documentary
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3 eye-opening films about being Trans In America
Filmmaker Shaleece Hass the writer/director of Real Boy one of the most compelling and poignant transgender documentaries last year, is stepping behind the camera again. She is producing a series of short films for the ACLU & Little By Little Films called Trans In America which will highlight transgender people across the country fighting for…
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Olympia Dukakis : self-styled ‘octogenarian mother-fucker’
Olympia Dukakis was a well respected Broadway actor long before the rest of the world caught up with her when she won an Oscar & Golden Globe for playing Cher’s mother in the movie Moonstruck in 1987. She is actually just 15 years older than her movie daughter who she very famously screamed at in…
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Love Gilda
This affectionate tribute of the late great comic genius Gilda Radnor from filmmaker Lisa D’Apolito has the remarkable benefit of a surfeit of archival footage and also access to Radnor’s very moving journey. There are times when D’Apolito overwhelms us with some rapid montages from the past, but she can get away with it most…
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306 Hollywood
Visual artist siblings Elan and Jonathan Bogarin describe their very personal documentary about their maternal grandmother as ‘magical-realist’. After she dies the pair persuade their mother to delay selling grandmother’s New Jersey house so they can conduct an ‘archaeological dig’ that will serve as an excavation into her life. Anette Ontel the matriarch of their…
