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“Last Flight Home” : Exclusive Interview with Director Ondi Timoner 

Synopsis : Behind a white picket fence, on an unremarkable suburban street, we discover Eli Timoner, who founded Air Florida, the fastest growing airline in the world in the 1970’s. During his final days, we discover his extraordinary life filled with incredible success and devastating setbacks, and most importantly, an innate goodness which won him…

“Last Flight Home” : Trailer / Director Ondi Timoner Tackles the Final Days of Her Father Eli Timoner Who Founded Air Florida

MTV Documentary Films has unveiled a new trailer of “Last Flight Home,” Ondi Timoner’s intimate film about her family’s deeply moving journey to find closure. The trailer finds Eli Timoner in his final days and discover an extraordinary life, one filled with wild achievements, tragic loss and, above all, enduring love. His daughter Ondi shares an…

Exclusive Interview With Director Alex Pritz About His Sundance Winning Film The Territory

Alex Pritz is a filmmaker based in New York, whose cinematic sensitivity allows him to weld humanism and ecology in a remarkable way. He worked as a cinematographer on the feature documentary The First Wave, directed by Matt Heineman, as well as on films such as Jon Kasbe’s When Lambs Become Lions, and My Dear…

Exclusive Video Interview: Actor Wes Studi, Actress Dale Dickey, and Writer/Director Max Walker-Silverman on Making ‘A Love Song’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Max Walker-Silverman’s debut feature A Love Song premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this past January as a NEXT selection. Dale Dickey and West Studi anchor this poignant, quiet romance about two people navigating the possibility of a second chance at love. online pharmacy…

Exclusive Video Interview: Director Sophie Hyde and Writer Katy Brand on Making ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival and is screening in the Spotlight Narrative section of the Tribeca Festival ahead of its streaming debut on Hulu. This warm and entertaining comedy follows Nancy (Emma Thompson) as…

The Territory | Official Trailer | National Geographic Documentary Films

Sundance Award-Winning Documentary About Amazonian Indigenous Environmental Activism From First-Time Feature Filmmaker Alex Pritz and Award-Winning Producers Sigrid Dyekjær and Darren Aronofsky **WINNER – Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft and World Cinema Documentary Audience Award – Sundance FF 2022** **WINNER – Best Documentary – Seattle Int’l FF 2022** **WINNER – John Schlesinger Documentary Award – Provincetown Int’l…

Cha Cha Real Smooth, Normalises Diversity And Redefines The Male Gaze

Cinematic polymath Cooper Raiff (director, writer, actor, producer), is currently part of Variety’s List Of New Directors To Watch In 2022. After his breakout film S#!%house — that was the recipient of the 2020 SXSW Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Film — he returns with another compassionate cross-section of contemporary society. Raiff’s…

Film Review – ‘The Janes’ Highlights the Inspiring and Important Work of Underground Abortionists

This is an urgent moment in American history for action on abortion rights. The landmark Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court in 1973 making abortion legal in the United States is set to be overturned, and activists for reproductive justice have already begun to mobilize to ensure that doesn’t happen. It’s a particularly…

Exclusive Interview: Donald Elise Watkins, RJ Cyler, and Sebastian Chacon on the Genre-Bending ‘Emergency’

In the film Emergency, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January, three friends, Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins), Sean (RJ Cyler), and Carlos (Sebastian Chacon), set out to complete a legendary tour of their college party scene. Their night is thrown into chaos when they find a white girl passed out on…

Human Rights Watch Film Festival Film Review – Sundance Winning Film ‘Midwives’ Shines an Important Spotlight on Reproductive Justice

The debate around reproductive rights in the United States has intensified considerably in recent weeks as those who believe access to abortion should be available for those who need it have protested against the impending overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade legislation. While that remains central within the United States, other countries have remarkably…

EarthX Film Festival: The Territory, Is A Battle Call For The Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

Alex Pritz’s feature film debut The Territory — that premiered in the World Cinema competition at Sundance 2022, where it won both the Audience Award and a Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft — is currently part of the programme of the EarthX Film Festival. The titular land is the one belonging to the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau,…