Sandra Bland went viral after dashboard camera footage showed state trooper Brian Encinia pulling her over for failing to signal while driving, and ultimately threatening to “light [her] up” and trying to pull her out of the car. But well before that 2015 incident, which ultimately led to her dying under mysterious circumstances in a jail cell, she was using social media to empower and educate. That is why filmmakers Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, who directed “Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland,” wanted to start their documentary about her with one of her own videos.
In a piece that Bland originally shared on her Instagram account, she opens “Say Her Name” by saying, “Today #SandySpeaks is going to talk about white people.” It is a moment, Heilbroner points out, that often gets a laugh from the audience because it’s “an immediate disarming, witty side” of the woman.
In a piece that Bland originally shared on her Instagram account, she opens “Say Her Name” by saying, “Today #SandySpeaks is going to talk about white people.” It is a moment, Heilbroner points out, that often gets a laugh from the audience because it’s “an immediate disarming, witty side” of the woman.
- 11/30/2018
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
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The end of the year brings a cavalcade of seasonal specials, — and whether you like yours with a side of righteous feminist outrage or glorious drag eleganza, you’re all covered. There’s also a spike in curiosity-piquing nonfiction set for the next few weeks, covering everything from Marilyn Monroe’s legacy to the Sandra Bland death investigation to the spiritual transcendentalism of surfing. All this, plus the return of Starz’s double-your-pleasure sci-fi/espionage thriller and a new Pete Holmes stand-up set on HBO. Here’s what you’ll...
- 11/30/2018
- by Charles Bramesco
- Rollingstone.com
Shortlist of 15 films to be announced on December 17.
Us box office hits Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Rbg, Three Identical Strangers and Free Solo have made it on to the 166-strong longlist of documentary feature Oscar hopefuls.
The shortlist of 15 films will be announced on December 17. Thursday’s (8) longlist includes Fahrenheit 11/9, Crime + Punishment, Generation Wealth, Maria By Calas, The Price Of Everything, Pope Francis – A Man of His Word, Ruben Blades Is Not My Name, Shirkers, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, Trust Machine, and Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. are also in contention.
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Us box office hits Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Rbg, Three Identical Strangers and Free Solo have made it on to the 166-strong longlist of documentary feature Oscar hopefuls.
The shortlist of 15 films will be announced on December 17. Thursday’s (8) longlist includes Fahrenheit 11/9, Crime + Punishment, Generation Wealth, Maria By Calas, The Price Of Everything, Pope Francis – A Man of His Word, Ruben Blades Is Not My Name, Shirkers, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, Trust Machine, and Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. are also in contention.
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- 11/8/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said today that 166 films have been submitted for Feature Documentary consideration for the 91st Academy Awards. Among them are box office success stories Rgb, Three Identical Strangers, Free Solo and Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
The Academy notes that several of the films have not yet had their required Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and comply with all of the category’s other qualifying rules in order to advance in the voting process. This year, for the first time, films that have won a qualifying award at a competitive film festival or have been submitted in the Foreign Language Film category as their country’s official selection, are also eligible in the category.
A shortlist of 15 films will be announced on December 17, and Oscar nominations will be unveil January 22. The hardware...
The Academy notes that several of the films have not yet had their required Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and comply with all of the category’s other qualifying rules in order to advance in the voting process. This year, for the first time, films that have won a qualifying award at a competitive film festival or have been submitted in the Foreign Language Film category as their country’s official selection, are also eligible in the category.
A shortlist of 15 films will be announced on December 17, and Oscar nominations will be unveil January 22. The hardware...
- 11/8/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Stenberg is the star of a new adaptation of the Ya novel phenomenon. The actor, and the film’s director, discuss cinema’s new generation of resistance
Any resemblance between The Hate U Give and your average teen movie evaporates about 20 minutes in, when 16-year-old Starr Carter, played by Amandla Stenberg, witnesses a police officer shoot dead her friend Khalil at point-blank range. By this stage, Starr’s father has already given her The Talk, the time-honoured ritual where African-American parents instruct their children how to behave if stopped by the police: be polite, stay calm, put your hands where they can see them. When their car is pulled over, Starr follows the drill. Khalil reaches for a hairbrush. The police officer thinks it’s a gun. That’s all it takes.
