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New grantees with world premieres this month include Sundance 2024 films Union and The Battle for Laikipia and International Film Festival Rotterdam 2024 title...

The Ford Foundation's JustFilms has announced $4.2 million in grants to support social justice-themed documentaries.

“The situation now is quite different,” the critic Fred Camper wrote in 1986. Camper, in his much-debated essay of the same name, was marking w

Following The Film Stage's collective top 50 films of 2021, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. After

Maybe this pandemic has encouraged more people to watch documentaries at home. What’s certain is that not enough of them have made it to the big screen. Even the Grand Berry Theater and the Modern Art Museum, reliable places to watch docs, left too many of the films here to streaming services. This New Year, let’s

Helen Keller (1880-1968) was one of the most inspirational figures of the 20th century. But most people know the writer and activist for her determination...

As if they had been written yesterday, the revolutionary words of Helen Keller speak to the prevalent ills of crushing capitalism and the dehumanization it breeds. “Her Socialist Smile,” writer-director John Gianvito’s experimental biopic of one of the most influential women of the 20th century, revives them for modern examination. While Keller’s voice, hard-fought and from her own chest, bookends this filmic essay, the piece largely consists of text in white lettering over black: lo...

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NOW Magazine Hot Docs review: Her Socialist Smile John Gianvitos profile of deaf-blind author Helen Keller and her socialist politics feels urgent By Kevin Ritchie NNNN At a time when a pandemic is putting a spotlight on “the social determinants of health,” director John Gianvito’s profile of deaf-blind author Helen Keller couldn’t feel more urgent. Using on-screen text from Keller’s speeches and interviews, as well as voice-over narration by poet Carolyn Forché, this essayi...

– Globo de Ouro [Best Director – Motion Picture] – Critics’ Choice Awards [Best Director] – BAFTA [Best Director] – Atlanta Film Critics Society [Best Director] – Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts [Best Direction] – Black Film Critics Circle [Best Director] – empate – Boston Online Film Critics Association [Best Director] – Boston Society Of Film Critics [Best Director] – Chicago Film Critics Association [Best Director] – Columbus Film Critics Association ...