NYC PREMIERE As many remember, 1999 presented a strange existential crisis in which we didn’t know what the next year and the new millennium would bring. Well-traveled on the festival circuit, this archival time capsule captures the unprecedented frenzy of Y2K just as the internet begins to transform the world. – Bedatri Choudhury The first […]
NEW YORK PREMIERE On Alaska’s remote St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, shy teenager Agra Chris Apassingok is the best hunter in his village, but warming seas have made the annual whale hunt, which supplies food and resources for his village for most of the year, that much tougher. When he proudly shares a […]
WORLD PREMIERE Bunny Yeager was a trailblazing model, designer, and photographer who popularized the bikini, invented the selfie, discovered Bettie Page, and introduced feminist agency in sexy pictures in the ’50s. With the testimonies of cultural icons that include photographer Bruce Weber, Dita Von Teese, and Larry King, the film reinstates Bunny as an iconic artist […]
NEW YORK PREMIERE A 50-something queer man who always had issues with his looks, David becomes obsessed with the idea of changing his eye color. When he finds a company that can perform this surgery, he believes has finally found solace. Vacillating between destructive vanity and admirable resilience, David is a fascinating subject in a […]
NEW YORK PREMIERE When a 1990 brain injury left 26-year-old Florida resident Terri Schiavo in a persistent vegetative state for over a decade, her husband and family disagreed about her fate, creating a painful rift. As Schiavo ultimately became the center of a pivotal “right to die” debate that captured the world’s attention, the filmmakers […]
NEW YORK PREMIERE The ubiquitous cultural cachet of Star Wars is under attack, not by an intergalactic warlord, but from 1978’s absurdly campy “Star Wars Holiday Special.” The program aired a single time on CBS, never to be shown again, and is considered one of the worst pieces of Star Wars media ever made. Despite […]