was left with my jaw on the floor. MORE +
Karate Mart: KUNG FU ELLIOT Documentary Just Made The KarateMart.com Watch List MORE +
Action Elite: KUNG FU ELLIOT Exclusive Clip (VIDEO) MORE +
Tiny Mix Tapes: KUNG FU ELLIOT is charming, funny, inspiring, infuriating, and provocative. MORE +
LA Weekly: KUNG FU ELLIOT gradually transforms into a thoughtful examination of its title character's naïveté. MORE +
Maine Today: 1971 is a brisk, suitably tense tale of the power and pitfalls of youthful idealism MORE +
Huffington Post on AN HONEST LIAR: A stunningly beautiful, brilliant and poignant new documentary about James Randi...as riveting as any narrative film I have ever seen. MORE +
Winnipeg Free Press: Plenty of tricks and treats in magical documentary, AN HONEST LIAR MORE +
A Movie Guy: KUNG FU ELLIOT is a side kicking surprise of a documentary. MORE +
Examiner: 5 stars...Elliot "White Lightning" Scott is the perfect subject MORE +
Village Voice: Cringe-Along Doc KUNG FU ELLIOT Surprises with Its Depth MORE +
IGN on KUNG FU ELLIOT: Insanely entertaining documentary follows Elliot "White Lightning" Scott MORE +
Hollywood Outsider: Roundhouse kick KUNG FU ELLIOT to the top of your must-see list. MORE +
Film Journal: Whether you ultimately rule it fact or fiction, KUNG FU ELLIOT is one wild story. MORE +
Screen Relish: KUNG FU ELLIOT offers a lot of enjoyment from beginning to end. MORE +
Film Hamster Like one of those train wrecks you can’t help but slow down to watch, KUNG FU ELLIOT is a fantastic documentary MORE +
Film School Rejects: KUNG FU ELLIOT is a must watch for...those who love fascinating glimpses into human behavior. MORE +
Film Fan Dojo on KUNG FU ELLIOT: An amazing trip inside a world where fantasy and reality collide MORE +
Nuke the Fridge: KUNG FU ELLIOT Interview with directors Jaret Belliveau and Matthew Bauckman MORE +
New York Times: KUNG FU ELLIOT Documentary Follows a Martial Arts Enthusiast MORE +
Twitch Film: As a study of psychosis, of how we build our own narratives to shield ourselves from the wolves of reality, KUNG FU ELLIOT is dynamic, deceptive, and powerful filmmaking. T MORE +
Real Screen: The Orchard takes KUNG FU ELLIOT for U.S. MORE +
BOMB Magazine: Surveillance, J. Edgar Hoover, and effective activism. Interview with 1971 Director, Johanna Hamilton MORE +
Daily Rind: Martial Arts’ Next Big Thing - KUNG FU ELLIOT MORE +
Unseen Films: KUNG FU ELLIOT is as trippy a documentary as you will ever see MORE +
Screen Daily: Hot Projects on Screenbase include AN HONEST LIAR MORE +
Many Kitchens: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO is an absolutely brilliant film. MORE +
News Blaze on 1971: Whistleblowers Reveal Controversial FBI Documents That Shocked America MORE +
Film Views: AN HONEST LIAR is a fascinating, funny film MORE +
Ain't It Cool News on KUNG FU ELLIOT: Mark my words, you will know who Elliot Scott is MORE +
Blog Talk Radio: Law and Disorder Podcast with 1971 director Johanna Hamilton (AUDiO) MORE +
Big Picture, Big Sound on 1971: There is real tension here...3/4 stars. MORE +
New York Daily News: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO examines the origins of a popular Chinese dish MORE +
Hollywood Reporter on ALUMBRONES: A look at Cuba's diverse art scene MORE +
Runners World: Wesley Korir - The Politician as Elite Marathoner MORE +
Film Journal: Filmmaker Johanna Hamilton achieves something quite special with 1971 MORE +
Blog Critics: 1971 is a superb and thrilling true account MORE +
New America: In 1971, director Johanna Hamilton skillfully splices together archival footage and confessions (AUDIO) MORE +
Times Colonist on 1971: Genuine suspense generated during the heist matched by unexpected humour. MORE +
Santa Fe Reporter: It's astounding...1971 is a must-see documentary about this tumultuous period in American history. MORE +
Saint Augustine News: 1971 is a belated tribute to some fearless patriots MORE +
NRC (Netherlands): Unlikely skepticism Incredible Randi MORE +
What (Not) To Doc: The true power of 1971 is its reminder of the dangers of unchecked power MORE +
Independent UK: 1971 reveals how citizen burglars broke into FBI office and exposed huge abuse and public surveillance MORE +
WNYC: Director Johanna Hamilton talks about her latest documentary 1971 (AUDIO) MORE +
Slate: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO is everything a food documentary should be: entertaining, educational, and ultimately pretty appetizing. MORE +
Entertainment Weekly on 1971: A fiery truth-to-power documentary MORE +
New York Times: In 1971, Stolen Files Reveal Spying on Antiwar Activists MORE +
Flavorwire: The Case for Reenactment in Documentary Cinema featuring 1971 MORE +
Missoula News: Kung Fu Elliot is hilarious, but unlike American Movie the film takes some dark and surprising turns. MORE +
Village Voice on 1971: A meditation on how felonies carried out to expose greater evils should be less punishable. MORE +
LA Weekly: 1971 is gripping from start to finish MORE +
CutPrintFilm: 1971 is equal parts informative and exciting — a perfect blend that many documentaries struggle to achieve. MORE +
The Dissolve: 1971 certainly has the urgency of the past speaking to the present. MORE +
NYC Movie Guru: 1971 is "riveting and illuminating" MORE +
Unseen Films: The great documentary 1971 opens Friday MORE +
Yahoo UK: ALUMBRONES Producer Fermin Rojas on shooting in Cuba MORE +
Flavorwire: 1971 makes Guide to Indie Flicks to see in February MORE +
Copenhagen Post (Denmark): MIRAGE MEN pick of the week on DR MORE +
El Economista: BRONX OBAMA one of 10 documentaries to celebrate for 10 years of Ambulante Festival MORE +
Yahoo UK: GENERAL TSO Producer on how one American-made Chinese chicken dish generates $1B in sales each year (VIDEO) MORE +
MTV News Finland: BRONX OBAMA selected as one of top films at DocPoint Helsinki MORE +
New York Times: The Disillusionist, an excerpt from AN HONEST LIAR (VIDEO) MORE +
Wall Stree Journal on 1971: A mix of often humorous interviews, archival materials and well-staged re-enactments MORE +
Pasadena Weekly: Behind Every Mailbox and the 1971 Burglary MORE +
Der Standard (Austria) on HOMME LESS: The entire fashion scene seems to know Mark, but his other existence is his big secret. MORE +
Indiewire: HOMME LESS wins DOC NYC Metropolis Competition MORE +
Global Comment: Interview with HOMME LESS Director Thomas Wirthensohn and Subject Mark Reay MORE +
Village Voice on HOMME LESS: Joyous yet dispiriting portrait...about the struggle to live and to thrive in this city, in this country, in this world. MORE +
Daily Beast: HOMME LESS is a thoughtful, intriguing work, its vision of a life in New York boosted by an elegant, jazzy score MORE +
De Film Kijker (Netherlands): Interview with AN HONEST LIAR director, Tyler Measom MORE +
Variety on AN HONEST LIAR: A highly entertaining portrait of James “the Amazing” Randi. MORE +
Design Exchange Magazine: ECOPOLIS CHINA highly informative...highlights some of the ambitions, reservations and conflicts that surround the Eco-City topic today. MORE +
China Daily: In Pursuit of General Tso and His Chicken MORE +
Mr. Media: ALUMBRONES shines light on Cuban Art Scene (VIDEO) MORE +
Washington Post: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO, a fascinating, funny and informative documentary MORE +
Boston Globe: Ian Cheney searched for General Tso and his famous dish MORE +
Kekenet (China) - General Tso's chicken bizarre American Chinese cuisine origins MORE +
The Stake: As a piece of cinema, 1971, directed by Johanna Hamilton, is excellently made. MORE +
Philly Mag: John and Bonnie Raines - The Whistleblowers Whose 1971 FBI Raid Anticipated Edward Snowden MORE +
Taipei Running on Desert Runners: The characters are quirky and unforgettable, the scenery incredible and the journey humbling and thought-provoking. MORE +
Daily Mail UK: The mysterious history behind the massively popular Chinese restaurant staple MORE +
Desert Sun: AN HONEST LIAR has three acts with arcs that surprise and sustain interest like classic dramatic fiction. MORE +
Paste Magazine: 11 things learned from THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO MORE +
Pop Matters on AN HONEST LIAR: A profile in heroic rationality. MORE +
