A handful of scenes from the visually breathtaking and poignant feature film ‘Lakota Nation vs. United States’ lure the viewer into the vast Midwestern expanse known as the Black Hills: horseback riders galloping in a circle in slow motion on top of a grassy plain, a berry pink, almost crimson, withering sun, and a 1953 Technicolor clip of a white couple expressing their longing for the geographic region.
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Director Rudy Valdez Talks ‘CARLOS’ Documentary At World Premiere At Tribeca Festival
Tribeca Festival closed out Sunday night with the World Premiere of “CARLOS,” the new immersive and intimate documentary on the life and legacy of the rock icon Carlos Santana. Filmmaker Rudy Valdez takes an intimate look at the life of Santana with never-before-seen footage narrated by the one and only Santana.
On The scene: Cyndi Lauper Celebrates Documeantary “Let The Canary Sing” at Party Hosted by Tribeca Festival Cinema Center
New York City was electrified with excitement as music icon Cyndi Lauper celebrated the premiere of her captivating documentary, “Let The Canary Sing,” at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday. The star-studded event took place at Serafina Upper West, one of the homes of the Tribeca Cinema Center, where lively celebrations happened all throughout the festival. Joined by her personal family, friends, industry filmmakers, cinephiles, and the supportive Sony Music family, Cyndi Lauper basked in the spotlight, toasting with attendees at the intimate bash and delivering a speech filled with her trademark pizazz.
The Documentary ‘Common Ground’ Premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival
On June 8, Common Ground premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The Village East by Angelika held the screening. The documentary discussed racism and climate injustice in the food industry. The film aligns with the Tribeca Film Festival’s mission.
The Fourth Wall Documentary Makes it’s debut at the Tribeca Film Festival
On Saturday, June 10th “The Fourth Wall” directed by Luke Meyer premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The ten-year in the making documentary is a character-driven piece following the story of the Sullivanians, who created a secret psychotherapy sex cult hidden in the heart of Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the 1970s and 80s.
Pain, sadness, loss and regret all encompass this absorbing tale of life and death in acclaimed documentarian Ondi Timoner’s newest piece of work entitled “Last Flight Home”, where she explores the sad and tear-jerking death of her late father and venture capitalist Eli Timoner.
New York, NY – The highly anticipated Tribeca Film Festival showcased the music documentary “Uncharted,” on June 10th, 2023. Directed by Beth Aala, “Uncharted” provided an intimate glimpse behind the scenes of the music business. This remarkable film shed light on the lack of access and opportunity granted to young black and brown women, as they strive to break through in the industry.
Richland has all the trappings of a picturesque American small town.
It has diners, high school football, town parades and a smattering of hometown heroes and their kids and their kids’ kids. All this rests on contaminated land, from improper nuclear waste storage from the power plant that has driven the economy for the past half century. As it happens, the plant supplied plutonium for the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima at the end of the Second World War.
Director Irene Lusztig’s documentary “Richland” takes a look at the legacy of the nuclear history in the eponymous town.
Pierce under the facade of many towns in America and you’ll find a radioactive underbelly. There are unsavory and complex histories to contend with, dominating industries with questionable practices and deep ideological rifts between its denizens. So this isn’t a film just about a nuclear town. It captures a disturbance felt all over the country. Its subject town’s focal point, uranium enrichment, happens to be a great metaphor: it brings energy, death, destruction, longevity, decay, prosperity, blight, advancement, regress. You can use that array of terms for plenty of institutions that backbone the history of many towns in this country.
Richland carries baggage that sounds familiar to many places. Beyond the scope of nuclear debate, there are salient moments to today’s public conversation writ large. For example, high schoolers and their parents debate the appropriateness of having a mushroom cloud mascot for their school team “The Bombers.”
The film captures so well the universal essence of small industry town life. And it gives breath to all its nuances and perspectives by letting its inhabitants speak for themselves. We’re not subjected to lectures from proselytizing pro or anti nuclear talking heads. Instead, we sit down at a diner table or a high school quad or living room and hear what people have to say about Richland, until we get an illuminating mosaic of thoughtful positions and the people behind them.
“Richland” premiered at Tribeca Film Festival June 11.