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Every frame of Honeyland pulses with the cycles of life and glows with the film’s subject, Hatidze’s, magical vitality and optimism. This visually sumptuous, vérité glimpse into a forgotten world is an ode to two endangered and priceless treasures: human decency and the delicate balance of nature.
With honey in tow, directors Tamara Kotevska (center) and Ljubomir Stefanov (2nd from left) and the Honeyland team premiered their documentary during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The film took home multiple World Cinema Documentary awards including the Grand Jury Prize and two Special Jury Awards for cinematography and impact for change.
Honeyland opens in select cities on Friday, July 26.
1: Film still courtesy of Honeyland; 2: © 2019 Illya Savenok/WireImage.com
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Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the iconic sex therapist and subject of the recent documentary Ask Dr. Ruth, turns 91 years old today. The documentary premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and in it Dr. Ruth tells her incredible story with a candidness and charm unsurprising to anyone familiar with her famous radio show Sexually Speaking. The film also delves into her personal trauma of being orphaned by the Holocaust at 10 years old and how that led to a lifelong passion for helping others. Ask Dr. Ruth is currently available for streaming on Hulu.
© 2019 Sundance Institute | Photo by Stephen Speckman ; Film still courtesy of Ask Dr. Ruth
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Longtime alum Roger Ross Williams’ new documentary tells the rich history of the Apollo Theater in Harlem – The Apollo is available to stream for free in April on HBO.
“It’s 85 years of the history of black music and black entertainment in this country. We used music and art to lift ourselves out of oppression.”
-Roger Ross Williams
Williams received a 2011 Sundance Documentary Fund Grant for his first feature length documentary God Loves Uganda, attended the Documentary Edit and Story Lab with the film in 2012, and premiered it during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Life, Animated, Roger Ross Williams’ second feature documentary, premiered at the 2016 Festival and won the Directing Award: U.S. Documentary.
Most recently Roger Ross Williams attended the 2019 Sundance Film Festival with Traveling While Black, an installation and VR experience at New Frontier.
Stream The ApolloonHBO and check out the trailer below:
Photo of Roger Ross Williams during the Sundance Film Festival premiere of Life, Animated. © 2016 Sundance Institute | Photo by Jonathan Hickerson
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Let’s take a lesson from Mr. Rogers for World Kindness Day and remember that: “The greatest thing we can do is to help somebody know that they’re loved and capable of loving.”
WatchMorgan Neville’s 2018 Sundance Film Festival documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and get inspired to do something nice for someone today on World Kindness Day.
With his gentle voice and heartfelt words of wisdom, Fred Rogers served as a compassionate surrogate father for generations of American children who tuned in to public television. He believed in love as the essential ingredient in life and was able to assist kids through difficult situations armed merely with handmade puppets suggesting tolerance and acceptance. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Mr. Rogers made speaking directly and openly to children his life’s work, both on and off his long-running show. He was at the forefront of a movement devoted to meeting the specific needs of children and was considered a radical back then for saying, “I like you just the way you are.”
Animated sequences are peppered between archival footage of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and interviews with Fred Rogers’s family, friends, and colleagues. Examining Rogers’s legacy, Academy Award–winning director Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) offers a deliberate and beautiful tribute to an authentic human being and provides a much-needed salve for these often-fraught times.
FindWon’t You Be My Neighbor?on-demand.
Film still by Jim Judkis, courtesy of Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
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