Impressively ambitious in scope, Josh Fox’s humbly titled The Welcome Table finds the environmental activist-filmmaker-writer-musician on a globetrotting journey across six continents, spotlighting the stories of climate refugees. The Oscar-nominated multihyphenate (2010’s Gasland) then brings this multicultural bunch together around […]

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Having spent over a decade and a half mining cinematic nonfiction gems on the festival beat, only a handful of doc fests remain on my bucket list (Thessaloniki, I’m available). Which is why it was a bit of a thrill […]

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(Check out Lauren Wissot’s The Welcome Table movie review, it’s streaming now on HBO. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The latest creative endeavor in award-winning filmmaker Josh Fox’s (Gasland, How to Let Go of the World, The […]

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Modern Whore, which world-premiered at TIFF, is the latest sex-work-destigmatizing project in an unusual multiyear collaboration between director Nicole Bazuin and the hybrid doc’s co-writer and star Andrea Werhun (who also served as a consultant on EP Sean Baker’s Anora). […]

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This year’s edition of CPH:DOX (March 11–22) was as usual jam-packed with exciting discoveries. And unlike the Oscars, which aired the first weekend of the fest, many of the eventual doc award winners, competing in six categories, were well-deserving of […]

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Natchez, Mississippi has a wealth of history, and a history of wealth – perhaps the only two facts its residents can agree on. Throughout much of the 19th century Natchez was one of the richest areas in the US thanks […]

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(Check out Lauren Wissot’s Suburban Fury movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Robinson Devor’s Suburban Fury has been in the works for some time. In fact, the team sent out a press release all the way back […]

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(Check out Lauren Wissot’s Stray Bodies movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Though Elina Psykou’s Son of Sofia took top honors in the International Narrative section back at Tribeca 2017, the acclaimed Greek director’s first documentary, last […]

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“Hey, this isn’t Ken Burns” – Scott Cummings on Realm of Satan The feature-length directorial debut of veteran editor Scott Cummings, Realm of Satan (reviewed here by Chris Reed), is equal parts visually stunning and (no pun intended) wickedly funny. Not to […]

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Rex Miller’s Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos, which premiered at last year’s DOC NYC, centers on the titular frontman of the NYC hardcore band Cro-Mags, who began his punk rock career at the unlikely (very unhealthy) age of 11, beating […]

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