(New Directors/New Films ran March 29-April 9 at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s movie review of Milisuthando. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “I have […]

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After a year of new groundbreaking documentaries, the Cinema Eye Honors has announced the full slate of nominations for its 16th Annual Awards Ceremony. Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love and Alex Pritz’s The Territory, both National Geographic films, lead with […]

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“I am going to war, and there will be casualties.” Afro-Latina filmmaker Rebeca “Beba” Huntt puts her life front and center in her very personal documentary, Beba. Neon picked up the film after its premiere at the Toronto International Film […]

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The Tribeca Film Festival just announced its lineup of narrative, documentary, & animated features/shorts for the 2022 edition. This year’s festival will run from June 8-19, and will open with the Jennifer Lopez Netflix documentary, Halftime. About 110 feature films […]

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As 2021 dawned, we found ourselves as a nation more consumed by the political drama unfolding around us than any narrative created by filmmakers. Truth was, for a while, far stranger than fiction. Eventually, however, we returned to something resembling […]

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