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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Film Forum

Michael Roemer’s Dying and Pilgrim, Farewell, screen (watch our exclusive trailer debut); AI: From Metropolis to Ex Machina continues; a print of The Music Man screens on Sunday.

Anthology Film Archives

Wandering Women features films by Barbara Loden, Sembène, Ken Loach, Masao Adachi and more.

IFC Center

Eraserhead, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Mulholland Dr., and Inland Empire all screen; the classic rock doc Dig! returns with an extended recut Seven and Jennifer’s Body show late.

Roxy Cinema

Fat City screens on 35mm this Saturday alongside the return of City Dudes; Brick plays Friday.

Museum of Modern Art

A major highlight of any filmgoing year, To Save and Project continues.

Museum of the Moving Image

See It Big! Let It Snow brings The Shining, Larisa Shepitko’s The Ascent, and a 35mm print of The Gold Rush...

Veteran documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner and her wife, Morgan Doctor, were working on a film in Rome on Jan. 7 when they got a late-night phone call. It was Timoner’s brother. He was calling to inform his sister that he and his family, and their 86-year-old mother, Lisa, had all evacuated to her home in Altadena.

“They all came to my house because the wind was barely even blowing there,” says Timoner. “They had all been evacuated from their Altadena homes. So, they got to my place, and my brother started making dinner. There was no evacuation order whatsoever, and then suddenly the power went off, and they saw flames, and everybody panicked and left.”

Timoner and Doctor were alarmed by the call on Jan. 7 but got on their scheduled flight to Budapest the following day. They were traveling to Hungary to interview a Holocaust survivor. When they arrived, Timoner...

Ondi Timoner was in Budapest filming a Holocaust documentary when she learned her house in Altadena had been destroyed in the Eaton Fire. When she was finally able to fly back to Los Angeles, she had little time to absorb what she’d lost, going straight from Lax to the sold-out “Dig! Xx” screening at Vidiots in Eagle Rock.

The mood was already nostalgic at the event, with shared memories of the chaotic shoot of the original film, 2004’s “Dig!” But after the devastating fires, which also took the home of her brother, the film’s editor David Timoner, the gathering of the film and music community also became a wake of sorts.

“I love that this loving audience was here,” she said of the sold-out event, where she and David were met with hugs, condolences and offers to help catalog everything she lost in the fire. Vidiots gifted Ondi and David,...

In “All God’s Children,” director Ondi Timoner invites viewers into the intricate tapestry of modern faith and social justice, weaving a narrative that is as urgent as it is poignant. The film focuses on Rabbi Rachel Timoner, the strong leader of Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, and Reverend Dr. Robert Waterman, the enthusiastic pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in the diverse Bedford-Stuyvesant area.

They must confront the chasms that divide their communities as their journey progresses against a backdrop of growing antisemitism and systemic racial injustice. Timoner’s lens catches the essence of their ambitious collaboration, which seeks to heal the historical and cultural gaps between their congregations, a job fraught with complexity and tension.

Ondi Timoner, known for her sharp storytelling in previous works like “Last Flight Home” and “Dig!,” uses a mix of personal observation and broader social critique to reveal the raw emotions and difficulties involved...

Typically, when you see a relationship dubbed “star-crossed,” it’s a forbidden romantic relationship. But in the case of the documentary “Dig! Xx,” star-crossed is the perfect description of the relationship between two members of beloved ‘90s Gen-x bands.

Read More: ‘Dig! Xx’ Review: Rivalry Rock Doc Is Still Captivating, But Evolves & Demystifies The Fable Of F’d Up, Tortured Artist

As seen in the trailer for “Dig!

Continue reading ‘Dig! Xx’ Trailer: Ondi Timoner’s Classic Dandy Warhols vs The Brian Jonestown Massacre Rock Doc Returns In January at The Playlist.

One of the great music documentaries of all-time has received new life. For its 20th anniversary, Ondi Timoner’s Dig! has received a remastered and enhanced version with Dig! Xx, which premiered earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival. Following rival psych-rock bands the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols over a tumultuous eight years, Oscilloscope Laboratories has now announced the North American release, set for January 17, 2025, and debuted a new trailer.

