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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Director Sav Rodgers just premiered his documentary-feature debut, Chasing Chasing Amy, at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival (where I reviewed it). In the film, Rodgers chronicles both his complicated love affair with Kevin Smith’s 1997 Chasing Amy—so important to him […]

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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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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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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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(An official selection for the Documentary Competition at Geena Davis’s Bentonville Film Festival Aug.10-16 and official selection at Austin’s AGLIFF 2020 (All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival) Aug. 6-16, the documentary was the proud winner of Audience Choice at […]

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Remarkable in its frank discussion of an important matter, Markie in Milwaukee is also extraordinary for its seemingly unfettered access to its protagonist, who appears all in for this intimate dissection of their process, even if they are not always sure what that process means.

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The story told here is as much about the age-old societal pressure to conform as it is about the life of one exceptional small-town-boy-made-good. As in the best of tales, out of great specificity emerge universal truths.

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Panti Bliss didn’t ask to become the poster woman for gay rights in Ireland. But when duty called, she answered with gusto.

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