Film Category: NEW DOCS

Scratch the Surface
Tara Fitzpatrick

What does it mean to have a pretty face? Often, the world can be caught up with the “supermodel,” and this insightful film backtracks to…

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Goshogoaka
Sharon Lockhart

Goshogoaka is a structural film, one that will cause many to re-evaluate the definition of “documentary.” Consisting entirely of six ten-minute takes of a gymnasium…

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Who’s GonnaTake the Weight?
Alonzo Rico Speight

This fascinating youth documentary reflects on the struggle of Black South African and African-American youth in their quest for liberation and democratic rights. Shot on…

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The Personals
Keiko Ibi

Keiko Ibi’s film probes the drama and comedy in the lives of a group of senior citizens in an improvisational theater group directed by an…

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Best Man
Ira Wohl

Those of us who loved Ira Wohl’s Best Boy, especially Philly, the subject of that documentary Memoir, will be enthralled by the continuation of his…

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Dear Jesse
Tim Kirkman

What could Jesse Helms possibly have in common with Tim Kirkman: one, the conservative outspoken enemy of homosexuals and abortion rights advocates, the other a…

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Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen’s
Richard Pulicini, Shari Springer Berman

This film covers the last few weeks in the life and the closing of Chasen’s in Hollywood and the reactions of the restaurant’s staff and…

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The Brandon Teena Story
Greta Olafsdottir, Susan Muska

“Nebraska…the good life.” When 20-year-old Brandon arrived in rural Falls City, his handsome looks and boyish charm won him several friends in town and even…

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Bye Bye Babushka
Rebecca Feig

“Farewell Grandmother” reflects on an age gone by through interviews with female survivors of Russia’s revolutionary era. Some of those portrayed: a wise, uneducated collective…

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East Side Story
Dana Ranga, Andrew Horn

Who would have guessed that the Communist Party Line would be delivered in song and dance? Those who love the movie musicals that were the…

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