Dig! Xx is a remastered, enhanced remix of the original cult classic. Edited from the original 2,500 hours of footage by David Timoner, who produced and shot the original Dig! alongside his sister, Ondi, this version adds nearly 40 minutes of previously-unseen footage, offering nuance and context to the chaotic journey and love-hate relationships of the musicians featured, and bringing the iconic story up to current day. It also includes new narration from the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Joel Gion,...

"Is anybody going to get grumpy & irritable and start fighting with each other?" Oscope Labs has debuted the official trailer for a documentary film called Dig! Xx, a brand new update on the classic rock doc Dig! from 2004. Re-directed by Ondi Timoner, Dig! Xx (now 20 years later) is a bigger, better, crazier expanded reimagining of the original cut – reminds us why the original is canon and why sometimes, more is better. Dig! Xx tracks the tumultuous rise of two talented musicians – Anton Newcombe, leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Courtney Taylor, leader of the Dandy Warhols, and dissects their star-crossed friendship and bitter rivalry. Through loves and obsessions, gigs and recordings, arrests and death threats, uppers and downers, and ultimately to their chance at a piece of the profit-driven music business, they stage a self-proclaimed revolution in the music industry. This features Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Peter Holmström, Joel Gion, Zia Mccabe.

Buddyhead, the LA music website and record label, is getting the documentary treatment.

The group, which was created by Travis Keller and The Icarus Line’s Aaron North in 1998, was infamous for its brash attitude in the late ‘90s and early 2000s with pranks such as stealing Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst’s baseball caps and auctioning them off for a rape charity and vandalizing The Strokes’ tour bus.

Keller and Joe Cardamone, the former frontman of The Icarus Line, are now putting together a documentary with some help from artist Shepard Fairey and Mayans M.C. co-creator Elgin James.

On The Lash: The Buddyhead Movie will be co-directed by Keller and Cardamone and produced by Fairey and James.

“It’s the birth of the internet, it’s the death rattle of the old world and its story of Buddyhead and The Icarus Line. It’s a time capsule constructed...

In the 20 years since her breakout film Dig!, about the uber-cool post-rock cold war between rival bands The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Ondi Timoner has positioned herself as a great explorer of the times we live in, usually while that history is still unfolding. In the case of 2009’s We Live in Public and, in particular, last year’s The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution, she was so far ahead of the game that those films still can’t be considered case studies in the past tense, anticipating as they did the still-to-be-assessed impact of the internet on the human psyche. All God’s Children is unusual in that, although it, too, is very much in and about the present moment, it’s a film that’s also in dialogue — thoughtfully, and powerfully — with the past.

Timoner’s poignant 2022 film Last Flight Home, which unflinchingly documented her...

Exclusive: The Jewish Film Institute has announced six projects that will receive a total of $80,000 in Jfi Completion Grants, including the latest film from Oscar-shortlisted director and two-time Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Ondi Timoner.

Timoner’s All God’s Children tells the story of a rabbi and a protestant minister in New York who unite their congregations to “combat the rising tension in their Brooklyn communities.” The rabbi, Rachel Timoner, is Ondi Timoner’s sister.

The nonprofit Jfi, which “champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere,” has distributed more $400,000 in grants to filmmakers since 2020. Along with Timoner’s project, newly announced recipients include Amber Fares’ Coexistence, My Ass!, a documentary that follows Israeli comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi “as she struggles to create a one-woman comedy show called Coexistence, My Ass! about racism, sexism, war, peace and… her ass.” See below for the full list of 2024 grantees.

Throughout the early 2000s, the rock ‘n’ roll film festival “Don’t Knock the Rock” was one of the highlights of any L.A.-based cinephile’s year, an impeccably assembled program of movies, live performances, and panels celebrating the intersection between rock ‘n’ roll and cinema. Created by writer-director Allison Anders and music supervisor Tiffany Anders, “Don’t Knock the Rock” was beloved for its determination to showcase difficult-to-see music documentaries and for the breadth and depth of its programming.

The festival last graced L.A. screens in 2016, but now it’s returning to Hollywood via the American Cinematheque with a line-up that’s one of the best ever. From May 23-27, “Don’t Knock the Rock” will screen an eclectic mix of documentaries, music-themed narrative films, and essential retrospective programs at the Cinematheque’s Los Feliz venue, with an added virtual component that will stream from May 23-July 31. Among the...

