Exclusive: MTV Documentary Films’ impressive slate of short films will debut on the Paramount+ streaming platform on Tuesday, a lineup that includes The ABCs of Book Banning, the directorial debut of documentary legend Sheila Nevins.
Nevins executive produces all five of the films joining Paramount+. In addition to her own film, co-directed by Trish Adlesic and Nazenet Habtezghi, the slate boasts Alive in Bronze: Huey P. Newton, about the artistic collaboration between sculptor Dana King and Fredrika Newton, widow of the Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton. The film chronicles their creation of a bust honoring Newton, for a monument in Oakland, Calif. where the Black Panther Party emerged.
The five shorts join a pair of award-winning features from MTV Documentary Films that premiered in recent days on Paramount+: Maite Alberdi’s Sundance winner The Eternal Memory and Pay or Die, directed by Rachael Dyer and Scott Alexander Ruderman,...
Nevins executive produces all five of the films joining Paramount+. In addition to her own film, co-directed by Trish Adlesic and Nazenet Habtezghi, the slate boasts Alive in Bronze: Huey P. Newton, about the artistic collaboration between sculptor Dana King and Fredrika Newton, widow of the Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton. The film chronicles their creation of a bust honoring Newton, for a monument in Oakland, Calif. where the Black Panther Party emerged.
The five shorts join a pair of award-winning features from MTV Documentary Films that premiered in recent days on Paramount+: Maite Alberdi’s Sundance winner The Eternal Memory and Pay or Die, directed by Rachael Dyer and Scott Alexander Ruderman,...
- 11/16/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
MSNBC Films is set to release a documentary looking at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration’s role in a 2022 migrant flight to Martha’s Vineyard.
Martha’s Vineyard v. DeSantis, which is executive produced by Trevor Noah, is set to premiere next month on MSNBC and Peacock. The doc, produced and directed by the Oscar-nominated duo David Heilbroner and Kate Davis (The Newburgh Sting, Traffic Stop), takes a look at the incident in September 2022 when the DeSantis administration rounded up 49 Venezuelan asylum seekers in San Antonio, Texas, and flew them by private plane to Massachusetts. The migrants have said that they were promised shelter, work, food and money in the form of a card once they arrived, but that turned out not to be true.
The official description: “Told in a personal, real-time narrative, the documentary interweaves the stories of four young migrant cousins fighting for justice, led...
Martha’s Vineyard v. DeSantis, which is executive produced by Trevor Noah, is set to premiere next month on MSNBC and Peacock. The doc, produced and directed by the Oscar-nominated duo David Heilbroner and Kate Davis (The Newburgh Sting, Traffic Stop), takes a look at the incident in September 2022 when the DeSantis administration rounded up 49 Venezuelan asylum seekers in San Antonio, Texas, and flew them by private plane to Massachusetts. The migrants have said that they were promised shelter, work, food and money in the form of a card once they arrived, but that turned out not to be true.
The official description: “Told in a personal, real-time narrative, the documentary interweaves the stories of four young migrant cousins fighting for justice, led...
- 9/14/2023
- by Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Cinnamon” and “A Song From the Dark” were two of the big winners at the Best of the ABFF Awards presented Saturday during the American Black Film Festival.
Following its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival, “Cinnamon” continued its festival run at ABFF in Miami Beach, Fla., where it was awarded the prize for best narrative feature and best director for writer-director Bryian Keith Montgomery Jr.
The Tubi original film stars Hailey Kilgore, Damon Wayans, Pam Grier, David Iacono and Jeremie Harris. Kilgore plays Jodi, a struggling small-town gas station attendant with “killer pipes and big dreams,” who falls hopelessly in love with a hustler (Iacono) and falls foul of a local crime lord (Grier) and her murderous family. The noir thriller serves as the inaugural project filmed under Village Roadshow Pictures’ Black Noir Cinema banner, with Fox Entertainment Studios, co-founded by NBA all-star Kevin Garnett. Veteran producer Oz Scott oversees the content slate,...
Following its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival, “Cinnamon” continued its festival run at ABFF in Miami Beach, Fla., where it was awarded the prize for best narrative feature and best director for writer-director Bryian Keith Montgomery Jr.
The Tubi original film stars Hailey Kilgore, Damon Wayans, Pam Grier, David Iacono and Jeremie Harris. Kilgore plays Jodi, a struggling small-town gas station attendant with “killer pipes and big dreams,” who falls hopelessly in love with a hustler (Iacono) and falls foul of a local crime lord (Grier) and her murderous family. The noir thriller serves as the inaugural project filmed under Village Roadshow Pictures’ Black Noir Cinema banner, with Fox Entertainment Studios, co-founded by NBA all-star Kevin Garnett. Veteran producer Oz Scott oversees the content slate,...
