Premieres Tuesday, December 22 on PBS
PBS will present the broadcast premiere of Frederick Wiseman’s CITY HALL on Tuesday, December 22, 8:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m. The film will also stream simultaneously on PBS.org and the PBS Video App.
The 45
th film from Wiseman, “City Hall” immerses audiences in the municipality of his hometown of Boston to illustrate a government taking care of its diverse citizens. Through his filmmaking, audiences come to realize how city government touches upon almost every aspect of their lives, acknowledging how necessary services like sanitation, veterans affairs, elder support, parks, licensing bureaus, record keeping, as well as a myriad of other activities that support the citizenry, are often taken for granted.
NFL Cheerleader Documentary ‘A Woman’s Work’ Acquired by 1091 Pictures
Film following former Oakland Raiders and Buffalo Bills performers premiered at Tribeca in 2019Brian Welk | December 16, 2020 @ 3:00 PM
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1091 Pictures has acquired the digital worldwide rights to “A Woman’s Work: The NFL Cheerleader Problem,” a documentary that highlights the pay gaps and toxic workplaces faced by cheerleaders in the NFL.
The film directed and produced by Yu Gu and written and produced by Elizabeth Ai premiered at Tribeca in 2019, and 1091 will make “A Woman’s Work” available for purchase on January 26 and for rental on February 2, 2021.
“A Woman’s Work” follows two former NFL cheerleaders, one for the (then) Oakland Raiders and another for the Buffalo Bills, as they fight for fair compensation after they received less than minimum wage for their work. One of the cheerleaders, Lacy, is seen as she’s struggling under mounting debt after paying out of
1091 Pictures snaps up “A Woman’s Work”, “The House That Rob Built” Indie film distributor 1091 Pictures, formerly known as The Orchard, has acquired the digital worldwide rights to Yu Gu’s feature-length documentary A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem.
The 80-minute film, which . December 17, 2020
Indie film distributor 1091 Pictures, formerly known as The Orchard, has acquired the digital worldwide rights to Yu Gu’s feature-length documentary
A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem.
The 80-minute film, which enjoyed its world premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, follows the unfolding of a 2014 lawsuit in which two NFL cheerleaders one working with the Oakland Raiders organization and the other, a former Buffalo Bills cheerleader, fought for fair compensation.
ITVS describes Cecilia Aldarondo’s documentary
Landfall (Spanish, English; 91 minutes):
After the landfall of Hurricane María in 2017, Puerto Rico grapples with a devastated infrastructure and multi-billion dollar debt as outside investors descend not to bail out communities, but to cash in. Set against the backdrop of protests that toppled the US colony’s governor in 2019, Landfall shares kaleidoscopic glimpses of collective trauma and resistance. Everyday puertorriqueños subsistence farmers, teachers, activists, and more meet an incoming wave of cryptocurrency traders, luxury real estate developers, and the politicians leveraging the crisis to recruit their extractive business ventures. In the midst of it all daily life goes on. The next generation of Puerto Ricans find themselves at an inflection point between the dream of a socialist utopia and the reality of recolonization. The new Puerto Rico poses a question of global urgency: when the world falls apart, what does a