Tribeca 2018: Spotlight Documentary
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- DirectorAaron LieberStarsAlana BlanchardAdam DirksTobias DirksAfter losing an arm to a shark attack at age 13, Bethany Hamilton refuses to give up her dreams of being a professional surfer.
- DirectorSarah KerruishMatt MaudeStarsTony FadellAndy HertzfeldMarc PoratThe ideas that dominate the tech industry and our day to day lives were born at a secretive Silicon Valley start-up named 'General Magic', which spun out of Apple in 1990 to create the first handheld personal communicator (or "smartphone").
- DirectorDon HahnStarsDon HahnSarah GillespieShirley AshmanThe story of songwriter Howard Ashman who penned the lyrics for Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast before he died of AIDS at the height of the AIDS crisis in 1991.
- DirectorNeil GelinasStarsChris BoyesJack BoyesSteve BoyesA passionate conservation biologist brings together a river bushman fearful of losing his past and a young scientist uncertain of her future on an epic, four-month expedition across three countries, through unexplored and dangerous landscapes, in order to save the Okavango Delta, one of our planet's last pristine wildernesses.
- DirectorIan BonhôtePeter EttedguiStarsAlexander McQueenJoyce McQueenJohn HitchcockThe life and career of fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen: from his start as a tailor, to launching and overseeing his eponymous line and his untimely death.
- DirectorNancy SchwartzmanStarsMark ColeAnthony CraigRachel DissellAn account of a notable sexual assault that took place in Steubenville, Ohio in 2012, and the role that social media played in the crime and on the community.
- DirectorStephen Nomura SchibleStarsYellow Magic OrchestraRyuichi SakamotoA portrait of genius music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
- DirectorNicolas BrownStarsJim EstesJaime ExcellBob PaineExploring some of the most remote and spectacular places on Earth, five pioneering scientists make surprising discoveries that flip our understanding of nature on its head, and offer new hope for restoring our world.
- DirectorMurray CummingsStarsEd SheeranBeogaBenny Blanco'Songwriter' is an intimate and personal look into the writing process of one of the world's biggest artists - Ed Sheeran.
- DirectorMatt TyrnauerStarsIan SchragerSteve RubellDonald RubellThe story of the notorious 1970s New York City nightclub.
- DirectorAndrea Blaugrund NevinsStarsRichard DicksonKristina DuncanMichelle ChidoniBarbie, the most popular doll ever created is a fashion icon and a target for feminists. This features new footage, access to Barbie's biggest reinvention, and examines 60 years of women through the lens of an 11.5-inch plastic doll.
- DirectorKirby DickStarsJim SpencerJeanne LenzerMichael CaromeA look at the unforeseen consequences of advanced technological devices used in the medical field.
- DirectorMichael EpsteinStarsNeal PuckettA look at the investigation of two U.S. Marines who killed 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children in 2005.
- DirectorKate DavisDavid HeilbronerStarsSandra BlandShavon BlandHannah BonnerAn investigation into what happened to activist Sandra Bland, who died in police custody after a routine traffic stop.
- DirectorNorah ShapiroStarsIlhan OmarThis documentary follows the 2016 Minnesota House of Representatives campaign of Ilhan Omar, a Somalian immigrant who attempts to unseat a 43-year incumbent and other challengers.