For the 3rd Friday in a row, we present our favorite doc Tweets of the week. There’s plenty to discuss with an abundance of great docs opening in New York theaters including 20 FEET FROM STARDOM, CALL ME KUCHU, FAR OUT ISN’T FAR ENOUGH, MORE THAN HONEY and PANDORA’S PROMISE. Here are 15 notable feeds to follow…
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Last week, we inaugurated a new feature for STFdocs, playing on Twitter’s “follow Friday” hashtag #FF. Here are 10 new Tweets from the doc world in the past week that caught our eye.
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What went down in the documentary world this week? Here are 11 Tweets that caught our attention. We hope to make this a semi-regular feature on STF, so send your favorite doc Tweets to @thompowers
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Summer movies don’t have to suck. Mark your calendar for these upcoming releases and follow the film feeds on Twitter. (Dates refer to NY openings).
Opens May 31
Opens June 7
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LINSANITY, directed by Evan Jackson Leong, showing in Sundance's Doc Premieres section.
I asked filmmakers in Sundance’s Documentary Premieres Section to describe what attracted them to their subject and what conversations they hope their film will start. Below are responses from 5 of the 11 films. As I receive others, I’ll update this page. See previous posts on the US Documentary Competition and World Documentary Competition Thanks to Lauren Kraus for helping me compile this survey.
Lucy Walker, The Crash Reel, @lucyjwalker, @thecrashreel
I wanted to make The Crash Reel from the first moment that I met snowboarder Kevin Pearce. Kevin was training for the Olympics and vying with rival Shaun White when he sustained a severe Traumatic Brain Injury, which put him in a coma fighting for his life. No sooner did he learn to walk and talk again, he wanted to snowboard, and here’s where the story gets even more dramatic, because his brain wasn’t telling him how injured he was, and if he hits his head again he’ll die. We want to raise awareness about Traumatic Brain Injury through film and also our campaign #loveyourbrain, and to ask questions about safety and risk in Action Sports, and about head injuries in sports – but it’s a movie first and foremost, all told in compelling, thrilling verite scenes, with a lot of emotion and story and no lectures or experts in sight.
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