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Full Frame’s Winter Road Show Brings Three Oscar®-Shortlisted Films to The Cary Theater

    A story participant in UNION shades their eyes with a sheaf in paper , in front of a large Amazon sign
    Image courtesy UNION

     

    DURHAM, N.C. — Three documentaries on the 2025 Oscars shortlist will be shown at the upcoming Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Winter Road Show series.

    The films – Daughters, Union, and Hollywoodgate – were screened at the 2024 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, a program of Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies. Full Frame is partnering with The Cary Theater in Cary, N.C. to host the winter series, with screenings January 23, January 30, and February 6. All screenings are free and open to the public, though attendees are asked to reserve a free ticket through The Cary Theater website.

    “With the return of Full Frame’s Winter Road Show this season, we can show three standout titles from the 2024 festival,” said Festival Co-Director and Artistic Director Sadie Tillery. “We are grateful for the partnership of The Cary Theater, whose support allows us to make these showings available to the public for free. We hope audiences will join us in revisiting these celebrated titles from the past year, which may remind attendees what they can look forward to this coming April at Full Frame 2025.”

    Daughters won the Sally Robinson Audience Award at Full Frame’s 2024 festival, while Hollywoodgate won the Grand Jury Award.

    “Year-round programs like the Winter Road Show allow us to stay connected with our community beyond the festival weekend,” says Emily Foster, Full Frame’s Festival Co-Director. “Offering these films ensures more people can experience powerful storytelling and meaningful conversations throughout the year.”

    Winter Road Show films and dates:

    January 23 at 7:30 p.m.
    DAUGHTERS/ U.S. (Directors: Angela Patton, Natalie Rae; Producers: Natalie Rae, Lisa Mazzotta, Justin Benoliel, James Cunningham, Mindy Goldberg, Sam Bisbee, Kathryn Everett, Laura Choi Raycroft)
    Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy-Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.

    January 30 at 7:30 p.m.
    UNION / U.S. (Directors: Brett Story, Stephen Maing; Producers: Brett Story, Stephen Maing, Samantha Curley, Mars Verrone, Martin Dicicco)
    The Amazon Labor Union (ALU)—a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island—takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize.

    February 6 at 7:30 p.m.
    HOLLYWOODGATE / Germany, U.S. (Director: Ibrahim Nash’at; Producers: Talal Derki, Odessa Rae, Shane Boris)
    When the United States withdrew from its 20-year “forever war” in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base loaded with weaponry—a portion of the over $7 billion in U.S. armaments still in the country. Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at’s Hollywoodgate spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache America left behind—and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.

    About Full Frame

    The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an internationally recognized event that proudly presents the best nonfiction films on the festival circuit each year. Based in Durham, North Carolina, the annual festival draws thousands of enthusiastic fans from around the globe to celebrate the documentary art form, engage in meaningful conversation, and experience the impact of exceptional nonfiction cinema firsthand. The 27th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival takes place April 3–6, 2025. Passes go on sale January 15, 2025.

    The festival is a program of Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies and receives support from corporate sponsors, private foundations, and individual donors whose generosity provides the foundation that makes the event possible. The 2025 festival is produced through a partnership with Duke Venue and Production Management. The Presenting Sponsor of the festival is Duke University.

    To learn more about the mission of Full Frame or how to support Full Frame, visit fullframefest.org.

     

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    January 8, 2025