The Hate U Give is fictional, but barely. To see the stricken expression on Stenberg’s face during...
Any resemblance between The Hate U Give and your average teen movie evaporates about 20 minutes in, when 16-year-old Starr Carter, played by Amandla Stenberg, witnesses a police officer shoot dead her friend Khalil at point-blank range. By this stage, Starr’s father has already given her The Talk, the time-honoured ritual where African-American parents instruct their children how to behave if stopped by the police: be polite, stay calm, put your hands where they can see them. When their car is pulled over, Starr follows the drill. Khalil reaches for a hairbrush. The police officer thinks it’s a gun. That’s all it takes.
The Hate U Give is fictional, but barely. To see the stricken expression on Stenberg’s face during...
- 10/19/2018
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Arrested and charged with a felony assault simply for bruising the fragile ego of Waller County, Texas officer Brian Encinia, Sandra Bland would later end up dead in an alleged suicide in an empty back corner holding cell in county lock-up. The details of her mysterious death, as detailed by an independent autopsy, still prove to be inconclusive as noted: there’s no DNA on the plastic garbage liner used in the hanging nor did this particular corner have cameras and proper monitoring.
Kate Davis and David Heilbroner’s Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland provides more questions than answers on the circumstance of her death, but also gives a sketch of her life as a young woman finding herself in a series of entry-level jobs in Chicago after college. A graduate of Waller County’s Prairie View A&M University, an Hbcu, she finds herself...
Kate Davis and David Heilbroner’s Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland provides more questions than answers on the circumstance of her death, but also gives a sketch of her life as a young woman finding herself in a series of entry-level jobs in Chicago after college. A graduate of Waller County’s Prairie View A&M University, an Hbcu, she finds herself...
- 5/5/2018
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
One of the most galvanizing episodes in this generation's civil rights struggle, the brutal arrest and question-raising death of activist Sandra Bland, is poignantly explored in David Heilbroner and Kate Davis' Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland. Hitting Tribeca alongside the first episode of a Trayvon Martin docuseries and other race-conscious docs, the film is not as effective in its storytelling as the duo's previous Tribeca entry, 2014's The Newburgh Sting. But it captures the controversy emotionally enough to move audiences on the fest circuit and, when it airs on HBO later this year, should revive...
- 5/2/2018
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Blindspotting actors and co-writers Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal took to the stage at CinemaCon last week during Lionsgate’s presentation of their Sundance film for a spoken word performance that paid tribute to the unarmed people of color who were killed by police — specifically in the past few years.
In the video above, Diggs and Casal wax poetic about police violence and from the beginning recite the names of victims that have made headlines such as Freddie Gray, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland and many others. Passionate and woke, Diggs and Casal thoughtfully schooled the CinemaCon audience with their words — and they are more qualified than anyone to do so. In addition to being an actor, Diggs is best known for spitting rhymes a mile-a-minute, particularly in his Tony award-winning performance in Hamilton. Casal is a lauded poet and musician who has appeared on three seasons of HBO...
In the video above, Diggs and Casal wax poetic about police violence and from the beginning recite the names of victims that have made headlines such as Freddie Gray, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland and many others. Passionate and woke, Diggs and Casal thoughtfully schooled the CinemaCon audience with their words — and they are more qualified than anyone to do so. In addition to being an actor, Diggs is best known for spitting rhymes a mile-a-minute, particularly in his Tony award-winning performance in Hamilton. Casal is a lauded poet and musician who has appeared on three seasons of HBO...
- 4/28/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
HBO's new documentary film Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland tackles the controversial 2015 suicide of Chicago woman Sandra Bland, with Bland herself taking the lead role thanks to Sandy Speaks, her online video series where she discussed racial inequality, including police brutality toward black people.
“Sandra was different because she was writing about, speaking about the very issues that came back to haunt her,” co-director David Heilbroner told The Hollywood Reporter of his and fellow director Kate Davis' attraction to the project. “This had this eerie resonance that there was no other story like that in the country.”
