A fresh New York comedy that premiered at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, The Travel Companion is a modern-day comedy of errors that dives into the insecurities within friendship and artistic craft. Travis Wood and Alex Mallis co-direct in their […]

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Premiering at last year’s DOC NYC, as well as numerous other festivals, Emily Packer’s documentary Holding Back the Tide gives a poetic look at the lives of oysters (a living creature) in New York City. While charting their presence in […]

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The ongoing War in Ukraine is captured up close and personal through the eyes of its artists who remain in David Gutnik’s documentary Rule of Two Walls, which premiered at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival where it won a Special […]

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Lynne Sachs’ latest film, Contractions, exists, like much of her work, at the intersection of experimental and documentary film practices. In the 12-minute work, superimposition, narration, and choreography are intermingled–all captured using a graceful and haunting camera language that lends […]

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A year in the life of a hospital chaplain is captured in Luke Lorentzen’s newest documentary, A Still Small Voice. The subject that is tackled head-on is grief, which is shown through the eyes of Margaret “Mati” Engel as she […]

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One of the most visually captivating films to come out of Sundance this year is Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s King Coal. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker’s third feature documentary premiered at the NEXT section where it garnered high praise for its poetic filmmaking, […]

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