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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(The 2023 Sundance Film Festival took place January 19-29 in and around Park City, UT and virtually. As always, Hammer to Nail has you covered with tons of movie reviews like Bears Rebecca Fonté’s  review of the film Mutt. Seen it? Join the […]

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