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Sundance 2022: Cooper Raiff’s “Cha Cha Real Smooth” picks up Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic category

As always, the Sundance Film Festival has a healthy sampling of Bay Area flavor, beginning with S.F. filmmaker Sara Dosas documentary Fire of Love.

The Sundance Institute has unveiled the members of the six juries for the competitions at its 2022 film festival. The festival will run from Jan. 20 to 30 through its enhanced ...

The now virtual film festival takes place Jan. 20-30

NEW YORK — Oakland filmmaker Peter Nicks already made two well-regarded documentaries capturing the flawed institutions of his city. There was 2012’s “The Waiting Room,” about a public hospital. “The Force,” in 2017, centered on the Oakland Police Department during a wave of shootings and protests. To complete his Oakland trilogy, Hicks turned to Oakland High. The public

High school has always been hard, but its challenges are now unprecedented. Peter Nicks’s new documentary, Homeroom, which began streaming on Hulu on August 12, follows a group of Oakland students as they move through their final chapter of high school. Their academic year began in 2019 before it was, of course, interrupted by the pandemic.

Ascension (pictured), Flee and Summer of Soul are just a few of the notable documentaries included in DOC NYC’s features short list for this year. The festival has unveiled the 15 features and 15 short ...

Films like these make a Hulu subscription worthwhile.

The 10 best movies and TV shows streaming for August 2021 on Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, and more.

NEW YORK — Oakland, Calif., filmmaker Peter Nicks had already made two well-regarded documentaries capturing the flawed institutions of his city and their role in shaping local lives: 2012’s “The Waiting Room,” about a public hospital, and 2017’s “The Force,” about the Oakland Police Department during a wave of shootings and protests.