- 6/17/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
First programme reveal includes screenwriter Danny Brocklehurst, Argonon CEO James Burstall, Spun Gold TV MD Daniela Neumann, and more.
The Media Production & Technology Show has revealed the first speakers on the seminar programme for its 2023 show.
Taking place on 10-11 May in the iconic Grand Hall at Olympia London, the show will host more than 300 speakers across six theatres, featuring keynote presentations, masterclasses, panel discussions and educational sessions.
This year there is a special focus on disruptive and interactive technologies, including AI and virtual production.
The Keynote Theatre presents a host of industry leaders who will share their successes and visions for the future.
The Media Production & Technology Show has revealed the first speakers on the seminar programme for its 2023 show.
Taking place on 10-11 May in the iconic Grand Hall at Olympia London, the show will host more than 300 speakers across six theatres, featuring keynote presentations, masterclasses, panel discussions and educational sessions.
This year there is a special focus on disruptive and interactive technologies, including AI and virtual production.
The Keynote Theatre presents a host of industry leaders who will share their successes and visions for the future.
- 3/29/2023
- by Max Miller Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
Not every scene in “A Raisin in the Sun” is about being black in 1950s Chicago. Not every scene in “The Boys in the Band” is about being gay in 1960s Manhattan. Every scene in “Southern Comfort” is about being transgender in the contemporary Deep South. The new musical, which opened Sunday at the Public Theater, is based on Kate Davis’ 2001 documentary about Robert Eads, a transgender man who was denied treatment for his ovarian cancer, and died. Just like “Raisin” and “Boys,” “Southern Comfort” is a groundbreaking work in the theater. Its relentless focus, however, might prevent it from.
- 3/14/2016
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
The Public Theater announced today that the transformative, heart-soaring musical Southern Comfort has been added to the 2015-16 downtown season. Directed by Thomas Caruso and based on the film by Kate Davis, Southern Comfort features book and lyrics by Dan Collins and music by Julianne Wick Davis and was conceived for the stage by Robert DuSold and Thomas Caruso. Southern Comfort begins previews on Tuesday, February 23 and will run through Sunday, March 27 in The Public's Anspacher Theater, with an official press opening on Monday, March 7.
- 11/5/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Reverend Rob Schenck, The Armor of Light director Abigail Disney with Us Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Maria Cuomo Cole, executive producer for Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground and The Invisible War, was the host for a luncheon and discussion of Fork Films’ The Armor of Light with director Abigail Disney, Reverend Rob Schenck and Lucy McBath at 21 Club in midtown New York on a beautiful late summer afternoon, elegantly organised by Peggy Siegal.
Documentary filmmaker Kate Davis was seated at my table. The last time we spoke was at the Museum of Modern Art in New York when she presented Jockey, her enlightening exposé on the thoroughbred horse racing world.
Lucy McBath with Abigail Disney: "I wanted the truth of what happened to Jordan and how tragic it was for us as a family." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Abigail Disney's faithful and ever more timely directorial debut,...
Maria Cuomo Cole, executive producer for Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground and The Invisible War, was the host for a luncheon and discussion of Fork Films’ The Armor of Light with director Abigail Disney, Reverend Rob Schenck and Lucy McBath at 21 Club in midtown New York on a beautiful late summer afternoon, elegantly organised by Peggy Siegal.
Documentary filmmaker Kate Davis was seated at my table. The last time we spoke was at the Museum of Modern Art in New York when she presented Jockey, her enlightening exposé on the thoroughbred horse racing world.
Lucy McBath with Abigail Disney: "I wanted the truth of what happened to Jordan and how tragic it was for us as a family." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Abigail Disney's faithful and ever more timely directorial debut,...
- 9/22/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Reverend Rob Schenck, The Armor of Light director Abigail Disney with Us Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Maria Cuomo Cole, executive producer for Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground and The Invisible War, was the host for a luncheon and discussion of Fork Films’ The Armor of Light with director Abigail Disney, Reverend Rob Schenck and Lucy McBath at 21 Club in midtown New York on a beautiful late summer afternoon, elegantly organised by Peggy Siegal.
Documentary filmmaker Kate Davis was seated at my table. The last time we spoke was at the Museum of Modern Art in New York when she presented Jockey, her enlightening exposé on the thoroughbred horse racing world.
Lucy McBath with Abigail Disney: "I wanted the truth of what happened to Jordan and how tragic it was for us as a family." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Abigail Disney's faithful and ever more timely directorial debut,...
Maria Cuomo Cole, executive producer for Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground and The Invisible War, was the host for a luncheon and discussion of Fork Films’ The Armor of Light with director Abigail Disney, Reverend Rob Schenck and Lucy McBath at 21 Club in midtown New York on a beautiful late summer afternoon, elegantly organised by Peggy Siegal.
Documentary filmmaker Kate Davis was seated at my table. The last time we spoke was at the Museum of Modern Art in New York when she presented Jockey, her enlightening exposé on the thoroughbred horse racing world.
