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According to the official release for this year’s festival, “We are beyond proud to be celebrating the international documentary community’s incredible work this year. These films reveal new insights into our interior lives and the world around us in complex, engaging, and often prescient ways.” Some of the most highly anticipated films are “American Symphony,” chronicling musician Jon Batiste and his partner’s fight against her returning cancer; “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Story,” about the legendary poet; Raoul Peck’s “Silver Dollar Road,” an exposé about the way real estate developers work in blatant and subtle ways to divest Black families from inherited property; “Stamped From The Beginning,” based the work of anti-racist activist and author Ibram X.
A production of PBS’s “The American Experience,” “The Riot Report” also makes its world premiere at this year’s festival. The doc explores the infamous 1968 Kerner Commission report, which explained that poverty and institutional racism were what led to the numerous riots of the inner cities in the ’60s. “White society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it,” the report famously stated.
Kim Longinotto and Franky Murray Brown’s “Dalton’s Dream” follows Jamaican singer Dalton James as he tries to make his way in the famously tough music industry. There is also “Unseen” , which tracks the experiences of Pedro, a legally blind undocumented immigrant who, despite this, is determined to get his degree in social work with the ultimate goal of using it to help his community.
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