"As long as nothing interrupts that serenity, then there's nothing more magical." Gravitas Ventures has debuted a trailer for a documentary titled Don't Look Down, profiling the early 1980's publicity stunt by Richard Branson in an attempt to bring attention to his newly launched Virgin Airlines. Branson decided to hop in a hot air balloon and fly across the Atlantic Ocean, something that has never been done before and is considered dangerous even by other experienced balloonists. "The real story of this incredible adventure has never been told, and using intimate interviews with Branson and the team, never seen before archive (including footage from inside the balloon, shot in real time)." It looks quite thrilling and fascinating. Enjoy. Here's the trailer (+ poster) for Daniel Gordon's documentary Don't Look Down, in high def from Apple: It's 1984, and Richard Branson, a maverick British music mogul has just made a big decision- to take on British Airways,...
- 9/26/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
This year’s New York Film Festival will open with a sobering reminder of the current state of race relations in the United States, as the 54th incarnation of the prestigious festival has eschewed a fancy, splashy, feel-good opener in exchange for debuting Ava DuVernay’s latest feature, a documentary entitled “The 13th.”
Named for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, “the film chronicles the history of racial inequality in the United States, examining how our country has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with the majority of prisoners being African-American.” The filmmaker has said that the film was made “as an answer to my own questions about how and why we have become the most incarcerated nation in the world, how and why we regard some of our citizens as innately criminal, and how and why good people allow this injustice to happen generation after generation.”
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Named for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, “the film chronicles the history of racial inequality in the United States, examining how our country has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with the majority of prisoners being African-American.” The filmmaker has said that the film was made “as an answer to my own questions about how and why we have become the most incarcerated nation in the world, how and why we regard some of our citizens as innately criminal, and how and why good people allow this injustice to happen generation after generation.”
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- 9/26/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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