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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One of the most exciting, daring new voices to come out of Sundance this year is director D. Smith. Her feature directorial debut, Kokomo City, is a black-and-white-shot documentary that dives into the lives of four black trans sex workers […]

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One of the documentaries that captured the hearts of Sundance viewers this year was Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker’s The Stroll. The HBO documentary explores the history of NYC’s Meatpacking District from the perspectives of the transgender sex workers who […]

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Are y’all ready to rock? Oscilloscope Laboratories has just released the trailer for Rita Baghdadi’s electrifying rock documentary, Sirens. The Sundance-selected doc tells the story of Lebanon’s first all-female heavy metal band, Slave of Sirens. Executive produced by Natasha Lyonne […]

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This illuminating exploration of gender follows five individuals in the Netherlands who identify as "genderqueer" and thereby defy the heretofore accepted male/female dichotomy.

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What emerges from the totality of the material assembled by Mosher and Palmieri is a beautiful celebration of love, which is supposed to be the main tenet of Christianity, after all.

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Let's hope we soon return to an America of hope and progress.

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