Globe and Mail: AN HONEST LIAR aptly seductive...an expose of trickery. 4/5 stars. MORE +
POV Magazine: AN HONEST LIAR feels like an enchanting magic act with its web of lies, cheats, and reveals. MORE +
New York Times: The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi MORE +
The Weekender: KUNG FU ELLIOT is a funny but all too poignant portrait of a pathological man MORE +
Daily Grindhouse: KUNG FU ELLIOT is a hilarious, shocking, depressing, fascinating look at a man sustained by a mixture of ego and delusion MORE +
LA Times: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO is a culinary, cultural odyssey MORE +
New York Post: 3/4 stars....THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO serves up the Chinese dish’s back story MORE +
NY Times: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO looks at Chinese-American assimilation, the useful adaptability of cuisine and the complicated cultivation of heritage. MORE +
Under The Radar: The Search for General Tso is as fascinating a documentary as it is unique. MORE +
WNYC: Ian Cheney and Jennifer 8. Lee discuss their new documentary, The Search for General Tso MORE +
Film Journal Int'l: The Search for General Tso is a celebration of a culture, survival, tolerance, basic pleasures and the rewards reaped by all concerned. MORE +
AM NY: General Tso movie a tasty treat...3 stars. MORE +
NBC: General Tso, you're a savory-sweet star MORE +
Screen Daily: KUNG FU ELLIOT is one of top films of 2014 MORE +
PBS POV: Kung Fu Elliot selected as one of best documentaries of 2014 MORE +
Twitch Film: KUNG FU ELLIOT makes Best of 2014 list MORE +
Vice: KUNG FU ELLIOT is the fight film we needed and deserved this year. MORE +
Huffington Post: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO is the must-see food movie of the season. MORE +
New York One: Wrongfully Convicted Man Discusses How He Was Exonerated MORE +
Telegraph UK: Sheryl Crow interview - 'I've quit letting people run over me' MORE +
Music News: Andrea Bocelli asks Lindsey Stirling to join him on tour in the UK. MORE +
Utah Radio on Lindsey Stirling: Making It Big 'Song By Song' MORE +
Classic Lite on SONG BY SONG: Viewers will hear intimate, behind-the-scenes stories from Stirling. MORE +
The Music (Australia): Electric Violinist Lindsey Stirling To Tour Australia In 2015 MORE +
Huffington Post: BLONDIE were right at the heart of the punk and New Wave music scene (PHOTOS). MORE +
Indiewire: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO Solves a Culinary Mystery MORE +
Deadline: Sundance Selects Nabs THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO MORE +
CBC: David McCallum exonerated after 29 years, thanks to two Canadians MORE +
Radio Canada on DAVID & ME: Guilty of Being Not Guilty MORE +
Le Soleil: The story of this man (David McCallum) is simply amazing MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: 1971 wins ABC Videosource Award at IDA Documentary Awards MORE +
Harlem World: BRONX OBAMA, The Man, The Myth Hit In Harlem MORE +
Star Tribune: Our president might believe he’s got it hard, but imagine the stress of being Louis Ortiz in BRONX OBAMA. MORE +
Ansa (Italian): WEB documentary on the digital divide MORE +
Yahoo Movies: Watch 'The Search for General Tso' Trailer, Uncover a Great Food Mystery MORE +
Zeit (German): Johanna Hamilton sheds light on the other side of the war - the deeply divided US society - in her film in 1971 MORE +
Tapei Times: Chef-creator of General Tso’s Chicken honored MORE +
The Coast: KUNG FU ELLIOT is one of the most honest and entertaining documentaries of the last decade. MORE +
The Perfect Day with Food (Poland): General Tso and Food Film Fest 6 MORE +
The Chronicle Herald: Deconstructing Kung Fu Elliot MORE +
De Nieuwe Reporter (Holland) on 1971: Without a doubt, one the best stories this year. MORE +
Tip Berlin: 1971 reconstructs an early case of data theft in the interest of the common good MORE +
Film Onet (Poland): On the trail of General Tso - Warsaw MORE +
Winnipeg Free Press recommends KUNG FU ELLIOT MORE +
Berliner Film Festivals (German): Be Mature As Human Rights Demand - 1971 at Kino Arsenal MORE +
Dutch News: 10 Documentaries You Must See at IDFA includes 1971 MORE +
ExBerliner: 1971, Analogue heroes MORE +
Repo Zine (Japan) on KUNG FU ELLIOT: Self-proclaimed, Canadian action hero catches blood of Japan MORE +
Parool (Netherlands): 1971 selected as another 10 films not to miss at IDFA MORE +
Good News (Estonia): ECOPOLIS CHINA to inspire viewers to decipher utopian ideas through the cityscape and its future. MORE +
DR (Denmark): This man lives by looking like Obama MORE +
Galileo (Germany): The man who looks like Obama (VIDEO) MORE +
Indiewire: 1971 nominated for Cinema Eye Spotlight Award MORE +
Kino (Danish): 10 Recommendations for CPH:DOX includes BRONX OBAMA MORE +
High Def Digest on KUNG FU ELLIOT: Goofy, silly, moving, creepy and always fascinating. MORE +
Moviefone: KUNG FU ELLIOT Review: 5 Reasons to Watch the Surreal Canadian Doc MORE +
Globe and Mail on KUNG FU ELLIOT: To some he’s a dreamer; to others, delusional. MORE +
Suduvos Gidas: Ecopolis China at the "Inconvenient Films" Human Rights Film Festival Lithuania MORE +
AOK (Denmark): Film, comedy, Elton John and BRONX OBAMA. MORE +
Indiewire: BRONX OBAMA and Whit Stillman walk into a Polish Castle MORE +
The Action Elite: KUNG FU ELLIOT is a surreal meditation on truth and self deception. MORE +
Republica Insolita: From the Bronx to the White House: The Surreal Life of an Obama impersonator MORE +
All Events: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO, a revealing documentary of this ubiquitous Chinese-North American food and culture MORE +
Cover (Denmark): BRONX OBAMA at CPH:DOX festival selected for Weekend Guide MORE +
Now Toronto: KUNG FU ELLIOT is an absolute trip...4 stars MORE +
Times Union: Lights and a lot of action - 1971 at Williamstown Film Festival MORE +
CBC News: Two Moncton filmmakers are winning awards at several film festivals for KUNG FU ELLIOT MORE +
Fakt (Poland): WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?! Obama will come to Wroclaw! MORE +
Silesia 24h: BRONX OBAMA, doppelganger of Barack Obama, will headline the opening ceremony of AFF. MORE +
Czas Kultury (Poland): The main character of "Obama the Bronx", Louis Ortiz, causes a sensation MORE +
Radioram (Poland): Louis Ortiz, double the US president, the hero of the 'Obama of the Bronx arrives at American Film Festival. MORE +
Radioram (Poland): Old friends and new, but familiar faces at American Film Festival - BRONX OBAMA MORE +
Wykop (Poland): Obama's Doppelganger headlines American Film Festival MORE +
Wyborcza (Poland): The audience welcomed BRONX OBAMA with a smile and enthusiasm at American Film Festival MORE +
Wyborcza (Poland): Even Obama came to the American Film Festival MORE +
Recenzenci (Poland): AFF 2014 - 10 must see movies include BRONX OBAMA MORE +
Wroclaw Nazemiasto: American Film Festival - a rollicking start with the ... Obama MORE +
Wroclaw (Poland): Louis Ortiz's visited caused a sensation as President Barack Obama's doppelganger MORE +
Polska Times (Poland): 1971 selected as Special Doc at American Film Festival Poland MORE +
Krytyka: 1971 revealed the scale of illegal surveillance of citizens and citizens of the US government. MORE +
Krytyka (POLAND): In BRONX OBAMA, how the "American Dream" turns into economic coercion. MORE +
Modkraft (Denmark): Political Cinema Activism in 1971 MORE +
Ambulante (Mexico): BRONX OBAMA, another adventure in another's shoes MORE +
Berlingske Tidende (Denmark): BRONX OBAMA - He lives to look like the most powerful man in the world. MORE +
Onet (Poland): MIRAGE MEN gave numerous examples of how American special services created myths associated with UFOs MORE +
Time Warner Central: DAVID & ME documentary brought national awareness to the case MORE +
Film and Tv Now: BRONX OBAMA - A Surreal Journey Of An Obama Impersonator MORE +
Berlingske (Denmark): The BRONX OBAMA from New York MORE +
Polska Times (Poland): BRONX OBAMA headlines the opening ceremony of American Film Festival MORE +
E Tudo Verdade (Brazil): Washington Post's Ben Bradlee, COINTELPRO, and 1971. MORE +
