Documentary
Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber, will release Eva Vitija’s Loving Highsmith, an intimate documentary portrait of the novelist Patricia Highsmith that casts new light on her life and oeuvre. Zeitgeist Films will release the film theatrically this September.
We Feed People, the critically acclaimed documentary from Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard featuring world-renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés, will become available on Hulu starting June 16 as well as through a special screening on National Geographic Channel on Friday, June 17, at 9 p.m. EDT, in addition to continued streaming on Disney+.
Here is the first look teaser clip / trailer for The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, the new documentary on the 18-month long relationship between May Pang and John Lennon.
Showtime debuted the official trailer for Supreme Team, a three-part documentary series directed by Grammy winner, rapper Nasir “Nas” Jones and Peter J Scalettar that will premiere at the Tribeca Festival, ahead of the on-air network premiere on Sunday, July 10 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
Greenwich Entertainment will release the documentary The Youth Governor the feature directorial debut of Matthew and Jaron Halmy. The documentary played at the Cleveland International Film Festival, the Milwaukee Film Festival, and the Phoenix Film Festival and will be released on August 26.
The 35th anniversary season of POV documentary series on PBS opens with the observational film Wuhan Wuhan, about the first wave of COVID-19, in the city where the mysterious virus was first discovered.
Presented by Alec Baldwin, the HamptonsFilm SummerDocs series returns for its fourteenth year, with the series kicking off with Fire of Love, directed by Sara Dosa, on Saturday, June 25. Navalny, directed by Daniel Roher, screens on July 23 and the series concludes with Nothing Lasts Forever, directed by Jason Kohn, on August 12.
Directed by multi-award-winning filmmakers Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhir, the civil rights documentary Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power has its World Premiere at Tribeca Festival.
The documentary Sophia from directors Jon Kasbe (When Lambs Become Lions, The Deep End) and Crystal Moselle (The Wolfpack, Skate Kitchen) follows inventor David Hanson’s relentless quest to bring compassion and consciousness to Sophia, the most recognized humanoid robot in the world.
Mind Over Murder chronicles the bizarre and psychologically complex story of six individuals who were convicted for the 1985 murder of a beloved 68- year-old grandmother, Helen Wilson, in Beatrice, Nebraska. Despite five of the individuals originally confessing to the crime, the “Beatrice Six” as they became known, were exonerated by DNA evidence in 2009, a turn of events which divided the rural town and incensed the family of Helen Wilson. As the filmmakers track the case from the murder, through investigation, trial, exoneration and two civil suits, shifting perspectives cloud the truth; a stranger-than-fiction tale emerges that raises salient questions about the reliability of confessions and memory in criminal cases.
The documentary Summer of Soul (…Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson won the Arts award at the 82nd Peabody Awards. In the concert documentary film Summer of Soul, musician and debut director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson puts us in the front row of a seminal event that should be as legendary as Woodstock but had been relegated to the dusty and neglected storage bins of history: the Harlem Cultural Festival in the summer of 1969. The film weaves together interviews with attendees and cultural commentators for context with astonishing footage of festival performances from the likes of Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, and many more.
Briarcliff Entertainment released the official trailer for Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down, the documentary on former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and her fight to recover following an assassination attempt in 2011.