When documentary filmmaker Ondi Timononer and her brother David set out in the mid 90s to capture the tribulations and hopeful ascent of ten indie bands as they attempted to navigate the big bad record industry at the end of the 20th century, it’s unlikely that they ever dreamed their first feature effort would drastically change not only their own lives but the lives of their subjects, which would fatefully be whittled down to just two psychedelic revival groups: The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. I would go further to say that Dig!, the culminating film of the Timoner siblings’ seven-year shoot, has affected the lives of its fans as well, and I’m speaking here from personal experience. I was 20 when Dig!...

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The Sundance Film Festival has wrapped in snowy Park City, and Deadline was on the ground to watch all of the key films. Here is a compilation of our reviews from the fest, which include festival award winners like Daughters, the documentary that took the Festival Favorite Award, and A Real Pain, which won the Waldo Salt Screenwriter Award for its writer-director-star Jesse Eisenberg.

Other pics include several that were scooped up by distributors, led by Steven Soderbergh’s ghost story Presence selling to Neon, A Real Pain going to Searchlight, Ghostlight to IFC Films, and Netflix’s smash $17 million deal for It’s What’s Inside.

Check out the reviews below, click on the titles to read them in full, and keep checking back as we add more.

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Cast: Justice Smith,...

Twenty years ago, Ondi Timoner’s rock doc “Dig!” the wildly entertaining, sensationalistic portrait of the dysfunctional indie rock bands the Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols and their strange love/hate relationship and rivalry, was a smash hit, at least critically, winning the Sundance Prize Grandy Jury Prize for Best Documentary and squarely landing the filmmaker on the map. The new expanded version, “Dig!

Continue reading ‘Dig! Xx’ Review: Rivalry Rock Doc Is Still Captivating, But Evolves & Demystifies The Fable Of F’d Up, Tortured Artist at The Playlist.

Once upon a time on the West Coast, two bands were plotting a revolution.

Well, really, it was one musician concocting a grand plan to dismantle the record industry, bring back a massive revival of 1960s psychedelic rock, and achieve total world domination. His name was Anton Newcombe, and this singer/multi-instrumentalist fronted a San Francisco group blessed with one of the greatest names of any 1990s band: the Brian Jonestown Massacre. The only thing better than their moniker was the music itself, which replicated the vintage, acid-soaked sounds of...

October 6, 1927, was a pivotal date in the history of Cinema. It was on this date that Warner Bros. released “The Jazz Singer,” the feature film that marked the end of the silent movie era and brought a whole new dimension to the world of video editing: sound.

Today, the music, dialogue and foley that sound editors add to our favorite films are as integral to the experience as the images and script themselves. From Hollywood blockbusters to low-budget short films, sound drives stories forward. It sets the emotional tone, aids in making actors’ performances feel more genuine, and ensures audiences hear exactly and feel exactly what filmmakers want them to hear and feel throughout their viewing experience.

In short, sound editors turn the muffled dialogue and noise recorded by a boom mike and elevate it into the crisp, emotive audio that brings visual storytelling to life.

With the 2024 Sundance Film Festival taking over Park City,...

At the height of its failure, every day was Altamont for the Brian Jonestown Massacre, the San Francisco outfit founded in 1990 by Anton Newcombe, the Klaus Kinski of psychedelic rock. Just in time for this 20th anniversary overhaul of Ondi Timoner’s breakthrough documentary, the Bjm were back in the news as recently as November 2023, when the first night of an Australian tour ended in a riot. That the riot was confined to the stage, and played out in front of a dumbfounded audience, is Dig! Xx in a nutshell, a welcome return for a film that no less an authority than Dave Grohl calls, in a specially filmed new intro, “the greatest rock ’n’ roll documentary of all time.”

It helps to have a working knowledge of the two bands it features — the Bjm and Portland alt-rockers The Dandy Warhols — but Dig! Xx works on a meta level too,...