Indiewood: Interview with BRONX OBAMA Director Ryan Murdock MORE +
Gazeta (Poland): Barack Obama and The White House follow me on Twitter MORE +
Skip (Austria): In 1971, eight activists went on the counteroffensive. MORE +
Daily Kos: Exonerated - After Twenty-Nine Years in Prison for a Crime He Did Not Commit MORE +
The Atlantic: Life as an Obama Impersonator MORE +
Toronto Star: Rubin (Hurricane) Carter’s final wish granted as wrongly convicted man walks free MORE +
Huffington Post: UNMANNED focuses on US government's shadowy "signature strike" policy MORE +
National Journal: The Surreal Life of an Obama Impersonator MORE +
Guardian UK: New York man wrongfully convicted of murder freed after 29 years in prison MORE +
New York Times: BRONX OBAMA selected as TV Highlight MORE +
Boston Globe: Fascinating...insights into the nature of family, show business, politics, and race in America. MORE +
The Wrap: 1971 nominated for IDA ABCNEWS VIDEO SOURCE Award MORE +
Il Messaggero (Italy): In prison for a murder he did not commit. MORE +
Monde de Geneve (Switzerland): He spent 29 years in prison for nothing MORE +
Le Figaro (France): New York held an innocent man for 29 years MORE +
Die Welt (German): New Yorker free after 29 years in jail MORE +
Jung Welt (Germany): David McCallum free MORE +
Tages Anzeiger: Man sitting innocently 29 years in prison MORE +
Sud Deutsche (Germany): Acquittal after 29 years behind bars MORE +
The Cinema Kick: KUNG FU ELLIOT is the most shocking documentary I have seen this year. MORE +
Wroclaw (Poland): Bronx Obama comes to Wroclaw [VIDEO, PHOTOS] MORE +
LA Times: BRONX OBAMA TV Pick of the Week on Showtime MORE +
PRESSURE COOKER makes Flavorwire's 50 Best Documentaries of All-Time at #27. MORE +
NME UK: Arcade Fire member Will Butler has provided the score to a new film about a man who impersonates US President Barack Obama. MORE +
Hot Docs: Wrongfully Imprisoned Subject Of Hot Docs Hit DAVID & ME Freed! MORE +
POV Magazine: DAVID & ME Documentary Subject Freed MORE +
Festivalrykten (Sweden): Arcade Fire's Will Butler makes music to Obama film MORE +
Moje Miasto (Poland): Obama look-alike comes to Wrocław MORE +
Pitchfork Magazine: Will Butler from Arcade Fire contributes music to BRONX OBAMA MORE +
Huffington Post: Amazing Grace at David McCallum's Release MORE +
Think Outside The Box: Interview with ECOPOLIS CHINA engineer who designed the green utopia world MORE +
USA Today: Hail to the Fake! Check out Obama Impersonator BRONX OBAMA MORE +
Strictly Docs: The subject of the eye-opening doc DAVID & ME has finally received the justice he’s been seeking for nearly 3 decades MORE +
Rakyat Post (Malaysia): New York man cleared of murder after 29 years in jail MORE +
New York Magazine: Brooklyn Man Goes Free After Serving 29 Years for Murder He Didn’t Commit MORE +
Village Voice: There Have Now Been 10 Overturned Murder Convictions in Brooklyn This Year MORE +
China Topix: Man Convicted of Murder Proven Innocent After 29 Years Imprisonment MORE +
NY1: Man Who Served 29 Years on Murder Conviction Freed After Confessions Deemed False (VIDEO) MORE +
9 News (Australia): Man has murder conviction overturned after spending 29 years in jail MORE +
Jamaica Observer: New Yorker cleared after 29 years in jail for murder MORE +
New Zealand Herald: Man cleared of murder after 29 years in prison MORE +
Yahoo News: After decades in prison, man freed at NY prosecutor's request MORE +
My FOX NY: Freed after 30 years, McCallum makes first cell phone call (VIDEO) MORE +
Mirror (UK): Man wrongly convicted of murder freed after 28 years after new DNA evidence MORE +
WPIX 11: After 29 years, man walks free. MORE +
Boston Globe: McCallum was the focus of a documentary, DAVID & ME MORE +
AmNY: Brooklyn’s top prosecutor vacates the convictions against two men for a 1985 murder MORE +
CBS News: NYC man wrongly convicted of murder in 1985 ordered freed MORE +
Uptown Magazine: David McCallum’s Exoneration Fulfills Hurricane Carter’s Dying Wish MORE +
Politic365: David McCallum released; also the subject of a documentary called DAVID & ME MORE +
KABC: Man who served nearly 30 years in prison for murder was ordered freed MORE +
Sydney Morning Herald: New York man David McCallum cleared of kidnap and murder after 29 years in prison. MORE +
Asia One: US man cleared of murder after 29 years in jail MORE +
NPR: Brooklyn DA Works To Overturn His ‘Legacy Of Disgrace’ MORE +
CBC: 'Hurricane' Carter's dying wish granted as David McCallum freed MORE +
New York Daily News: 'It tasted like freedom'; Wrongfully convicted Brooklyn man begins first day of new life MORE +
Huffington Post: David McCallum On How The World's Changed After Being Wrongfully Imprisoned For 29 Years (VIDEO) MORE +
The Crime Report: David McCallum walked free in Brooklyn nearly 30 years after he'd been wrongly convicted of a murder. MORE +
Huisgenoot (South Africa): Innocent man sitting 29 years in prison for murder. MORE +
Think Progress: McCallum’s case was also the subject of a documentary, DAVID & ME MORE +
Irish Mirror: Man wrongly convicted of murder freed after 28 years after new DNA evidence MORE +
L'Avenir (Belgium): Exonerated after 29 years in prison ...! MORE +
CBS News: NY man freed after 28 years in prison (VIDEO) MORE +
Lejourguinee (Guinea): 29 Years in Prison for Nothing MORE +
Laarena (Argentina): David McCallum released after spending 29 years in prison on a false accusation. MORE +
Brooklyn Eagle: Wrongfully convicted defendant David McCallum wants ‘fair opportunity’ MORE +
Huffington Post: Ex-Air Force Law Enforcement Agent Says He Hoaxed Major UFO Mythologies MORE +
ECOPOLIS CHINA screens at 'T Hoogt in Utrecht MORE +
Herald Sun: 1971 is a piece of history and a thriller MORE +
iHay (Vietnam): Because of the similarity in Barack Obama, an unemployed man earn big money. MORE +
Northern Life Canada: Best of Hot Docs returns to Sudbury includes KUNG FU ELLIOT MORE +
Vorarlberg Online: Numerous prominent feature films and documentaries at the Vienna Film Festival including 1971. MORE +
Onet Film (Poland): The hero of BRONX OBAMA will be a guest of the American Film Festival - Wroclaw MORE +
Notable Canada: A Toronto Film Maker Got an Innocent Man Freed from Jail MORE +
Radio Canada: The documentary DAVID & ME has contributed to the release of American prisoner David McCallum. MORE +
People Magazine: The case gained national attention after a lengthy campaign was waged, which included the 2014 documentary DAVID & ME. MORE +
Toronto Star: McCallum’s case was championed by Toronto documentary filmmakers. MORE +
The Score: DESERT RUNNERS Sports Film of the Week - Make an hour or two in your life for this – you won’t regret it. MORE +
Glamour: Meet the Inspiring Woman from DESERT RUNNERS Running 1,500 Miles to Help Keep Girls in School MORE +
Washington Post: Conviction vacated in 1980s slaying MORE +
DNA Info: Bushwick Man Freed After Nearly 30 Years in Prison, DA Says MORE +
Le Journal de Montreal: Two former Concordia students contribute to the release of an innocent man MORE +
Guardian (UK): 2 men cleared in 1985 NYC kidnapping, killing MORE +
NDTV (UK): In New York, Man Cleared of Murder After 29 Years in Jail. MORE +
MSN (France): A New Yorkers exonerated and freed after 29 years in prison for murder MORE +
Klix (Bosnia): USA: innocent man in prison for almost three decades MORE +
Le Matin (Switzerland): He spent 29 years in prison for nothing. MORE +
New York Post: Man Wrongfully Convicted of Murder Freed MORE +
UPI: Wrongly convicted NYC murder suspect to be released after nearly 30 years MORE +
International Business Times: Brooklyn Man, David McCallum, Wrongly Convicted Of Murder Freed After 29 Years In Prison MORE +
RT: Brooklyn man freed after serving 29 yrs for false murder conviction MORE +
ABC: David McCallum out of prison after spending 29 years behind bars (VIDEO) MORE +
Daily Mail UK: New Yorker who served 29 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit walks free MORE +
New York Daily News: Wrongfully convicted Brooklyn man goes free after 29 years in prison MORE +
New York Times: 2 Brooklyn Murder Convictions From ’86 Are Vacated MORE +
New York Daily News: Hurricane Carter's dying wish is about to come true for David McCallum. MORE +