Lucy McBath with Abigail Disney: "I wanted the truth of what happened to Jordan and how tragic it was for us as a family." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Abigail Disney's faithful and ever more timely directorial debut,...
- 9/22/2015
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In an era of mass surveillance, and increasingly broad rules of engagement given to law enforcement, you would think that the FBI wouldn't need to carefully manufacture cases against ordinary citizens to show that they're winning the so-called "war on terror." But that would be forgetting that in addition to maintaing the security of the nation, FBI officials are also concerned with their public image (hello Twitter), as well as their presentation in the mainstream press. In a 24 hour news cycle, you are only as effective as your last headline, and the documentary "The Newburgh Sting" paints a troubling portrait of an agency more concerned with their perception than with justice, all as part of a mission that broadly targets a religious group, rather than individuals whose fanaticism finds them both as outsiders at their mosques and society in general. Directed by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, the doc tells...
- 7/21/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Documentary The Newburgh Sting attempts to rehabilitate the reputation of four Newburgh, New York, terrorists who were convicted of trying to blow up Jewish synagogues and military planes (the latter via stinger missiles) in 2009. The film argues that these alleged conspirators were merely casualties of an unjust FBI sting. That operation, the film contends, involved a shady undercover agent who preyed upon, and entrapped, poor black men whose participation in the scheme was driven not by belief in a jihadist cause but by desperate financial concerns. Directors David Heilbroner and Kate Davis’ trump card is a wealth of covert FBI surveillance footage of the FBI’s agent recruiting his cohorts and then helping them plan their plot – material that c...
- 4/23/2014
- Village Voice
Kino Lorber has acquired Us rights to Mohammad Rasoulof’s Iranian drama about state censorship, Manuscripts Don’t Burn.
Rasoulof’s latest film marks a return to filmmaking after the Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced him in 2010 to six years in jail and a 20-year filmmaking ban.
The prison term was subsequently reduced to one year. After flying to Iran in September 2013 with the intent to return to Hamburg later that month, Rasoulof’s passport was confiscated by Iranian authorities. He remains unable to leave Iran.
Rasoulof filmed Manuscripts Don’t Burn without federal permission and in order to maintain the safety of the film’s crew, their names have been removed from the film’s final credits. The story centres on an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs that the authorities want to destroy.
The drama screened in Un Certain Regard in Cannes last year where it won the Fipresci Prize. It also screened...
Rasoulof’s latest film marks a return to filmmaking after the Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced him in 2010 to six years in jail and a 20-year filmmaking ban.
The prison term was subsequently reduced to one year. After flying to Iran in September 2013 with the intent to return to Hamburg later that month, Rasoulof’s passport was confiscated by Iranian authorities. He remains unable to leave Iran.
Rasoulof filmed Manuscripts Don’t Burn without federal permission and in order to maintain the safety of the film’s crew, their names have been removed from the film’s final credits. The story centres on an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs that the authorities want to destroy.
The drama screened in Un Certain Regard in Cannes last year where it won the Fipresci Prize. It also screened...
- 4/3/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Kino Lorber has acquired Us rights to Mohammad Rasoulof’s Iranian drama about state censorship, Manuscripts Don’t Burn.
Rasoulof’s latest film marks a return to filmmaking after the Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced him in 2010 to six years in jail and a 20-year filmmaking ban.
The prison term was subsequently reduced to one year. After flying to Iran in September 2013 with the intent to return to Hamburg later that month, Rasoulof’s passport was confiscated by Iranian authorities. He remains unable to leave Iran.
Rasoulof filmed Manuscripts Don’t Burn without federal permission and in order to maintain the safety of the film’s crew, their names have been removed from the film’s final credits. The story centres on an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs that the authorities want to destroy.
The drama screened in Un Certain Regard in Cannes last year where it won the Fipresci Prize. It also screened...
Rasoulof’s latest film marks a return to filmmaking after the Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced him in 2010 to six years in jail and a 20-year filmmaking ban.
The prison term was subsequently reduced to one year. After flying to Iran in September 2013 with the intent to return to Hamburg later that month, Rasoulof’s passport was confiscated by Iranian authorities. He remains unable to leave Iran.
Rasoulof filmed Manuscripts Don’t Burn without federal permission and in order to maintain the safety of the film’s crew, their names have been removed from the film’s final credits. The story centres on an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs that the authorities want to destroy.
The drama screened in Un Certain Regard in Cannes last year where it won the Fipresci Prize. It also screened...
