Maite Alberdi Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/maite-alberdi/ What to Watch Wed, 07 Feb 2024 20:35:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Maite Alberdi Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/maite-alberdi/ 32 32 THE ETERNAL MEMORY https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-eternal-memory/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 01:27:27 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40170

(Check out Chris Reed’s The Eternal Memory movie review. It opens in NYC on Friday, August 11 before a nationwide roll-out. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) It is a reality of the human condition that each […]

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]]> 15 MOST ANTICIPATED FILMS AT DOC NYC ’23 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/doc-nyc-23/ Wed, 08 Nov 2023 18:53:03 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40764

DOC NYC, known as “America’s largest documentary festival,” is back for its 14th iteration, running November 8-26. The 2023 festival presents more than 105 feature-length documentaries… among over 200 short films and dozens of events, with filmmakers expected in person […]

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]]> A Conversation with Maite Alberdi (THE ETERNAL MEMORY) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/maite-alberdi/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:35:37 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40233

Chilean director Maite Alberdi (The Mole Agent) premiered her latest documentary, The Eternal Memory (which I just reviewed), at Sundance 2023, where it won the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary, and since then it has made its way […]

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]]> SUNDANCE 2023 AWARDS: ‘A Thousand and One,’ ‘The Eternal Memory,’ Win Grand Jury Prizes (Full List) https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/sundance-2023-winners/ Fri, 27 Jan 2023 19:47:57 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38749

The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled the Jury and Audience award winners for 2023. First-time filmmaker A.V. Rockwell’s drama A Thousand and One was announced as the U.S. Dramatic Competition Grandy Jury Prize Winner. The U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize […]

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]]> SUNDANCE 2023 LINEUP: New Films From Nicole Holofcener, Brandon Cronenberg, & More Premiering at Park City https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/sundance-2023-lineup/ Wed, 07 Dec 2022 18:32:22 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38520

The Sundance Institute has just announced the lineup for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, which is making its in-person return to Park City, Utah. The section for this year includes Competition titles (Narrative & Documentary), the Premiere section, and Midnight […]

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]]> THE MOLE AGENT https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/mole-agent/ Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:29:38 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33290

(Director Maite Alberdi’s octogenarian spy documentary The Mole Agent is available now on VOD. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Director Maite Alberdi (The Grown-Ups) creates […]

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]]> THE MOLE AGENT https://www.hammertonail.com/latest-reviews/the-mole-agent/ Sat, 01 Feb 2020 19:16:22 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=32237

It’s refreshing and reassuring to see a documentary where nobody is the villain. Alberdi’s humanist tale is covertly moving, and will leave your soul more stirred than grandma’s Borscht.

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]]> 2015 Seattle International Film Festival Wrap-Up https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/2015-seattle-international-film-festival-wrap-up/ Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:28:28 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24728 (Another SIFF has come and gone – this one during Seattle’s warmest, driest spring on record, which made queuing up outside much more pleasant than usual. I continued my inadvertent tradition of missing all the films that received Golden Space […]

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