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The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Netflix has acquired four documentaries that premiered at festivals, including Sundance, Telluride, and Tribeca.
The first is Jesse Short Bull and David France‘s Free Leonard Peltier, which recounts the story of the titular Native American activist, who spent 49 years in prison after being convicted of the murder of two FBI agents on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975, based on falsified evidence. The filmmakers also track the decade-long journey of getting Peltier out of prison, which occurred a week before its premiere at Sundance last year. The film will be released on Netflix October 12.
Teenaged Wasteland is the second acquisition. Directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, the documentary focuses on a group of students who, in the 1990s, were encouraged by their professor to make a student film. However, making the movie uncovered a conspiracy that poisoned their community, and the people who were a part of this experience recount what happened thirty years later. It will be released on September 4.
The third film listed is The Bend in the River, which is directed by Robb Moss and produced by Joel Coen and Frances McDormand. Moss has filmed himself and a group of friends for over fifty years, and periodically checks in with them to ask about the choices they’ve made during their lives. It will be released on December 17.
Finally, Alexander Hammer‘s Room to Move, produced by Amy Schumer, follows choreographer Jenn as she navigates life after a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder and expresses her current life through dance. It will be released in just a few weeks from today, on May 27.
In a statement, Netflix’s Vice President of Documentaries, Adam Del Deo, said, “It’s a privilege to give them a home on Netflix so audiences can keep discovering and loving great works like these.”
Source: THR
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