- 4/3/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
HBO Documentary Films bought U.S. and overseas TV rights to the docu The Newburgh Sting, by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, who helmed Southern Comfort and The Cheshire Murders for the payweb. It debuts April 20 at Tribeca and will premiere on HBO in July. Pic reveals FBI involvement in the homegrown terror case of the “Newburgh Four.” Never before told publicly, the story offers startling insights into the state of surveillance in a post-9/11 world. Four street criminals with no history of violence or political ties, from an impoverished and largely African-American community, were drawn by a Pakistani FBI informant into a carefully orchestrated plot to bomb Jewish synagogues in a wealthy suburb of New York City and fire Stinger missiles at U.S. military supply planes. Their dramatic arrest, complete with armored cars, a Swat team and FBI aircraft, played out under the gaze of major television outlets,...
- 4/3/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline TV
HBO Documentary Films bought U.S. and overseas TV rights to the docu The Newburgh Sting, by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, who helmed Southern Comfort and The Cheshire Murders for the payweb. It debuts April 20 at Tribeca and will premiere on HBO in July. Pic reveals FBI involvement in the homegrown terror case of the “Newburgh Four.” Never before told publicly, the story offers startling insights into the state of surveillance in a post-9/11 world. Four street criminals with no history of violence or political ties, from an impoverished and largely African-American community, were drawn by a Pakistani FBI informant into a carefully orchestrated plot to bomb Jewish synagogues in a wealthy suburb of New York City and fire Stinger missiles at U.S. military supply planes. Their dramatic arrest, complete with armored cars, a Swat team and FBI aircraft, played out under the gaze of major television outlets,...
- 4/3/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Who says you have to go to a festival to get your film picked up? Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, who already have a relationship with HBO after working on "Southern Comfort" and "The Cheshire Murders," had their latest work acquired by the premium cable network Thursday. HBO nabbed U.S. and international television rights to "The Newburgh Sting" today before its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival later this month. "We are very excited to partner with HBO and shine a light on the Newburgh case," Davis and Heilbroner said. "Our goal is to have people understand what really happened to these so-called terrorists and discover how vital it is to look beyond news bites and the government's claims." "The Newburgh Sting" focuses on the state of surveillance in a post-9/11 world and features new footage from the FBI revolving around the homegrown terror case of the "Newburgh Four.
- 4/3/2014
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
HBO Documentary Films has picked up all Us and international television rights to "The Newburgh Sting" from directors Kate Davis and David Heilbroner. The film world premieres April 20 at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival before debuting on HBO in July. Comprised of heretofore-unseen FBI footage, "Newburgh Sting" looks closely at the Bureau's involvement in the 2009 terrorism plot of the "Newburgh Four," in which four Muslim men were arrested on suspicion of a plot to destroy Us military supply planes out of Newburgh, New York, and bomb two Jewish synagogues in the Bronx's wealthy Riverdale area. The doc features interviews with Washington insiders, and interviews with families connected to the Newburgh Four. Last year, HBO aired "Newburgh" director Kate Davis' mesmerizing crime doc "The Cheshire Murders."...
- 4/3/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
The 13th Tribeca Film Festival has announced its complete lineup for next month’s New York celebration, which runs April 16-27. Culled from more than 6,000 submissions, Tribeca 2014 includes 55 world premieres, 37 first-time filmmakers, and 22 female directors. Half the slate had been announced on Tuesday, with Spotlight, Midnight, and Storyscapes films unveiled today, as well as special screenings. “Spotlight and special screenings are an especially dynamic aspect of this year’s program, both in range of styles and stories,” said Genna Terranova, Tribeca’s director of programming. “Many films feature real-life personalities who’ve accomplished extraordinary feats, while in other films we...
- 3/6/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Tribeca Film Festival 2014 world premieres include Every Secret Thing, Miss Meadows and Zombeavers.
Spotlight features 31 films comprising 22 narratives and nine documentaries, of which 20 receive world premieres. The Midnight section will open with Preservation and includes the Efm buzz title Zombeavers.
Special Screenings include 6, a work-in-progress documentary by The Cove director Louie Psihoyos. The transmedia Storyscapes line-up returns for the second year. As previously announced, the festival will open on April 16 with the Nas documentary Time Is Illmatic and runs through April 27.
“Spotlight and Special screenings are an especially dynamic aspect of this year’s programme, both in range of styles and stories,” said director of programming Genna Terranova, “Many films feature real-life personalities who’ve accomplished extraordinary feats, while in other films we see personal relationships at pivotal moments of transition. We look forward to sharing these engaging stories with audiences.”
“Whether they made us laugh, squirm, or plain scared the heck out of us, each of the...
Spotlight features 31 films comprising 22 narratives and nine documentaries, of which 20 receive world premieres. The Midnight section will open with Preservation and includes the Efm buzz title Zombeavers.
Special Screenings include 6, a work-in-progress documentary by The Cove director Louie Psihoyos. The transmedia Storyscapes line-up returns for the second year. As previously announced, the festival will open on April 16 with the Nas documentary Time Is Illmatic and runs through April 27.