Connecticut Post: Brooklyn District Attorney plans to ask a judge to throw out the conviction of David McCallum. MORE +
BRONX OBAMA appears on Fusion with Kal Penn (VIDEO) MORE +
Zeit (German) on BRONX OBAMA: Obama Doppelgänger's Double Mission MORE +
Kultura (Slovakia): Do not miss the year 1971 MORE +
Yahoo Australia: BRONX OBAMA, secret life of a presidential look-a-like (VIDEO) MORE +
Progreso Semanal: BRONX OBAMA, the film MORE +
Made in Arkansas: KUNG FU ELLIOT must see documentary at Hot Springs Film Festival MORE +
FOX News Latino: Meet BRONX OBAMA (Video) MORE +
FOX News Latino: Hail to the chief impersonator - Documentary spotlights the work of 'BRONX OBAMA' MORE +
Het Laatste Nieuws (Netherlands): Obama impersonator entertains Chat Roulette MORE +
LaOpinion: Obama's double takes the Bronx MORE +
Club China on BRONX OBAMA: 43 year-old man who looks like Barack Obama on tour MORE +
Bao Moi (Vietnam): BRONX OBAMA has the opportunity to visit around the world as a presidential impersonator. MORE +
Economia Hoy (Mexico) on BRONX OBAMA: The surreal life of Obama's double MORE +
Notimerica (Spain): His resemblance to Barack Obama has changed his life. MORE +
La Cuarta (Chile) on BRONX OBAMA: The story of a man who is Obama's double MORE +
El Diario (Spanish) on BRONX OBAMA: Obama Brings Out The Poor MORE +
Global Comment: Being Barack: An Interview with BRONX OBAMA Director Ryan Murdock MORE +
Bergens Tidende (Norway) on BRONX OBAMA: Barack Obama in Bergen MORE +
Bergen P5 (AUDIO): Did you miss Obama? BRONX OBAMA visits P5 studio. MORE +
Vindkast (Norway): BRONX OBAMA about quest to become a professional Obama impersonator. MORE +
Revista du Cinema: DAVID & ME selected for The SCREENS - International TV Festival de São Paulo MORE +
Revista du Cinema: KUNG FU ELLIOT selected for The SCREENS - International TV Festival de São Paulo MORE +
Guiyang Network: American man imitates Obama in BRONX OBAMA MORE +
Huffington Post Live (VIDEO): BRONX OBAMA - Hail To The Look-Alike-In-Chief MORE +
Thoughts from the Lower Ground on ECOPOLIS CHINA: Zhang Yue and his yet to be built Sky City MORE +
Movies.com: KUNG FU ELLIOT named one of best villains from Fantastic Fest MORE +
Asia Today on BRONX OBAMA: Obama's World Tour MORE +
Madam Noire: Bronx Man Earns Over $60K Impersonating President Obama MORE +
Bunte (Germany) on BRONX OBAMA: Doppelganger makes career MORE +
OE 24 (Germany): Obama lookalike from the Bronx MORE +
ET Today (China) on BRONX OBAMA: Obama's twin brother? MORE +
Sabah (Turkey) on BRONX OBAMA: Nailing demand for Obama MORE +
Bronx News 12: BRONX OBAMA Louis Ortiz makes his living off likeness to President Barack Obama MORE +
Huffington Post Voces: He is Puerto Rican from the Bronx who imitates Barack Obama. MORE +
Mag 24 (Greece) on BRONX OBAMA: It is the doppelganger of the American President and the resemblance is amazing MORE +
Athens Voice on BRONX OBAMA: Bronx version is exactly like Obama. MORE +
Fred FM: Raidance Film Festival Podcast with KUNG FU ELLIOT Producer MORE +
The Movie Buff: MEN AT LUNCH is a great film. If you enjoy history, and a good mystery, its something you will love. MORE +
On Milwaukee: The story of these brave and bold individuals in 1971 is riveting enough to make history feel like entertainment. MORE +
Splash Studios: Serving up a feast on THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO (Podcast) MORE +
Borden Big List: KING CORN included in list of great documentaries that can open your eyes and your mind. MORE +
New York Daily News: Bronx man makes lucrative career as Barack Obama impersonator MORE +
WEC: KUNG FU ELLIOT is very funny and tenderhearted with added darkness. MORE +
Mild Concern: KUNG FU ELLIOT is an engaging portrait of a baffling man and I urge you to take a look. MORE +
CineCola: KUNG FU ELLIOT is a truly entertaining, gripping and at times surreal portrayal MORE +
Critics Associated on KUNG FU ELLIOT: 4 stars. A very intimate movie...simply hilarious. MORE +
I-Flicks: 4 stars...shocking, moving and gripping MORE +
Pro Expansion: One Laptop per Child, WEB tells the moving experience in Peru MORE +
DOG Movie Reviews on 1971: 5/5 - a great documentary that plays out like a thriller. MORE +
Crispy Sharp: KUNG FU ELLIOT is about the crazy lengths that some people go to to tell stories. MORE +
Frontline Club London: 1971 The Year They Took the Truth MORE +
Aftenposten (Norway) on BRONX OBAMA: This is a film about the American Dream. MORE +
BA (Norway): Bergen International Film Festival features BRONX OBAMA MORE +
TV2 Norway on BRONX OBAMA: What luck that Obama appeared for Louis Ortiz MORE +
VGTA: Louis lives by imitating Obama in BRONX OBAMA (Video) MORE +
New York Times: The Head-Scratching Case of the the Vanishing of the Bees MORE +
Critics Associated: KUNG FU ELLIOT one of six films vying for Best Documentary of the Year MORE +
Ain't It Cool News: It's got humor with tidbits of creepy all along the way...had me hooked. MORE +
I-Flicks names KUNG FU ELLIOT one of top 20 films to see at Raindance Film Festival MORE +
EnGadget: WEB shows how One Laptop Per Child has helped kids in Peru MORE +
The Next Web: WEB is a touching documentary about One Laptop Per Child and the spread of the Internet MORE +
DNA Info: Advocates hope DAVID & ME will bring more attention to McCallum's case — and ultimately set him free. MORE +
Austin 360: KUNG FU ELLIOT got Best Picture in documentary MORE +
Huffington Post on BRONX OBAMA: Director, Ryan Murdock explores issues of fatherhood, race, politics and the cynical environment that surrounds Mr. Ortiz. MORE +
Milwaukee Record: 1971 taps into political paranoia of the past, present MORE +
Pop Culture Beast: There is a lot more going on in this film than its cheery premise would suggest and I strongly recommend it. MORE +
We Are Movie Geeks: KUNG FU ELLIOT oozes with authenticity...4 out of 5 stars. MORE +
Milwaukee Mag: Moviegoers Unite, Milwaukee Film Fest Kicks Off with 1971 MORE +
True View Reviews: 4 out of 4 stars...an entertaining, but truly bizarre story. MORE +
The Movie Blog: KUNG FU ELLIOT is very funny and tenderhearted with added darkness. MORE +
Austin Chronicle: As KUNG FU ELLIOT unfurls, something darker and more disturbing is revealed MORE +
Film Dispenser: KUNG FU ELLIOT was the standout at Fantastic Fest MORE +
KUNG FU ELLIOT wins Best Documentary Award and Audience Award Runner-up at Fantastic Fest 2014 MORE +
Austin-American Statesmen: KUNG FU ELLIOT chosen as 10 to watch at Fantastic Fest MORE +
Wisconsin Gazette: 1971 tells the story of the Citizens’ Commission, a group of Americans who exposed evidence of widespread government surveillance years before Watergate or WikiLeaks. MORE +
Badass Digest: There is a lot to discuss about KUNG FU ELLIOT, and I hope to have great conversations about it in the future. MORE +
Next Projection: KUNG FU ELLIOT delivers on the “What the Fuck?” factor. MORE +
RoboApocalypse: 3.5/4...KUNG FU ELLIOT is a remarkable documentary. It's one of the most surprising films of the year. MORE +
Cinapse: KUNG FU ELLIOT is equal parts American movie, Gambler and Overnight and a must for filmmakers and genre fans alike. MORE +
Ain't It Cool News: Exclusive Clip from Fantastic Fest's KUNG FU ELLIOT MORE +
Selig Film News: Fantastic Fest Interview with KUNG FU ELLIOT Directors MORE +
Indiewire: BRONX OBAMA is about the joys, sorrows and struggles it takes to be an Obama impersonator. MORE +
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: 1971 is about the power of the individual to affect their time MORE +
Wall Street Journal: High hopes are evoked in BRONX OBAMA MORE +
DESERT RUNNERS to screen at Tasmanian Film Festival - marvel at the endurance of the human body and spirit. MORE +
Grolsch Film Works on BRONX OBAMA: Some stories are made to be filmed. MORE +
Variety: Ambulante California kicks off with BRONX OBAMA, Ryan Murdock’s funny and insightful portrait of Puerto Rican Obama impersonator. MORE +
New York Times: A Little Bit Country, a Little Bit Gay. MORE +
New York Times: Dolly Parton draws larger crowd at Britain’s Glastonbury Festival this year than Arcade Fire or Metallica MORE +
Flicks 4 Geeks: BRONX OBAMA opens first edition of documentary tour created by Gael García, Diego Luna and Pablo Cruz MORE +