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“Sandra was different because she was writing about, speaking about the very issues that came back to haunt her,” co-director David Heilbroner told The Hollywood Reporter of his and fellow director Kate Davis' attraction to the project. “This had this eerie resonance that there was no other story like that in the country.”
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- 4/27/2018
- by Zoe Haylock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Frank Wuterich, Sandra Bland and Rachel Dolezal captured the attention of the country for weeks, sometimes months, only to eventually be eclipsed by fresher faces in the news.
But documentary filmmakers couldn’t forget their stories – or those of other news makers. So they decided to investigate further, peeling back the proverbial onion on stories that had once been under a short-term microscope. The result is seven documentaries at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival that explore the truths, the lies and the aftermath of stories we thought that we knew.
Michael Epstein got the idea to make “House Two” 12 years ago when he read about the 2005 Haditha, Iraq, massacre, where U.S. Marines killed 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women, and children — some of them at close range inside a small bedroom.
“I began working on this film when the massacre was a part of media diet,” Epstein says. “I thought I...
But documentary filmmakers couldn’t forget their stories – or those of other news makers. So they decided to investigate further, peeling back the proverbial onion on stories that had once been under a short-term microscope. The result is seven documentaries at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival that explore the truths, the lies and the aftermath of stories we thought that we knew.
Michael Epstein got the idea to make “House Two” 12 years ago when he read about the 2005 Haditha, Iraq, massacre, where U.S. Marines killed 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women, and children — some of them at close range inside a small bedroom.
“I began working on this film when the massacre was a part of media diet,” Epstein says. “I thought I...
- 4/18/2018
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
HBO has shared a first-look clip from its new documentary, Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland.
The film, about the suspicious death of the outspoken Chicago native, is set to premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and will air on HBO later this year.
Sandra Bland was 28 years old when a traffic violation in a small Texas town led to her arrest and subsequent death. Although it was ruled a suicide, people across the nation questioned whether or not she was murdered by police officers. Ten days after Bland’s death, directors Kate...
The film, about the suspicious death of the outspoken Chicago native, is set to premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and will air on HBO later this year.
Sandra Bland was 28 years old when a traffic violation in a small Texas town led to her arrest and subsequent death. Although it was ruled a suicide, people across the nation questioned whether or not she was murdered by police officers. Ten days after Bland’s death, directors Kate...
- 4/18/2018
- by Zoe Haylock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
HBO has shared a first-look clip from its new documentary, <i>Say Her Name</i>: <i>The Life and Death of Sandra Bland.</i>
The film, about the suspicious death of the outspoken Chicago native, is set to premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and will air on HBO later this year.
Sandra Bland was 28 years old when a traffic violation in a small Texas town led to her arrest and subsequent death. Although it was ruled a suicide, people across the nation questioned whether or not she was murdered by police officers. Ten days after Bland’s death, directors Kate ...
The film, about the suspicious death of the outspoken Chicago native, is set to premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and will air on HBO later this year.
Sandra Bland was 28 years old when a traffic violation in a small Texas town led to her arrest and subsequent death. Although it was ruled a suicide, people across the nation questioned whether or not she was murdered by police officers. Ten days after Bland’s death, directors Kate ...
- 4/18/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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How to Get Away with Murder star Viola Davis is bringing her real life investigative skills to the small screen, with new TV One documentary series Two Sides of the Truth. Narrated by the Oscar-winning actress, the show will look at four notable accounts of police encounters that ended up fatal.
“What this show does is it arms you with as much information as possible – even the information that you probably didn’t want to hear when the incident happened,” says Davis in a promotional clip from the series.
According to the couple, the show examines multiple viewpoints regarding recent...
“What this show does is it arms you with as much information as possible – even the information that you probably didn’t want to hear when the incident happened,” says Davis in a promotional clip from the series.
According to the couple, the show examines multiple viewpoints regarding recent...
- 1/19/2018
- by Shelby Reitman
- PEOPLE.com
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