“Spotlight and Special screenings are an especially dynamic aspect of this year’s programme, both in range of styles and stories,” said director of programming Genna Terranova, “Many films feature real-life personalities who’ve accomplished extraordinary feats, while in other films we see personal relationships at pivotal moments of transition. We look forward to sharing these engaging stories with audiences.”
“Whether they made us laugh, squirm, or plain scared the heck out of us, each of the...
- 3/6/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Tribeca Film Festival 2014 world premieres include Every Secret Thing, Miss Meadows and Zombeavers.
Spotlight features 31 films comprising 22 narratives and nine documentaries, of which 20 receive world premieres. The Midnight section will open with Preservation and includes the Efm buzz title Zombeavers.
Special Screenings include 6, a work-in-progress documentary by The Cove director Louie Psihoyos. The transmedia Storyscapes line-up returns for the second year. As previously announced, the festival will open on April 16 with the Nas documentary Time Is Illmatic and runs through April 27.
“Spotlight and Special screenings are an especially dynamic aspect of this year’s programme, both in range of styles and stories,” said director of programming Genna Terranova, “Many films feature real-life personalities who’ve accomplished extraordinary feats, while in other films we see personal relationships at pivotal moments of transition. We look forward to sharing these engaging stories with audiences.”
“Whether they made us laugh, squirm, or plain scared the heck out of us, each of the...
Spotlight features 31 films comprising 22 narratives and nine documentaries, of which 20 receive world premieres. The Midnight section will open with Preservation and includes the Efm buzz title Zombeavers.
Special Screenings include 6, a work-in-progress documentary by The Cove director Louie Psihoyos. The transmedia Storyscapes line-up returns for the second year. As previously announced, the festival will open on April 16 with the Nas documentary Time Is Illmatic and runs through April 27.
“Spotlight and Special screenings are an especially dynamic aspect of this year’s programme, both in range of styles and stories,” said director of programming Genna Terranova, “Many films feature real-life personalities who’ve accomplished extraordinary feats, while in other films we see personal relationships at pivotal moments of transition. We look forward to sharing these engaging stories with audiences.”
“Whether they made us laugh, squirm, or plain scared the heck out of us, each of the...
- 3/6/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Title: The Cheshire Murders Directors: Kate Davis and David Heilbroner Power seeks to protect its interests, inherently — to validate its judgments and its actions, or even inaction. That’s perhaps the most salient, unnerving lesson of “The Cheshire Murders,” a confounding documentary that can’t quite figure out what stories it wants to tell. And the fact that said point lurks just outside of frame says everything one ultimately needs to know about this dark true crime offering, which drops the ball in illuminating with any discernment the tale of a horrible, recent triple-homicide. Directed by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, the movie centers around a July, 2007 home invasion in [ Read More ]
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- 7/24/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Sure, Sunday tends to be overcrowded with high-end TV, including "True Blood," "The Newsroom," "Copper," "Dexter," "Ray Donovan" and more, but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from the other six days of the week. "The Cheshire Murders": Broadcast Premiere Monday, July 22 at 9pm on HBO Kate Davis and David Heilbroner's ("Jockey") true-crime documentary premieres on HBO on the six-year anniversary of the murders of the title -- a brutal home invasion, arson, rape and triple homicide in small-town Connecticut. Looking at the details of the event and interviewing the people involved in the case as well as the friends and family of the victims and the perpetrators, the film explores how a community deals with tragedy and the complications arising from the prosecution's seeking of the death penalty. "Pov": "High Tech, Low Life" Monday, July 22 at...
- 7/22/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
See the trailer, as well as new photos and the poster for the documentary directed by Kate Davis which is part of HBO's Summer Series. The docu airs on Monday, July 22nd, 2013 (9:00-11:00 p.m. Et/Pt), exclusively on HBO. You can catch all the images as well as the trailer below the show's synopsis. In the early-morning hours of July 23, 2007, in Cheshire, Connecticut, ex-convicts Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky broke into the family home of Dr. William Petit, his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and their daughters, Michaela, 11, and Hayley, 17. Dr. Petit was beaten and tied to a pole in the basement. The three women were bound in their bedrooms while the men ransacked the house. The brutal ordeal continued throughout the morning, ending with rape, arson and a horrific triple homicide.
- 7/17/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
“The Cheshire Murders,” airing on HBO July 22, is, in part, a blow-by-blow account of the unspeakable 2007 Connecticut home invasion that left a mother and her two daughters dead, and made Dr. William Petit his state’s leading advocate for the death penalty (which was abolished there nonetheless).But as the film also indicates, no one needed to have died at all.Directed by Kate Davis (“Southern Comfort”) and David Heilbroner, the documentary offers a thorough review of the crimes, and the attendant controversy regarding the death penalty -- both defendants offered to plead guilty in exchange for life without parole; state prosecutors insisted on a $7-million death-penalty trial.The filmmakers also assembled a dream cast of interviewees: The husband and parents of the slain Jennifer Hawke Petit; the brothers and daughter of killer Steven Hayes; the family and even the ex-girlfriend of Josh Komisarevsky, who details, among other things, aspects...