Wall Street Journal: Filmmakers Michael Kleiman and Michael Pertnoy gave VIPs a private screening of WEB MORE +
BRONX OBAMA chosen for Bergen International Film Festival 2014 MORE +
1971 selected for Bergen International Film Festival MORE +
Yahoo Movies: In the Documentary BRONX OBAMA a Presidential Impersonator Hits the Campaign Trail MORE +
AMERICAN ARAB to screen as part of the Bright Light Series in Boston MORE +
Vue UK on KUNG FU ELLIOT: This jaw-dropping documentary takes us on a wild ride. MORE +
WEB chosen to screen at Social Media Week Berlin sponsored by Microsoft MORE +
1971 to open the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival MORE +
RT America on MIRAGE MEN: Did US government cook UFO stories? MORE +
Metro Montreal: DESERT RUNNERS might make you try even more extreme challenges. MORE +
Montreal Gazette: Kicking up the sand in DESERT RUNNERS MORE +
NY Times: US Justice Department examines how to fix errors like wrongful conviction. MORE +
Lien Multimedia: DESERT RUNNERS présenté en collaboration avec la Fondation Fibrose Kystique Québec. MORE +
NBC KGW: Impersonator BRONX OBAMA visits Portland MORE +
Kung Fu Elliot selected for Raindance Film Festival 2014 MORE +
New Yorker: G.M.O. stands for ‘God, Move Over,’ says Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva MORE +
Winchester Film Club: Nothing can quite prepare you for the life of Elliot 'White Lightning' Scott. MORE +
Portland Monthly selects BRONX OBAMA as Top Things to Do Labor Day Weekend 2014 MORE +
New York Times: Choking the Oceans with Plastic MORE +
Watch Salon (GER) on 1971: Women of the week - Snowden's smart predecessors MORE +
DESERT RUNNERS to have theatrical screening at Montreal's Cinéma du Parc with ultra-marathoners Claude & Jean-François Bégin MORE +
Mic: MIRAGE MEN argues that for years, the government has been misleading the public with fake UFO intel and evidence. MORE +
Misterio Red on MIRAGE MEN: Arguably one of the best and most serious efforts to penetrate the rabbit hole between misinformation and cosmic singularity. MORE +
Mono News: DESERT RUNNERS presented in association with Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in Quebec MORE +
Walla: BRONX OBAMA records special message for viewers of Yes Docu Israel MORE +
Hallels on BROOKLYN CASTLE: Watch this one soon and be inspired! MORE +
Ain't It Cool News: KUNG FU ELLIOT in first wave of trailer selections for Fantastic Fest MORE +
Guardian: MIRAGE MEN unearths compelling evidence that UFO folklore was actually fabricated by the US government. MORE +
Landlocked Film Festival announces screening of American Arab MORE +
Frontline Club to screen 1971: How one successful heist struck a blow at the foundations of a national counter-intelligence programme. MORE +
Pretty Clever Films: SOMM is intense, personal and very human. MORE +
Dear Cast and Crew: BROOKLYN CASTLE made me cry in front of a hundred strangers. MORE +
Rialto Channel: BROOKLYN CASTLE is insanely uplifting and shamelessly feel good. MORE +
Jerusalem Post: DESERT RUNNERS glorifies a group of runners competing in an ultramarathon on YES Docu Channel MORE +
JK Conditioning: DESERT RUNNERS is filled with inspiration, perseverance, pain, failure and is an emotional roller coaster. MORE +
THE BASTARD SINGS THE SWEETEST SONG DVD included in recent issue of DOX Magazine MORE +
Triangle Arts & Entertainment: BRONX OBAMA is at once hilarious and heartfelt. MORE +
Indiewire: KUNG FU ELLIOT selected for Fantasic Fest 2014 MORE +
BRONX OBAMA chosen as closing night film for Portland Film Festival 2014 MORE +
DESERT RUNNERS wins Best Cinematography Award at Woods Hole Film Festival MORE +
Variety: "Song by Song” will continue to let music drive the storytelling with Sheryl Crow MORE +
Variety: Sheryl Crow to Bring in Third Season of Ovation’s ‘Song by Song’ MORE +
Indiewire: Michael Moore Wants The World To Watch 1971 Today MORE +
ULoop: Traverse City Film Festival To Connect Audiences Around The World With Screening Of "1971" MORE +
Montreal Gazette: KUNG FU ELLIOT is highly entertaining, it will make you laugh and it might even make you cry. MORE +
Daily Grindhouse: KUNG FU ELLIOT is a sad, astounding, constantly surprising chunk of real life. MORE +
Unseen Films on KUNG FU ELLIOT: You'll be talking about this film for weeks. MORE +
9to5: Jaret Belliveau and David Eberts, KUNG FU ELLIOT podcast – Fantasia Edition MORE +
Paste Magazine: BROOKLYN CASTLE named one of top 50 documentaries streaming on Netflix MORE +
Breakfast Television Montreal: KUNG FU ELLIOT follows an eccentric martial artist from New Brunswick who is obsessed with becoming Canada’s first action movie star. MORE +
Awkward Movements: MIRAGE MEN is a feature documentary about the greatest real-life MacGuffin of all time. MORE +
Darren's World: The emotional consequences of KUNG FU ELLIOT are quietly gripping. MORE +
Better With Popcorn: 9/10... if you enjoy fascinating documentaries involving people trying to achieve their dreams, KUNG FU ELLIOT is very funny, entertaining. MORE +
Believe In The Run on DESERT RUNNERS: Director Jennifer Steinman beautifully captures each landscape and how each climate affects the runners. MORE +
The 13th Floor on KUNG FU ELLIOT: What unfolds will have you rolling-in-the-aisles with laughter. MORE +
Montreal Gazette: Fantasia Fest's essential premise of discovery includes KUNG FU ELLIOT MORE +
PBS: BROOKLYN CASTLE nominated for an Emmy Award for Continuing Coverage of a News Story - Long Form MORE +
Tessera: MIRAGE MEN is high quality, the interviews with believers, ‘secret’ agents and debunkers are balanced and unbiased. MORE +
China Daily: ECOPOLIS CHINA depicts two divergent visions for eco-cities that stir uncertainties about the best way forward. MORE +
DAVID & ME wins Best Documentary at Manhattan Film Festival 2014 MORE +
Showbiz 411: Michael Moore selects 1971 to play on all seven continents at the same time during Traverse City Film Festival 2014 MORE +
Flicks NZ on KUNG FU ELLIOT: You’ll be talking about this one to fellow moviegoers the second you get the chance. MORE +
Michael Moore on 1971: It's one of the best documentaries I've seen this year. MORE +
Lumiere Reader: Like the best awkward/crazy subject documentaries, KUNG FU ELLIOT makes for engaging, mouth agape viewing. MORE +
The Film Yap: Interview with Usama Alshaibi, director/producer of AMERICAN ARAB MORE +
The Film Yap: AMERICAN ARAB is relatable to audiences regardless of creed or culture. MORE +
Travel + Leisure: DESERT RUNNERS captures treks through the world's most extreme climates MORE +
Flicks NZ on KUNG FU ELLIOT: Documentary examination on Elliot “White Lightning” Scott – martial arts enthusiast MORE +
Sound on Sight: Fantasia Fest announces full lineup - includes KUNG FU ELLIOT MORE +
Free Press: Surveillance Lessons from 1971 Still Resonate Today MORE +
The Quietus: Music Video Clip from excellent film about the US Air Force and Intelligence services' manipulation of beliefs about UFOs MORE +
Sci Fi Bulletin on MIRAGE MEN: 8/10 - Much to recommend here for those wondering if the truth really is out there. MORE +
Galway Advertiser: SOMM - inside the world of the wine expert MORE +
New York Times: MIRAGE MEN is not quite a mockumentary, but it is surely the blueprint for one. MORE +
1971 wins Best Documentary at Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 2014 MORE +
RP Online: Louis Ortiz - The Barack Obama from the Bronx MORE +
Maryville Daily Forum: MEN AT LUNCH is a provocative look at the history of an iconic photograph. MORE +
High Plains Reader: BRONX OBAMA is a very warm, funny and thoughtful take on the contours of an American Dream. MORE +
Guardian UK on 1971: The parallels between Nixon-era FBI whistleblowers and Edward Snowden's NSA revelations are almost eerie in their similarity. MORE +
Financial Times: MIRAGE MEN is a hall of mirrors intersection between geeks and spooks MORE +
Film Threat: "4.5 stars...a blend of fanciful, cultural detective work and offbeat, culinary road trip" MORE +
DVD Talk: Fascinating and fun documentary about disinformation and the UFO community...Highly recommended. MORE +
About.com: DESERT RUNNERS named one of 4 Extreme Endurance Movies to Inspire MORE +
