'The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz' opens June 26 in Los Angeles , and June 27 in New York and other major cities.
Docs about Politics
'Anita' opens in theaters March 21 through Samuel Goldwyn Films.
'Our Nixon' premieres in theaters August 30 through Cinedigm.
'Citizen Koch' opens June 27 in Los Angeles through Variance Films.
'The House I Live In' opens October 5 in New York City.
Over the next month, we at IDA will be introducing our community to the filmmakers whose work is represented in the DocuWeeks™ Theatrical Documentary
Petra Costa’s new documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics explores the “fatal marriage” between Christian nationalism and authoritarian politics
In this interview, Lee Anne Schmitt discusses how Evidence uses childhood objects and family memories to investigate the propagation of conservative
In Tatyana Tenenbaum's Everything You Have Is Yours, we see dancer Hadar Ahuvia as she develops her performance by the same name, the culmination of years spent celebrating her own Jewish identity while also challenging Israeli tradition. After its theatrical run in NY, Documentary spoke to Tenenbaum about adapting her work in dance documentation to documentary, dance film tropes, and political activism in a nonverbal art form.
With The Encampments, directors Kei Pritsker and Michael Workman forge a counter-narrative to the mainstream media. Embedded with the encampment at Columbia University, which became a particular focal point in this controversy, they let the students speak for themselves. The Encampments pulled in the largest single-theater opening ever for a documentary (it was also the second-highest opening PTA) before expanding to over 50 markets last weekend. Amid the film’s early theatrical success, we sat down with Pritsker over Zoom to discuss the making of the film, its context in current political events, and adjusting the distribution timetable.