Winner of a Special Jury Award at last year’s SXSW, Xander Robin’s directorial debut, The Python Hunt, is a documentary that has to be seen to be believed. Set in Florida’s Everglades, it follows the locals who participate in the […]

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First They Came for My College is the latest documentary from director Patrick Bresnan (Naked Gardens) and it follows the takeover and transformation of the New College of Florida by the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, and his conservative cronies. Deeply […]

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(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival ran March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Stormbound movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) If you’ve seen movies like the 1996 Twister and/or its sequel, the 2024 Twisters, […]

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(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival ran March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Black Zombie movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In her feature debut, Black Zombie, director Maya Annik […]

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It is said that you cannot go home again. Literally, you can go home but which version of you goes? Not the one that disappeared. That version is long-gone. [These words are written from the dining room table of Jonathan […]

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Sara Dosa is an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker whose work centers on human relationships with the natural world. Her films, including Fire of Love (2022), The Seer & The Unseen (2019), and The Last Season (2015), have won numerous awards, including […]

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As we are getting closer to the 2026 SXSW Film and TV Festival, one documentary feature to be on the lookout for is Beyond the Duplex Planet. Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated director Beth Harrington’s portrait of periodical artist David Greenberger will […]

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“When I enter a museum, I’m not looking for what’s on the walls, I’m looking at what’s behind them,” says a participant in Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]. “I wonder if people know that they’ve paid $20 to enter a museum that’s holding […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s Crime & Parody movie review. The film world premiered at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival on Feb. 21st.  Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) We tell ourselves we live in a democracy, yet […]

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The Disciple is a documentary about the creation of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the Wu-Tang Clan album famously pressed as a single copy and sold at auction for $2 million in 2015—the most expensive piece of recorded music […]

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