Directors Heather Courtney (The Unafraid), Princess A. Hairston, and Chelsea Hernandez (Building the American Dream) teamed up on the new documentary about the founding and growth of the website The 19th*, entitled Breaking the News, which just premiered at the […]

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(The 2023 Tribeca Film Festival runs June 7-18 and HtN has a ton of coverage coming like Chris Reed’s Breaking the News movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) While it would be easy to claim […]

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Founded in 2002 in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks on downtown Manhattan, the Tribeca Film Festival spent its first few two decades running at the end of April. In 2021, the festival moved to June as a response […]

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I met with director Chelsea Hernandez on Sunday, March 10, at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival, with my Fog of Truth podcast colleague Bart Weiss joining me for the conversation. We discussed her documentary Building the American Dream (which I […]

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Building the American Dream packs a lot of information into its brisk 72 minutes, but never feels overly dense, because it focuses on the individual, heartrending stories of all involved.

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