- 7/1/2013
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Will the Academy be overwhelmed by new documentary rules? "In recent days the more than 160 members of the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have received a box of about 80 DVDs of nonfiction features they are expected to watch before submitting ballots next month, ranking their top 15 choices. This haul comes with a letter suggesting specific films to focus on. And it follows about 30 to 40 films that members were sent over the summer, with the Academy promising to deliver 10 or more later this month. 'In theory this new system seems very democratic — everybody gets everything,' said Kate Davis, an Academy member and documentarian whose films include 'Southern Comfort' and 'Stonewall Uprising' (directed with David Heilbroner). 'In practice I think it’s going to overwhelm many voters.'" New York Times Why would anyone want to be the host of the Oscars? "There’s still the question.
- 10/4/2012
- Gold Derby
Release Date: Oct. 18, 2011
Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $29.98
Studio: Entertainment One
Armin Mueller-Stahl is a German general in Attack on Leningrad.
Gabriel Byrne (TV’s In Treatment), Mira Sorvino (Mimic) and Armin Mueller-Stahl (Avalon) star in the movie Attack on Leningrad, an action-filled war drama based on the true story of World War II’s deadliest siege, which lasted three horrific years.
Written and directed by Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Buravsky, the film focuses on a young British journalist, Kate Davis (Sorvino), who is trapped within the devastated city of Leningrad during the infamous Nazi siege in the winter of 1941. While isolated within the famished city and separated from her lover, American journalist Philip Parker (Byrne), Kate befriends Nina Tsvetkova (Olga Sutulova, The Night is Bright), a member of the Leningrad militia, and two Russian children. Struggling to survive the brutality of the Nazi siege, together they fight for their lives amidst a landscape of death,...
Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $29.98
Studio: Entertainment One
Armin Mueller-Stahl is a German general in Attack on Leningrad.
Gabriel Byrne (TV’s In Treatment), Mira Sorvino (Mimic) and Armin Mueller-Stahl (Avalon) star in the movie Attack on Leningrad, an action-filled war drama based on the true story of World War II’s deadliest siege, which lasted three horrific years.
Written and directed by Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Buravsky, the film focuses on a young British journalist, Kate Davis (Sorvino), who is trapped within the devastated city of Leningrad during the infamous Nazi siege in the winter of 1941. While isolated within the famished city and separated from her lover, American journalist Philip Parker (Byrne), Kate befriends Nina Tsvetkova (Olga Sutulova, The Night is Bright), a member of the Leningrad militia, and two Russian children. Struggling to survive the brutality of the Nazi siege, together they fight for their lives amidst a landscape of death,...
- 9/15/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
If it's too cold to leave the house for your local theater, there's plenty of options if you stay inside online, on demand and on DVD. What follows is your guide to all the new releases coming your way between now and April.
Online and On Demand
My French Film Festival
Thanks to bids for Oscar consideration, the winter is traditionally one of the rare times foreign films get plenty of attention in the States, particularly at West Coast festivals such as Palm Springs and Santa Barbara. However, Francophiles in particular will be excited to know you won't have to go to California or New York -- or even Paris for that matter -- to be able to catch some of the most recent cinema from France since uniFrance is unveiling My French Film Festival, which is being billed as the "first exclusively online film festival celebrating French talent" that...
Online and On Demand
My French Film Festival
Thanks to bids for Oscar consideration, the winter is traditionally one of the rare times foreign films get plenty of attention in the States, particularly at West Coast festivals such as Palm Springs and Santa Barbara. However, Francophiles in particular will be excited to know you won't have to go to California or New York -- or even Paris for that matter -- to be able to catch some of the most recent cinema from France since uniFrance is unveiling My French Film Festival, which is being billed as the "first exclusively online film festival celebrating French talent" that...
- 1/11/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Even as a CNN political talk show host, the specter of scandal haunts Eliot Spitzer. Oscar winning Alex Gibney seized the moment to document the fallen governor who many believe might have been president. At the movie's premier last week, the filmmaker addressed a screening room at the Tribeca Grand Hotel packed with a who's who of documentary filmmakers, Barbara Kopple, Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles, Kate Davis, as well as writers Erica Jong and others mesmerized by the epic dimension of the Spitzer story. Mostly people wanted to know how Gibney got his interview subjects to talk, and were surprised to learn how very eager they were to do so, especially such enemies as Joe Bruno and Aig's Hank Greenberg. When Gibney unspooled this work-in-progress at the Tribeca Film Festival last spring, Client 9 was a working...
