Gotham Alumni On Screen: June 2024
by The Gotham Staff on June 12, 2024 in Alumni on Screen
Welcome to Alumni on Screen, June 2024 edition! To champion and signal-boost our Gotham-supported projects, at the top of each month we’ll have a rundown of alumni making their way into the world on screens both big and small.
In Theaters June 21-27, Streaming on Apple TV+ June 28
Since her sister’s disappearance, Jax (Lily Gladstone) has cared for her niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson) by scraping by on the Seneca-Cayuga reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute goes into finding her missing sister while also helping Roki prepare for an upcoming powwow. At the risk of Jax losing custody to Roki’s grandfather, Frank (Shea Whigham), the pair hit the road and scour the backcountry to track down Roki’s mother in time for the powwow. What begins as a search gradually turns into a far deeper investigation into the complexities and contradictions of Indigenous women moving through a colonized world while at the mercy of a failed justice system.
Directed by Erica Tremblay.
Gotham Alum: Fancy Dance is an alum of 2021 Project Market – U.S. Features.
In Theaters and VOD June 14
In defiance of Russia’s anti-LGTBQ laws, a queer, 21-year-old artist risks her life performing in surreal costumes throughout Moscow. Jenna Marvin’s radical public performances blend artistry and activism in this SXSW documentary.
Directed by Agniia Galdanova.
Gotham Alum: Queendom is an alum of the 2022 Project Market – Spotlight on Docs.
In Theaters June 14
Zaffan is a rebellious and carefree young girl, until she begins to see horrifying physical changes in her body. When her friends find out, hysteria ensues – one by one teen girls drop to the floor in fits and rumors of a dark figure causing it quickly spread through their school. A medical officer arrives to drive out the demon and he suspects Zaffan may be the problem. He begins to perform an exorcism on her, until she reveals her true self, her wrath, rage and her beauty, to everyone.
Directed by Amanda Nell Eu.
Gotham Alum: Tiger Stripes is an alum of the 2020 Project Market – International Features (Malaysia).
Streaming on PBS POV June 24
A lyrical tapestry of a place and people, King Coal meditates on the complex history and future of the coal industry, the communities it has shaped, and the myths it has created. The film reshapes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking and transcends time and place, untangling the pain from the beauty, and illuminating the innately human capacity for imagination and change.
Directed by Elaine McMillion Sheldon.
Gotham Alum: King Coal is an alum of the 2020 Project Market – Spotlight on Docs.
In Theaters June 21-27, Streaming on PBS POV July 1
Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía “Beba” Contreras tell their own coming-of-age story inHummingbirds, a punk-rock portrait of the last summer of their youth on the Texas-Mexico border. Together they transform their hometown of Laredo into a cinematic wonderland of creative expression and activist hijinx. Winner of the Berlinale Generation Grand Jury Prize, Hummingbirds celebrates the power of friendship, laughter, and joy as tools of survival and resistance.
Directed by Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía “Beba” Contreras.
Gotham Alum: Hummingbirds is an alum of the 2021 Project Market – Spotlight on Docs.
If your project is an alumnus of The Gotham programs and is being released this month, and you do not see it listed here, please contact us at [email protected]