AmNY: Justus Williams from BROOKLYN CASTLE in running to become chess Grandmaster MORE +
Fox News on DESERT RUNNERS: Ultra-marathoners test spiritual and physical resolve MORE +
Action Hub: DESERT RUNNERS - A Look Behind the Scenes of the Documentary MORE +
Well + Good: KING CORN named one of 10 really important food documentaries every healthy eater should watch MORE +
Marketplace on 1971: The activists who changed American surveillance MORE +
Belief Net: 1971 selected as 3 Great Documentaries about the Failure of Law Enforcement at AFI DOCS 2014 MORE +
3 News NZ: KUNG FU ELLIOT is an amazing, unique cinema experience MORE +
NPR: BRONX OBAMA Lookalike Gets Around Town MORE +
Southpaw Filmworks: BRONX OBAMA an engaging and entertaining documentary MORE +
Washington Post: BRONX OBAMA tries to pull one over on the Secret Service MORE +
Huffington Post: DESERT RUNNERS selected as one of top 10 documentaries of 2013 MORE +
Washington Post: In an uncanny instance of past-is-prologue juxtaposition...the riveting “1971” revisited the fascinating case of antiwar activists who plundered a Pennsylvania FBI office MORE +
TEDxTalks: DESERT RUNNERS Director Jennifer Steinman on living life "beyond the edge." MORE +
Stage Buddy: WEB offers a firsthand look into the lives of Peruvian villagers...to broach broader questions about connectivity MORE +
Forbes on WEB: What it means for the whole word to get online MORE +
Miami New Times on WEB: A sprightly documentary pondering the notion of globalization MORE +
Backpacker Magazine: DESERT RUNNERS is a propulsive and inspiring look at the lives of those who stretch endurance to the breaking point. MORE +
DC Outlook: 5 Questions with 1971 Director, Johanna Hamilton from AFI DOCS MORE +
DC Outlook: 5 Questions with BRONX OBAMA director Ryan Murdock MORE +
Brooklyn Brief: DAVID & ME Is A Heartbreaking, Urgent Call For Justice For a Wrongfully Convicted Man MORE +
Sport Magazine: DESERT RUNNERS is a story about life beyond the comfort zone MORE +
Fit Bottomed Girls: DESERT RUNNERS is brutally brilliant — you really get a sense for what these deserts are like. MORE +
Letterboxd: DESERT RUNNERS is an intimate view into the complex ways human beings deal with heartbreak and triumph. MORE +
Female First: DESERT RUNNERS is a powerful movie about human stories MORE +
Hiking The Trail: DESERT RUNNERS shows the spirit of the athletes as well as the spirit of the races MORE +
GQ Magazine on DESERT RUNNERS: You are hooked from the first minute MORE +
Hey U Guys: DESERT RUNNERS is an astonishing piece of work, as spectacular as it is emotionally exhausting, as dynamic as it is rooted in the moment. MORE +
Cinedelphia: KUNG FU ELLIOT is the perfect subject, and the filmmakers capture the balance between his questionable idiosyncrasies and admirable spirit MORE +
Washington City Paper: 1971 is a deep discussion of the risks these young men and women took MORE +
DCist: 1971 succeeds in adding important context to the country’s ongoing intelligence conundrum. MORE +
DCist: BRONX OBAMA is thoughtful and well-done MORE +
Washington City Paper: BRONX OBAMA is riveting to the end MORE +
Design Curial: ECOPOLIS CHINA explores the problems facing the environment of the world at large MORE +
NY Daily News: DAVID & ME is a classic tale of injustice MORE +
Bedford & Bowery: Has a Bushwick Man Served 29 Years For a Murder He Didn’t Commit? MORE +
Scout Mob: BRONX OBAMA is equal parts funny, sad, and heartwarming MORE +
Washingtonian on BRONX OBAMA: Moments of levity and plenty of visual humor. MORE +
Montclair Times on BRONX OBAMA: Obama's American Dream personified in impersonation MORE +
Washington Post: 1971 selected as What To See at AFI DOCS 2014 MORE +
Gazette Net: New documentary on 1971 burglary among AFI DOCS highlights MORE +
Hey U Guys: 1971 is a beautifully constructed, meticulous account of the break-in MORE +
Washington Post: BRONX OBAMA selected as What To See at AFI DOCS 2014 MORE +
Washingtonian: 1971 is a compelling documentary that provides a powerful perspective MORE +
Guardian: A new documentary ECOPOLIS CHINA goes behind the scenes of the great Chinese eco gold rush MORE +
Seattle Film Co: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO is a surprisingly educational (and entertaining) film MORE +
SOMM wins best story at Oenovideo Wine Film Festival 2014. MORE +
Filmmaker Magazine: 1971 Director Johanna Hamilton and Whistle Blowers on Government Abuses MORE +
T Mak World: 4/5...DAVID & ME is a David versus Goliath struggle to shed more light on a flawed system. MORE +
The Triangle: DESERT RUNNERS shines a light on extreme marathons MORE +
Variety on 1971: A well-constructed, vividly detailed account of the FBI break-in that exposed the agency's shocking illegal practices to the public. MORE +
The Hollywood Reporter: 1971 deserves big-screen exposure MORE +
The Wrap on 1971 : An examination of the abuses of government power that could hardly be timelier MORE +
Forbes: 1971 FBI Break-In Traces Path to Snowden & Wikileaks MORE +
Pop Matters: 1971 crafts a thrilling lesson about how authoritarianism can be curbed, sometimes, by one simple and well-targeted blow. MORE +
Indiewire: 1971 is an incendiary political documentary MORE +
Sheffield Morning Daily: 1971 is a reminder of cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead’s words: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. MORE +
WIP: 1971 tells a riveting story and should create quite a stir. MORE +
Scribe Hard on Film: Kung Fu Elliot is a documentary with some serious game. MORE +
Embarr Films on DESERT RUNNERS: Eventful, emotional and exhilarating. MORE +
Guardian Guide: MIRAGE MEN pulls the rug out from under your feet. MORE +
Museum of the Weird: MIRAGE MEN exposes UFO hoaxes MORE +
Runners High: DESERT RUNNERS is a kaleidoscope of emotions, in which anger, pain, joy and sorrow go hand in hand. MORE +
Globe and Mail: DAVID & ME film seeks to exonerate imprisoned Brooklyn man MORE +
New York Times: Even With Dying Boxer’s Appeal, a Tough Road Ahead for Convicted Man MORE +
VICE: BRONX OBAMA is an intricate and compelling documentary that deftly weaves together multiple narrative layers—the American Dream, surrealism, fatherhood, race relations, celebrity MORE +
Here is VOD: MIRAGE MEN is a true story that is part Manchurian Candidate and part Close Encounters of the Third Kind. MORE +
Huffington Post: DAVID & ME is a powerful, new documentary MORE +
Skon Movies: The continued hope that David will someday be free makes DAVID & ME a film well worth watching. MORE +
Toronto Film Scene: DAVID & ME works on two levels: as a riveting true-crime investigation and a tender story of an unlikely friendship. MORE +
The Movie Scrutineer: DAVID & ME is touching and very well-constructed, and well worth the watch. MORE +
We Got This Covered: DAVID & ME is a beautiful, life affirming work from beginning to end. MORE +
WE Got This Covered on BRONX OBAMA: Hollywood itself couldn’t have crafted a more perfectly sad story and equally deserved triumph MORE +
Dork Shelf: BRONX OBAMA succeeds on several levels and will even appeal to audiences with little or no interest in politics. MORE +
Vox Magazine: Thoughtful, poignant, and funny, BRONX OBAMA is a moving portrait of a man with the audacity to fight for his own American dream. MORE +
Pretty Clever Films: BRONX OBAMA touches on issues of identity, sacrifice, and the American dream. MORE +
York Region: Canadians win big at Slamdance Film Festival with KUNG FU ELLIOT MORE +
The Hollywood Reporter: The Search for General Tso is as much an immigration history as a culinary one MORE +
Screen Daily: Doc specialist Cargo picks up trio MORE +
Real Screen: Cargo Film takes int’l rights for “1971,” “Bronx Obama,” “David & Me” MORE +
Skeptoid: MIRAGE MEN spreads a thick new layer of mythology over the history of UFO culture in the United States. MORE +
Giant Freaking Robot: MIRAGE MEN is a captivating look at the process of how the government manipulates the public consciousness, playing on paranoia, delusion, desperation, and a fanatical commitment. MORE +
You Won Cannes: Wherever the truth lies MIRAGE MEN is certainly interesting MORE +