- 10/31/2010
- by Regina Weinreich
- Huffington Post
If you are a cook, there is a nail-biting sequence in the new movie, Jack Goes Boating, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman under his own direction, adapted from the stage play by Bob Glaudini that was such a hit at the Public Theater last year. In this astonishingly tender movie, wanting to impress Connie (Amy Ryan) Jack learns to prepare an elegant dinner. Timing the pork chops to their perfection, he puffs on a hookah with friends Clyde and Lucy (John Ortiz and Daphne Rubin-Vega), and well, let's just say, much violence is done to a smoke alarm. At the premiere on Thursday, Hoffman greeted friends at the Paris Theater, among them, Susan Sarandon, Julian Schnabel, Cindy Adams, Robert Klein, Patricia Clarkson, Ben Shenkman, John Patrick Shanley, Barbara Kopple, Kate Davis, Amir Bar-Lev, Tamara Jenkins, Mad Men's Cara Buono, Cynthia...
- 9/17/2010
- by Regina Weinreich
- Huffington Post
Before going on a brief hiatus (explained further in the show; we'll be back at the end of July, latest), we were lucky enough to get some time with Luca Guadagnino, director of the captivating drama, I am Love. The film comes out of Italy, and -- in its story of a well-to-do woman (Tilda Swinton) being reawakened to life's possibilities, to both tragic and positive ends -- manages at once to embrace the country's classic filmmakers while paving a new direction with Guadagnino's distinctly bold, visual style and dynamic editing. Driven by the complex, densely-layered music of composer John Adams, this is a lush, emotional experience, and one of my favorite films so far this year. Click on the player to hear the interview. This Episode is Brought to You bySTELLA Artois"Le CO2eux Soirée" More Mmp on HuffPost: Kate Davis & David Heilbroner...
- 6/25/2010
- by Dan Persons
- Huffington Post
Submitting to or running from oppressive cops was the norm for the gay community in New York City back in the 50’s and 60’s, but, like Stonewall Uprising’s new poster’s tagline says, “on June 28th, 1969, everything changed.” When a small group of officers raided the Stonewall Inn, not only did the patrons fight back, but a massive crowd formed in front of the establishment. The arrival of more cops only added fuel to the fire and the riot continued through the night, the following two nights and eventually gave rise to what is now known as the Gay Pride Parade. Is this news to you? Then checking out Kate Davis [...]...
- 6/24/2010
- by Perri Nemiroff
- ShockYa
And so now we catch up on a couple of very good films that opened last week, but because there's only so much podcasting I can do before my ears start to bleed, I had to wait a week to be covered. In the case of the film featured in this episode, Stonewall Uprising, the delay turns out not to be too bad: we're still in the midst of Pride Week, after all, so this documentary remains relevant. This is from Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, whom we met earlier this year with the release of their black metal documentary Waiting for Armageddon. There are fewer church burnings in Stonewall, but that doesn't mean the event depicted -- a 1969 NYC riot sparked when the police raided a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn and the patrons decided they'd had...
- 6/23/2010
- by Dan Persons
- Huffington Post
This Sunday, when millions of people, gay and straight, congregate on the streets and sidewalks of New York City for the NYC Pride March to watch gyrating Altoids guys and floats sponsored by multinational corporations glide by, few are likely to think about — or know about — the origins of the march. The annual march has transformed into a joyous and glitzy affair embraced by corporations, politicians and the public, but it originated from a three day rebellion against the NYPD in front of the Stonewall Inn in NYC’s Greenwich Village 41 years ago by a motley group of down-on-their-luck queer street kids with nothing, and therefore nothing to lose.
The new documentary Stonewall Uprising by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner focuses in on the Stonewall Rebellion of June 28, 1969, its aftermath, and the cultural context in which it occurred. The documentary includes first hand accounts of those who witnessed the riots,...
The new documentary Stonewall Uprising by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner focuses in on the Stonewall Rebellion of June 28, 1969, its aftermath, and the cultural context in which it occurred. The documentary includes first hand accounts of those who witnessed the riots,...
- 6/23/2010
- by Grace Chu
- The Backlot
While we grapple with such problems as whether or not the recently out but obviously gay Sean Hayes is believable as a heterosexual in love with Kristen Chenowith in the delightful Broadway revival of Promises Promises, it is good to remember this privileged debate is hard won. Going back to a time when same sex coupling was a crime, marriage unthinkable, a new documentary, Stonewall Uprising, directed by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, closely following David Carter's book, Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution, has now opened at Film Forum and tells the amazing story of this evolution in human rights. Tracing the untoward history of gay liberation in America, from what it was like in the 'sixties, a fairly recent past, when homosexuality was demonized, and thought to be a disease that might be cured with electric...
- 6/17/2010
- by Regina Weinreich
- Huffington Post
June 28 will mark the 41st anniversary of what has become known as the Stonewall Uprising. On that night, the NYPD raided the Stonewall Inn, a raunchy, mob-run gay bar on Christopher Street in the West Village that served stolen, watered-down booze. Much to the surprise of cops, the patrons refused to go quietly, leading to three days of street disturbances. Those events serve as the jumping-off point for "Stonewall Uprising," a documentary directed by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner. The film...
