Debbie Lum’s documentary Try Harder! follows students at Lowell, a high-achieving SF high school with a predominantly Asian student body.
Documentary
Explore the innovative and artistic strategies documentarians use to narrativize nonfiction stories on screen.
Acasă, My Home raises tough questions and avoids trite answers
Radu Ciorniciuc’s documentary Acasă, My Home follows the Enache family, whose patriarch has decided to live outside conventional society.
Helicopter parenting reaches new extremes in Chasing Childhood
In Margaret Munzer Loeb and Eden Wurmfeld’s documentary Chasing Childhood, American parents navigate how much freedom to give their children.
Indie Memphis 2020: From Cane Fire to Smooth Talk
Indie Memphis Film Festival 2020 showcased genre films (I Blame Society, Freeland), documentaries (Cane Fire), and restorations (Smooth Talk).
Survival Skills, The Dilemma of Desire, and more at Raindance 2020
Discover four highlights from Raindance 2020, all of which are available to watch online for free in the UK.
Raindance Review: Young climate activists provide a rallying call in Now
Jim Rakete’s documentary Now is both a celebration of inspirational young climate activists and an informative rallying call for change.