Three Imaginary Girls: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO is unwaveringly fascinating and unexpectedly suspenseful from titles to curtain. MORE +
Scene Creek: 4 out of 5 stars for KUNG FU ELLIOT MORE +
FilmFestivals.com: The Search for General Tso is a tangy mix of tender enjoyment and crisply done nutrition to sink our teeth into. MORE +
Movies.com: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO Reveals the Real Story Behind Your Favorite Chinese Food MORE +
The Sun Break: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO is a fun and interesting ride for food lovers and non-lovers alike. MORE +
Seattle Met: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO examines the American obsession with the Chinese dish and attempts to uncover its origins. MORE +
JB Spins: KUNG FU ELLIOT is dramatic stuff and a not inconsiderable feat of filmmaking MORE +
Slug Magazine: KUNG FU ELLIOT directors Belliveau and Bauckman deserve two snaps up for editing this film, as it unfolds beautifully. MORE +
Movies.com on KUNG FU ELLIOT: This is the sort of doc that could eventually become a cult hit. MORE +
Vice: KUNG FU ELLIOT is as entertaining as reality television, but with a sensitivity and thoughtfulness that provokes meditation on the nature of truth, and the desire for fame. MORE +
US China Press: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO tells the story of Chinese immigrants MORE +
LA Canyon News: The documentary THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO is a winner in my book. MORE +
LA Post Examiner on UNMANNED: Drones don't keep us safer MORE +
Express Tribune: UNMANNED: AMERICA'S DRONE WARS takes a critical view of the air strikes MORE +
The Hindu: Don’t link peace talks to drone strikes. MORE +
Voice of Russia: UNMANNED by Robert Greenwald exposes the truth about the US counter-terror policy in Pakistan. MORE +
The Nation: UNMANNED Highlights the Human Cost of Drone Warfare MORE +
US News & World Reports: Boots on the Ground, Not Unmanned Robots in the Sky MORE +
Guardian: Family of grandmother killed in US drone strike arrive for Congress visit MORE +
Politico: Drone documentary UNMANNED coming to Hill MORE +
MSNBC: Martin Bashir interviews UNMANNED director, Robert Greenwald MORE +
CNN: Drone attack survivors take their story to Washington MORE +
Huffington Post: Secret Mind Games Behind Drone Wars in UNMANNED MORE +
Democracy Now!: UNMANNED & The Rising Resistance to Obama’s Drone Wars MORE +
The Dawn on UNMANNED: The documentary is certainly deeply affecting MORE +
The International News on UNMANNED: A moving documentary directed by US filmmaker Robert Greenwald highlights the plight of innocent drone victims MORE +
The Nation: Throughout UNMANNED, Greenwald intersperses in-depth interviews with never-before-seen footage MORE +
Muslim Link: 9 Year Old Drone Survivor's Story Told in UNMANNED: AMERICA'S DRONE WARS MORE +
Daily Mirror: Russell Brand supports UNMANNED documentary about America's Drone Wars MORE +
New Statesman: UNMANNED builds case against America’s drone war and it does so with immense power and anger. MORE +
CCTV: UNMANNED - Documentary on Pakistani citizens' experiences in attacks MORE +
CCTV: Jessica Stone Interviews Robert Greenwald about UNMANNED MORE +
Press Tribune: Documentary on Drones - Imran Khan 'proud' of Jemima's work on UNMANNED MORE +
Right Now: WEB tackles the online world, the technological age, and our ever-changing notions of interdependence and personal connections. MORE +
Reap Magazine: WEB explores technology and connectivity MORE +
Filmmaker Magazine: Interview with WEB director, Michael Kleiman, on connectivity and social documentary. MORE +
Digital Journal: KUNG FU ELLIOT is a special movie that fits neatly within the adage: "You just can't write this stuff." MORE +
Wylie Writes: KUNG FU ELLIOT will undoubtably earn cult notoriety...it’ll make your head spin. MORE +
Straight.com: The subject matter of MIRAGE MEN sounds ludicrous on its face, but the implications are stunning. MORE +
Canadian Film Review: KUNG FU ELLIOT examines the fine line that exists between dream and delusion. MORE +
The Mind Reels: KUNG FU ELLIOT is fun, earnest, honest, funny, revealing, and troubling. MORE +
Toronto Star: KUNG FU ELLIOT is troubling but thoroughly engaging viewing MORE +
Toronto Film Scene: Interview with KUNG FU ELLIOT directors, Matthew Bauckman & Jaret Belliveau MORE +
Toronto Film Scene: KUNG FU ELLIOT is one of the most unforgettable documentary subjects in years. MORE +
Cinema Axis: KUNG FU ELLIOT is a film with far more depth than its humorous exterior suggests MORE +
Black Sheep Reviews: Get ready to go on the journey of a lifetime with KUNG FU ELLIOT MORE +
One Movie, Five Views: KUNG FU ELLIOT is a shocking and wildly entertaining documentary MORE +
Star News: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO tracks origins of take-out favorite MORE +
FernTV: KUNG FU ELLIOT is such a knockout of a story and not just a cheap sweep of the leg. MORE +
POV Magazine: KUNG FU ELLIOT is a striking performance that reveals the fictions people invent when they’re placed before a camera MORE +
National Post: KUNG FU ELLIOT makes list of ten to see at this year’s Hot Docs festival MORE +
The Grid: KUNG FU ELLIOT one of 10 movies you must see at HotDocs 2014 MORE +
BlogTO: KUNG FU ELLIOT selected as one of Top 5 films to see at HotDocs 2014 MORE +
Voices of NY: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO pieces together a picture of how this quintessential dish originated and came to dominate Chinese restaurants across the U.S. MORE +
Variety on THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO: The complex history of Chinese-American relations in a finger-lickin' good foodie documentary MORE +
AM New York: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO - what you didn't know about the famous dish MORE +
Active Life: Behind-the-scenes perspective from DESERT RUNNERS director Jennifer Steinman MORE +
The Daily Beast: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO - The Origins of America’s Favorite Chinese Dish MORE +
Now Toronto: KUNG FU ELLIOT delivers huge laughs and a palpable underlying sadness. MORE +
Galo Magazine: Interview with THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO director Ian Cheney MORE +
Toronto Star: KUNG FU ELLIOT makes must-see list at HotDocs 2014 MORE +
Dork Shelf: KUNG FU ELLIOT is a character study that lands somewhere between charming comedy and unsettling psychodrama. MORE +
Fresh Roasted Films: KUNG FU ELLIOT is a character study that will stay with you. MORE +
Indiewire: KUNG FU ELLIOT tackles the illusion of truth MORE +
Criterion Cast on KUNG FU ELLIOT: One of the more intriguing looks at human nature in quite some time. MORE +
Film Pulse: KUNG FU ELLIOT is incredibly entertaining and ultimately bizarre documentary about a man chasing a simple dream. MORE +
Twitch Film: KUNG FU ELLIOT is dynamic, deceptive, and powerful filmmaking MORE +
Pretty Clever Films: KUNG FU ELLIOT is an interesting look at the collision between dreams and reality. MORE +
Huffington Post: VIRTUAL JFK succeeds on the two most important levels: its argument is persuasive, and it works as documentary art. MORE +
Killer Film: VIRTUAL JFK explores the four big crisis JFK endured during his short three years as President. MORE +
MovieFone: If JFK Had Lived: Koji Masutani's VIRTUAL JFK MORE +
Cinema Directives: VIRTUAL JFK is a thoroughly researched work that is among the very finest political documentaries I have ever seen. MORE +
The Star: VIRTUAL JFK tackles one of the thorniest what-ifs of modern history. MORE +
Civil Eats: VANISHING OF THE BEES brings awareness to the ongoing struggle faced by the bees and their keepers. MORE +
Empire on VANISHING OF THE BEES: A fascinating subject expertly covered. MORE +
Aisle Seat: VANISHING OF THE BEES is an important and educational film, one with a vital message. MORE +
Spirituality & Practice: VANISHING OF THE BEES seeks to find out what is happening to these insects who play such a crucial role in sustaining our ecosystem. MORE +
Hollywood Reporter: Viewers will appreciate UPRISING's reliance on first-hand accounts and its you-are-there grasp of chronology. MORE +
