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AFI Docs unveils full lineup for 2021 festival The full slate of films for this year’s AFI Docs festival will boast 77 films from 23 countries, and four world premieres.
The AFI says 52% of the films that will . May 26, 2021
The full slate of films for this year’s AFI Docs festival will boast 77 films from 23 countries, and four world premieres.
The AFI says 52% of the films that will be shown at the 19th edition of AFI Docs were directed by women, 40% are made by BIPOC directors and 18% by LGBTQ directors.
“We are living in the Golden Age of documentary film,” said Sarah Harris, AFI Festivals director of programming in a release on Wednesday (May 26).
Fruits of Labor Review: A Mexican American Family s Struggles in Central California Fruits of Labor Review: A Mexican American Family s Struggles in Central California
Emily Cohen Ibanez s documentary is an intriguing look at the heavily responsibilities borne by an undocumented immigrant s teen daughter.
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Running time: Running time: 77 MIN.
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Those who complain “immigrants are stealing our jobs” hardly seem likely applicants for the jobs held by protagonists in “Fruits of Labor” such as cleaning other people’s houses or working the graveyard shift in a food processing plant. Constant hard work doesn’t seem to bring the American Dream much closer for this Mexican American family on California’s central coast. Emily Cohen Ibanez’s debut feature provides a flavorful glimpse at lives seldom represented in popular media, though she also obfuscates that view somewhat with fussily artistic fil
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Stanley Nelson on Persistence, Mentorship, and Why BIPOC Filmmakers Are a Shot in the Arm to the Documentary Industry
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Having chronicled countless landmark moments in African-American history, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson (“The Black Panthers,” “The Murder of Emmett Till”) understands the stakes at a time when both the culture at large, as well as the documentary industry, are in the midst of a wholesale reckoning. “It’s clear that the voices of [BIPOC filmmakers] are what’s needed like a shot in the arm to the industry,” he said.