The documentary film 'Finding Yingying' begins on the cold open of her last message exchange with the manager. This was the last time that anyone ever heard from Yingying
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While 2020 has been rife with crappiness, Chicago-based Kartemquin Films is having a bit of a year (co-founder Gordon Quinn’s battle with COVID-19 early in the pandemic notwithstanding). In October, the documentary powerhouse released one of the best limited series of the year in
City So Real, a project by Steve James (
Hoop Dreams) that criss-crosses the city and its diverse citizenry in the year leading up to the 2019 mayoral election. It’s a compelling watch for Chicagoans, to be sure, and the nation as a whole (and is now streaming in its entirety on Hulu). Now, in partnership with MTV Documentaries, the studio releases
‘Assassins’
Many, many news cycles ago way back in 2017 a strange story surfaced from southeast Asia. At a Malaysian airport, two women killed the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by rubbing his eyes with a deadly chemical agent. When the authorities nabbed them, the assassins were shocked and insisted they’d just been hired to pull a prank.
Ryan White and Jessica Hargrave’s documentary “Assassins” tries to get to the bottom of what actually happened that day. The filmmakers scrutinize the video evidence, document the trial and interview people who know these two women as well as people who understand Korean history and politics.
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