NY Times: UPRISING is a concise commemoration of a new society’s birth pains. MORE +
NY Daily News: This important, moving event was, as we know, documented in real time, but in UPRISING gets put into a crucial context. MORE +
Film Journal on UPRISING: Powerful, ground-level documentary on the Egyptian revolution. MORE +
Shared Darkness: UPRISING is the authoritative behind-the-scenes snapshot of a watershed event in human history MORE +
LA Times: UPRISING is a vital and valuable tribute to these courageous men and women MORE +
NY Post: UPRISING is a stirring piece of work MORE +
Indiewire: TO BE HEARD is so damned genuine; a great example of good documentary film-making. MORE +
NY Times Critic's Pick: TO BE HEARD contains and invites passionate debate. MORE +
LA Times: The riveting vérité documentary TO BE HEARD tracks three young friends in a Bronx high school whose lives are altered through a poetry workshop MORE +
NY Daily News: TO BE HEARD is multifaceted, sometimes sad but ultimately inspiring. MORE +
Village Voice: Life in the Bronx, Through the Eyes and Words of Teen Poets, in TO BE HEARD MORE +
CS Monitor: TO BE HEARD profiles three teens from the Bronx who attend a radical poetry workshop to help them shape their own futures. MORE +
Film Forward: TO BE HEARD a balanced perspective about the impact of the arts on teenagers’ lives. MORE +
TED: THIS IS NOLLYWOOD is an amazing story. MORE +
Urban Nexus: THE GREENING OF SOUTHIE touches on some fundamental aspects of the human condition. MORE +
Dwell: THE GREENING OF SOUTHIE is a documentary that follows the blue collar laborers who are becoming our green collar workforce. MORE +
La Vida Locavore: THE GREENING OF SOUTHIE is a fun and informative film, well worth a watch. MORE +
Bostonist: THE GREENING OF SOUTHIE is a balanced but incisive look at a complex issue that affects us all. MORE +
NY Times: Ian Cheney's THE CITY DARK manages to give this engaging work a sense of humor. MORE +
Variety: THE CITY DARK an informative, well-rounded look at light pollution MORE +
LA Times: THE CITY DARK poetic, at times profound, film sheds, well, light on how the constant increase of modern-day artificial illumination has brightened our urban night skies. MORE +
NY Daily News on THE CITY DARK: An illuminating documentary about what constant exposure to artificial light does to our bodies, our minds and the natural world. MORE +
Boston Globe on THE CITY DARK: An illuminating look at the subject of light pollution MORE +
News Blaze: THE CITY DARK is a simultaneously poetic and political challenge to the entire notion of human progress. MORE +
Film Journal: THE CITY DARK brings awareness to something most of us take for granted or don’t think about at all. MORE +
Spirituality & Practice: THE CITY DARK puts us back in touch with the deep yearning and mystical appreciation we have for night skies. MORE +
Torontoist: THE BASTARD SINGS THE SWEETEST SONG is still an honest, bruising film. It earns its redemptive title. MORE +
Anancy Mag: THE BASTARD SINGS THE SWEETEST SONG - A tender story of a son's love for his alcoholic mother MORE +
Toronto Film Scene: THE BASTARD SINGS THE SWEETEST SONG has a lot to say about life MORE +
Indiewire: THE BASTARD SINGS THE SWEETEST SONG A Subtle But Strikingly Moving Doc MORE +
London Free Press: THE BASTARD SINGS THE SWEETEST SONG a disturbing but beautiful documentary MORE +
Toronto Now: THE BASTARD SINGS THE SWEETEST SONG doc about violence takes flight MORE +
Globe and Mail: THE BASTARD SINGS THE SWEETEST SONG a family love story MORE +
Film Threat: ART STAR expertly architected melodrama allows the details of this complex story of Western perceptions of the third world to unfold at the right moments. Read more: MORE +
Pop Matters: ART STAR weaves into its storytelling the very tension that sustains the concept of stardom. MORE +
Washington Post: From Sudan to Sundance, ART STAR Questions Celebrity MORE +
Sierra Club: TAPPED is a condemnation of one of the most ubiquitous acts of consumption today. MORE +
LA Times: TAPPED's cautionary tale is well supported by interviews with a variety of activists, environmentalists, community leaders. MORE +
NYC Film Guru on TAPPED: This illuminating, well-researched and vital documentary tackles the many health and environmental issues related to the privatization of water. MORE +
Movie Metropolis on TAPPED: This documentary builds a compelling case, tracing the history of bottled water in this country. MORE +
NPR: TAPPED, an excellent documentary that details the multiple overlapping evils of the bottled water industry. MORE +
Haiti Innovation: STRANGE THINGS is an honest portrait, through the street kids' eyes, while describing their stories of survival. MORE +
Hollywood Reporter on SOMM: Engaging doc isn't just for wine nerds. MORE +
Variety on SOMM: Accessible subjects and sparkling execution MORE +
Seattle Times: SOMM depicts the competitive world of wine experts MORE +
NY Post: Raise a glass for wine documentary, SOMM MORE +
Seattle Weekly: SOMM - The Agony and the Ecstasy of Wine Tasting MORE +
Film Journal on SOMM: Four wine-obsessed guys prepare for the grueling Master Sommelier Exam in this highly entertaining doc. MORE +
SF Chronicle: SOMM an inside look at wine stewards MORE +
Austin Chronicle: SOMM is studded with tiny, often amusing observations and insights into the highly specialized profession/obsession of sommelier. MORE +
Killer Movie Reviews: SOMM captures the tension, the drama, resilience of the human spirit MORE +
Chicago Sun Times: Aspiring wine masters sip for success in SOMM MORE +
Film Threat: ROMANTICO works best as a beautifully executed and inspirational work of self-sacrifice. MORE +
LA Times: Pain, poetry and perseverance - Mark Becker's compassionate, well-observed documentary ROMANTICO. MORE +
Variety on ROMANTICO: A beautifully lensed — on actual film — docu about illegal Mexican immigrants. MORE +
Slant Mag: ROMANTICO may be the documentary of the year MORE +
Combustible Celluloid: ROMANTICO is my favorite documentary in well over a year MORE +
SF Gate: ROMANTICO achieves one of the higher callings of art MORE +
Slant Mag: PRESSURE COOKER is breathtakingly equal opportunity in its search for human poetry. MORE +
Village Voice: PRESSURE COOKER Explores Identity, High School Culinary Class MORE +
News Blaze: PRESSURE COOKER - Uplifting Documentary Chronicles Dedicated Teacher's Tireless Effort to Inspire Pupils MORE +
NYC Movie Guru on PRESSURE COOKER: An engaging, uplifting, well-edited and occasionally suspenseful documentary. MORE +
NY Post: PRESSURE COOKER has all the right ingredients. MORE +
Critic's Notebook: PRESSURE COOKER simmering students to perfection MORE +
Film Threat: PRESSURE COOKER sports a tale of triumph and social justice. MORE +
Philly Inquirer: PRESSURE COOKER is a heart-grabbing, awe-inspiring work that needs no embellishment. MORE +
Seattle Times: PRESSURE COOKER is an inspirational documentary that focuses on a unique teacher's tough-love approach MORE +
Washington Post: PRESSURE COOKER merits a place of honor at the table. MORE +
Boston Phoenix: By the end of PRESSURE COOKER, you won't need to slice onions to get the tear ducts working. MORE +
Boston Globe: PRESSURE COOKER dishes on food service MORE +
Chicago Reader: Watching the Audience with AMERICAN ARAB director, Usama Alshaibi MORE +
Van Music: PICTURE START documents how the local art scene emerging in the late 60s not only challenged the status quo but also contributed to existing modern contemporary art. MORE +
Washington Post: ONLY THE YOUNG is an elegant capture of the most elusive story of all: the awkward but nevertheless intense friendship between boys. MORE +
Variety: ONLY THE YOUNG stands out as the most human and affecting of recent skateboard docs MORE +
NY Times: ONLY THE YOUNG is filled with adolescent bodies groping, lurching and skateboarding toward burgeoning adulthood. MORE +
AV Club on ONLY THE YOUNG: A gentle, probing character study MORE +
Village Voice: ONLY THE YOUNG is a lush beauty of a documentary whose youth face the danger of un-coolness. MORE +
Pop Matters: ONLY THE YOUNG tells stories by smart cuts and montages, by lovely compositions and poppy soundtrack choices. MORE +