Documentary

Hot Potato: The Story of the Wiggles

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  • Title: Hot Potato: The Story of the Wiggles
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Hot Potato: The Story of the Wiggles

Hot Potato: The Story of the Wiggles takes a look back at the 30 year run of the Australian children’s music group with interviews from original members Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt along with others who stepped in over the years to keep the brand going strong. Having released multiple Platinum albums, the group are combination of The Beatles and Mr. Rogers bringing music and entertainment to preschool audiences over video, television, concerts and even their own movie.

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They Shot the Piano Player

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  • Title: They Shot the Piano Player
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They Shot the Piano Player

They Shot the Piano Player weaves together a fictional framework, true events, and real interviews to explore the disappearance of Brazilian pianist Francisco Tenório Júnior, and its wider implications, as well as the rising popularity of bossa nova music coming out of Rio de Janeiro in the previous decade. Originally writing a more lighthearted book about the the music of the period, our protagonist is introduced the work of a promising musician and begins pulling on the loose thread of Tenório’s life.

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The Disappearance of Shere Hite

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  • Title: The Disappearance of Shere Hite
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The Disappearance of Shere Hite

The Disappearance of Shere Hite examines the life and work of Shere Hite whose books on masturbation and female sexuality caused an immediate stir and brought conversations about sexuality, gender, love, autonomy, and gender, which are still debated go this day, to the forefront of national discourse. A researcher, feminist, and author, the documentary covers both Hite’s work and the backlash they caused both to her personally and later to the feminist movement which eventually led to her to leave the United States, renounce her citizenship, and spend the remainder of her life in Europe.

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Turn Every Page

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  • Title: Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
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Directed by Lizzie Gottlieb, Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb examines the five decade professional relationship between journalist and author Robert Caro and his longtime editor, her father Robert Gottlieb. Filmed over the course of five years, Gottlieb’s film is her attempt to make sense on how the pair initially came together and worked for decades on a series of books not yet finished.

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