Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on WORLD Channel as part of America Reframed, Rodney Evans' Vision Portraits profiles three blind or visually impaired artists who have adjusted their life and art in response to their loss of sight. Evans himself confronts his vision loss due to a rare genetic disease and ponders how it will impact his work, his life and his independence. Love Me Like You Should: The Brave and Bold Sylvester, directed by Lauren Tabak and streaming on the World of Wonder site
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Time for Change: We Won’t Be Defeated, a multi-pronged event airing June 24 on ESPN, wiill examine black athletes’ experiences with injustice and the unifying role that sports continues to play in bridging the divide between law enforcement and people of color in America. The evening will center around the Time for Change discussions, and will be augmented by three documentaries: The 16th Man showcases the South African "Springbok" National Rugby Team and its impact on South
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Sam Feder's Disclosure, premiering June 19 on Netflix, takes an unprecedented look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Leading trans thinkers and creatives, including Laverne Cox, Lilly Wachowski, Yance Ford, Jen Richards, Mj Rodriguez, Jamie Clayton and Chaz Bono, share their reactions and resistance to some of Hollywood's most beloved moments. What emerges is a
As we continue to process and reflect and figure out the way forward, we offer, in this Screen Time, a collection of both documentary work and discussions that serve to contextualize and underscore what we’ve been experiencing. The second edition of Firelight Media's new Beyond Resilience series, happening June 12 at 7:00 pm, will address "Production During Crisis: Ethics, Care, and Imagination," exploring how docmakers fulfill their role in the midst of a pandemic and an uprising—taking into consideration new creative approaches and ethical considerations. Carrie Lozano, IDA's Enterprise Fund
Since the Memorial Day murder of George Floyd, Americans have risen up in protest against age-old scourges of police brutality and systemic racism—and cities around the world have taken notice and have staged their own protests in solidarity. We have witnessed arrests of journalists, we have witnessed attacks on protestors by the state—and we have witnessed communities coming together to call for justice and systemic change, all while our national leadership tries to divide us. This week's Screen Time brings you documentations of other civil rights movements in the US, from Ferguson to Los
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on PBS' Reel South, Mossville: When Great Trees Fall, from Alexander Glustrom, captures life in Mossville, Louisiana, one of the oldest African-American communities in the nation, which has been devastated by environmental racism at the hands of the petrochemical industry. Glustrom tracks the history of this tragedy and follows the efforts of the few survivors in Mossville to fight the power. COVID: Our Lockdown in Shanghai, premiering May 26 on Smithsonian
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering Monday at 9:00 on MTV, the Academy Award-nominated short St. Louis Superman, from Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan, profiles Representative Bruce Franks Jr., a Ferguson, MO activist and battle rapper who was elected to the overwhelmingly white and Republican Missouri House of Representatives. Forced to deal with the trauma he's been carrying for nearly 30 years after witnessing the shooting death of his nine-year-old brother, the film chronicles his work toward
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on Independent Lens, Rewind takes a brave and wrenching look at filmmaker Sasha Joseph Neulinger's childhood through home video footage that reveals not only family gatherings and the rituals of growing up, but also a long-kept secret: an unflinching story of abuse, cycled through generations, that triggered a media firestorm, a high-stakes court battle and a family reckoning. Neulinger revisits the footage 20 years later to examine what it means to heal and how
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering May 5 on HBO and streaming on HBO NOW and HBO GO, Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, by Laurent Bouzereaue, follows the celebrated actress' daughter, producer Natasha Gregson Wagner, as she explores her mother's illustrious filmography and the mother she knew, through personal interviews with, among others, husband Robert Wagner, who speaks on-camera about Wood's tragic death at age 43 in a drowning accident. This intimate documentary goes beyond the story of her
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering May 1 as part of Oscilloscope Laboratories' virtual cinema initiative, The Infiltrators, from Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera, tells the story of young immigrants who are detained by US Border Patrol and thrown into a detention center. These detainees, Marco and Viri, are on a mission to stop unjust deportations—by being detained. Their attempt at a prison break, however, doesn't go according to plan. This hybrid film—a blend of documentary footage of the real