- 6/16/2010
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, New York's Film Forum has announced its summer 2010 slate, which includes Dover Kosashvili's "Anton Chekov's The Duel," Jessica Oreck's "Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo," Emmanuel Laurent's "Two In The Wave," Johan Grimonprez's "Double Take," Kate Davis & David Heilbroner's "Stonewall Uprising," Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio's "Alamar," Vikram Jayanti's "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector," Tamra Davis's "Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child," Marco Amenta's "The Sicilian Girl," and ...
- 3/11/2010
- Indiewire
For those who believe the Rapture is imminent, bad news is good news. Environmental catastrophe? War in the Middle East? Declining morals? All signs that Biblical prophecy is being fulfilled, and that we’re perhaps minutes away from The End Of Days and Jesus’ return. The documentary Waiting For Armageddon lets a handful of the devout explain their worldview in greater detail, yet filmmakers Kate Davis, Franco Sacchi, and David Heilbroner don’t go looking for the simple-minded or easily mockable. They talk to pastors, professors, and well-off, well-spoken families, and ask them what it means to live every day ...
- 1/7/2010
- avclub.com
America was founded, in part, by those who sought freedom from religious persecution. And, given the American basic right of freedom of speech, people are free to say whatever they want. Just a reminder. In their new documentary, Waiting for Armageddon (opening this week at Cinema Village), filmmakers Kate Davis, David Heilbroner, and Franco Sacchi take an eyes-wide-open look at the belief of Evangelical Christians in what they call 'The End of Days,' and how these prophesies shape their opinions of modern-day Israel and current U.S. foreign policy. Admirably, the filmmakers let their subjects speak for themselves, and speak they do. The film's subjects - myriad Evangelicals (including two jet-propulsion engineers in Connecticut), members of the Jewish community (here and in Israel) and thoughtful academics - all provide their perspectives on the complicated relationship between the Us and Israel. The Evangelicals support Israel's rights because they believe Israel...
- 1/6/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
First Run Features
Grade: B+
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter By Harvey Karten
Directed by: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner, Frank Sacchi
Written By: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner, Frank Sacchi
Cast: James Bagg, Laura Bagg, Tony Edwards, Devonna Edwards, Dr.H. Wayne House
Screened at: Critics. DVD, NYC, 12/25/09
Opens: January 8, 2010
These folks are meshuga, but film-makers Kate Davis, Frank Sacchi and David Heilbroner do not necessarily think so. Their documentary, "Waiting for Armageddon," avoids political stances, concentrating on a religious movement.s sociology (or is it anthropology)? As you listen to people from the fundamentalist wing of the Evangelical movement, people who are certainly not rubes given their Ph.Ds., their careers in engineering, you.ve got to wonder: what is the Earth coming to?
The people who speak their minds in this exceptionally well-made documentary, which is loaded with dramatic archival films of devastation (including a look at the mushroom cloud...
Grade: B+
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter By Harvey Karten
Directed by: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner, Frank Sacchi
Written By: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner, Frank Sacchi
Cast: James Bagg, Laura Bagg, Tony Edwards, Devonna Edwards, Dr.H. Wayne House
Screened at: Critics. DVD, NYC, 12/25/09
Opens: January 8, 2010
These folks are meshuga, but film-makers Kate Davis, Frank Sacchi and David Heilbroner do not necessarily think so. Their documentary, "Waiting for Armageddon," avoids political stances, concentrating on a religious movement.s sociology (or is it anthropology)? As you listen to people from the fundamentalist wing of the Evangelical movement, people who are certainly not rubes given their Ph.Ds., their careers in engineering, you.ve got to wonder: what is the Earth coming to?
The people who speak their minds in this exceptionally well-made documentary, which is loaded with dramatic archival films of devastation (including a look at the mushroom cloud...
- 12/25/2009
- Arizona Reporter
It's been just nine years since dooms-dayers expected the new millennium to bring the end of the world, yet the cry of "Armageddon" still rings out. Last month alone, Nasa had to allay fears of a 2012 end-of-the-world scenario. And why not? We all know humans are doomed. Either our sun will explode in a few billion years or God's wrath will consume the planet tomorrow. But few Americans have embraced the coming of the End Times as intensely as the Evangelicals profiled in Waiting for Armageddon, a documentary I co-directed with Kate Davis and Franco Sacchi, to be released theatrically in New York City, Providence and Boston in January. In the film, we join Christian Evangelicals on an explosive tour of the future as they see it, from anguish to the sublime perfection of a new world. There are some 50 million Evangelicals in...
- 12/14/2009
- by David Heilbroner
- Huffington Post
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