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The Territory | Official Trailer | National Geographic Documentary Films
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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…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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Cha Cha Real Smooth, Normalises Diversity And Redefines The Male Gaze
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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…

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

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

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

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

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
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EarthX Film Festival: Fire Of Love, An Alchemic Eruption Of The Volcanic Couple
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EarthX Film Festival: Fire Of Love, An Alchemic Eruption Of The Volcanic Couple

Fire of Love is a documentary film, directed, written, and produced by Sara Dosa, that had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival — where it won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award in the U.S. Documentary category. It also also screened at South by Southwest and it is currently part of the EarthX…

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
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Pleasure, Dissertates On Women’s Rights Through Porn
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Pleasure, Dissertates On Women’s Rights Through Porn

Female empowering chronicles about the sex industry have been fertile ground in recent years for cinema and television. An example can be seen with the American drama television series The Deuce (2017-2019) or with the biopic about the star of Deep Throat, Lovelace (2013). Along these lines, Swedish director Ninja Thyberg returns to the themes…

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
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PHOENIX RISING DEBUTS MARCH 15 / Directed by Amy Berg : Trailer
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PHOENIX RISING DEBUTS MARCH 15 / Directed by Amy Berg : Trailer

HBO’s PHOENIX RISING, a two-part documentary produced and directed by Amy Berg (HBO’s “The Case against Adnan Syed”), follows actress and activist Evan Rachel Wood as she takes her experience as a survivor of domestic violence to pursue justice, heal generational wounds, and reclaim her story. Almost a decade after escaping a dangerous relationship, Wood…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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The Sundance Winning film, “Nanny” Examines the Mindset and Experience of Immigrant Worker with a Supernatural Twist
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The Sundance Winning film, “Nanny” Examines the Mindset and Experience of Immigrant Worker with a Supernatural Twist

Sierra Leonean-American director Nikyatu Jusu has made “Nanny” — a remarkable feature debut which grapples with cultural alienation and familial disconnection through the life of Aisha (Anna Diop), a Senegalese immigrant who has moved to New York City with the intent of bringing her own son to the States from Senegal. The pressure is on…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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Sundance Film Festival Review: Festival Favorite ‘Navalny’ is a Gripping Documentary Thriller
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Sundance Film Festival Review: Festival Favorite ‘Navalny’ is a Gripping Documentary Thriller

Mounting a campaign against a powerful regime in any environment can be a challenge. But when the reason for action is because of widespread corruption, it’s a battle that may be impossible to win since the other side will be willing to take any and all necessary action, regardless of its legality. The current state…

Abe Friedtanzer
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