By March, COVID-19 had been declared a pandemic and it effectively changed the world. But the virus didn't change WarnerMedia's launch date for their new video streaming service, HBO Max. The novel streamer will appear May 27, making it the latest player in the ever-growing subscription VOD landscape. For $14.99 a month HBO Max subscribers will have access to hit TV show franchises like Friends and South Park, and content from within the WarnerMedia portfolio including HBO and CNN. HBO Max programming will also include original series and movies as well as plenty of new nonfiction content
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Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! Writing for Sight and Sound, the ever-wise and witty Robert Greene offers some new insights into what a post-COVID world might look like for doc makers. This new age of hyper self-awareness is also the reason we documentary filmmakers may no longer be necessary. Video documentation and distribution is possible for anyone with a smartphone and an app. As a virus forces
One of the stranger stranger-than-fiction sagas to premiere at Sundance (where it picked up a Special Jury Award for Creative Storytelling) in January—yes, back when film festivals still happened in real life—Norwegian director Benjamin Ree's The Painter and the Thief follows the unconventional relationship as it unfolds between Barbora Kysilkova and Karl-Bertil Nordland, one a Czech naturalist painter, the other a petty criminal who steals two of the former's paintings from an Oslo gallery. Quickly arrested after the theft, Nordland refuses to give up his accomplices, or to even lift a finger
One of the most jarring aspects of the global pandemic is the rapidity with which every part of life as we know it has been upended, forcing us to nimbly pivot at the drop of a hat. And the film world, of course, has not been spared the disease’s speedy domino effect, nor its subsequent demands. This seemed to be the consensus among the array of international panelists streamed in live from lockdown in their various home countries to participate in a DOCU/CLASS titled "International market after the quarantine: how to distribute documentary films tomorrow?" at this year’' 17th Docudays UA
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering Monday at 9:00 on MTV, the Academy Award-nominated short St. Louis Superman, from Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan, profiles Representative Bruce Franks Jr., a Ferguson, MO activist and battle rapper who was elected to the overwhelmingly white and Republican Missouri House of Representatives. Forced to deal with the trauma he's been carrying for nearly 30 years after witnessing the shooting death of his nine-year-old brother, the film chronicles his work toward
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! The New York Times’ Brandon Yu interviews actor Daniel Dae Kim, one of the narrators of the PBS series Asian Americans, about how the program resonates during the pandemic. We don't want to be speaking just to ourselves. What's really important is to have this history brought out to the general population so that people who have no idea of what our contributions might
We write today to express deep concern that during this pandemic, millions of freelance and self-employed workers are experiencing unprecedented income loss and have been unable to access the government assistance that they desperately need.
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on Independent Lens, Rewind takes a brave and wrenching look at filmmaker Sasha Joseph Neulinger's childhood through home video footage that reveals not only family gatherings and the rituals of growing up, but also a long-kept secret: an unflinching story of abuse, cycled through generations, that triggered a media firestorm, a high-stakes court battle and a family reckoning. Neulinger revisits the footage 20 years later to examine what it means to heal and how
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! Writing for IndieWire, producer/consultant Brian Newman considers the prospects of premiering a film online. But if you are trying to premiere a feature film, and you don't yet have distribution, then as of now you can't consider these online festivals because buyers consider them a conflict with their distribution of your film. They do NOT see it as word-of-mouth
Americans are planning their exit strategy from weeks of coronavirus hibernation, but there's still a compelling reason to stay home on the evenings of May 11 and 12: the new documentary series Asian Americans, a five-episode saga of the fastest-growing racial/ethnic group in American history. Asian Americans is a production of WETA Washington, DC and the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) for PBS, in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS), Flash Cuts and Tajima-Peña Productions. It's a vast subject, years in the making, at last realized by the finest Asian American