The documentary selection will be another highlight of the Tribeca Film Festival programming. Here are four that we’re especially excited to see
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Gordon Parks first rose to prominence in the 1940s and 1950s with his moving photographs of everyday Black Americans during a time of social upheaval. He went on to become a leading Black filmmaker . Directed by Emmy winner John Maggio and executive produced by singer Alicia Keys, music producer Swizz Beatz, and journalist Jelani Cobb, this portrait proves the power that images have to affect real change and will be spotlighted as part of Tribeca’s Juneteenth programming.
Bing Liu made one of the most devastating explorations of modern masculinity in recent years with the 2018 Oscar-nominated documentary. For his new film, he and codirector Joshua Altman embedded with a Chicago community program that hopes to stem the city’s wave of gun violence by focusing on the young men most at risk of being victims and perpetrators. The film tracks three such youths as they wrestle with their pasts and look toward building a better future.
Four friends leave their homeland of Zimbabwe to find a better life in South Africa, eventually becoming top sommeliers. Fueled by relentless optimism, a passion for their craft, and a deep sense of national pride, they form Zimbabwe’s first national wine-tasting team and travel to France to compete in the Olympics of the wine world—composed of a series of blind taste challenges—and attempt to upend the privileged and deeply traditional world of enology.Photo: Fred Morales, Jr.
Ben Fong-Torres is the American-born son of Chinese immigrants who went on to become a legendary writer and rock journalist and’s first music editor in 1968. His work helped define the counterculture, characterized by cover stories on Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, and Jefferson Airplane.
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