Dig!, Ondi Timoner’s 2004 documentary on The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols, remains an illuminating look at the turn-of-the-century indie rock scene in the United States. The film has been newly edited and restored and will play the 2024 Sundance Film Festival as Dig! Xx to celebrate the festival’s 40th anniversary. Below, David Timoner, who shared cinematography duties with his sister Ondi and Vasco Tunes on the original Dig! walks down memory lane as he relates their ingenuity in capturing such intimate footage and how the quality of the cameras improved alongside the bands’ popularity. See all responses to our annual […]

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Dig!, Ondi Timoner’s 2004 documentary on The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols, remains an illuminating look at the turn-of-the-century indie rock scene in the United States. The film has been newly edited and restored and will play the 2024 Sundance Film Festival as Dig! Xx to celebrate the festival’s 40th anniversary. Below, David Timoner, who shared cinematography duties with his sister Ondi and Vasco Tunes on the original Dig! walks down memory lane as he relates their ingenuity in capturing such intimate footage and how the quality of the cameras improved alongside the bands’ popularity. See all responses to our annual […]

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Films are made of and from places: the locations they are filmed in, the settings they are meant to evoke, the geographies where they are imagined and worked on. What place tells its own story about your film, whether a particularly challenging location that required production ingenuity or a map reference that inspired you personally, politically or creatively? The answer is The Road. It was made on the road. My brother David and I shot Dig! in a rumble tumble of different locations, be they vans, tour buses, different cities and countries from Europe to Tokyo, all sorts of venues […]

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Films are made of and from places: the locations they are filmed in, the settings they are meant to evoke, the geographies where they are imagined and worked on. What place tells its own story about your film, whether a particularly challenging location that required production ingenuity or a map reference that inspired you personally, politically or creatively? The answer is The Road. It was made on the road. My brother David and I shot Dig! in a rumble tumble of different locations, be they vans, tour buses, different cities and countries from Europe to Tokyo, all sorts of venues […]

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Dig!, a documentary about two bands – The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols – is a musical trainwreck, equal parts romantic comedy and horror film that follows the highs and lows of being a musician, in the studio, on the road and in their own heads.

The film, which launched at Sundance in 2004 and is returning to the festival this year with an extended cut, is a favorite among the musical class. I’ve sat in countless tour vans and crappy motels where it’s watched, quoted and dissected by kids with a dream and a drumkit.

Dave Grohl, the legendary Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman, told me that it’s a “f*cking masterpiece” and that it’s also his favorite horror film.

“Watching a documentary like Dig!, seeing these two bands fall in love with each other, which happens often. You find your brother band, your sister band,...

For four decades, Sundance has maintained a reputation as one of the most important film festivals in America for independent filmmakers from around the globe. To commemorate its 40th anniversary in 2024 and the enormity (and reciprocity) of that cultural footprint, festival leadership set a series of restoration screenings to highlight many of the most memorable films programmed throughout its history.

“When you look at the way the independent film movement has evolved and changed over the years, from the maturation of an industry and the opportunities that artists have found, to the way that an audience has been built around the work, you see a festival that has evolved alongside it,” says John Nein, senior programmer and director of strategic initiatives.

This year’s festival takes place Jan. 18-28, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, with a selection of titles available online nationwide from Jan. 25-28. The...

Sundance is celebrating its 40th Anniversary next month and the festival has revealed more programming to highlight its cinematic legacy. Topping the list of events are new 4K restorations of “Napoleon Dynamite,” “Go Fish,” “Three Seasons,” and an extended version of “Dig!,” with over 30 minutes of new footage, retitled “Dig!Xx.” Additionally, there will be screenings of “The Babadook,” and “Pariah” as well as restorations of “Mississippi Masala” and “The Times of Harvey Milk.”

Read More: Sundance 2024: New works from Steven Sodergh, Debra Granik, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck and more

Alumni always have a home to return to in Park City and 2024 will be no exception.

Continue reading ‘Napoleon Dynamite,’ ‘The Babadook,’ ‘Go Fish’ & More Return To Celebrate Sundance’s 40th Anniversary at The Playlist.

The 40th Edition of the Sundance Film Festival announced their 53 Short Films for the 2024 lineup in addition to a 20th anniversary 4K restored version of Napoleon Dynamite, as well as other Sundance fave re-releases.

There’s a 30th anniversary of Go Fish, 25th anniversary of Three Seasons and the 20th anniversary of Dig! (with 30 minutes of additional footage), titled Dig! Xx.

There’s also restorations of The Babadook and Pariah, and restorations of Mississippi Masala and The Times of Harvey Milk.

In addition, there’s several Sundance alum panels including Power of Story: Four Decades of Taking Chances about the legacy of independent storytelling featuring Miguel Arteta, Richard Linklater, Dawn Porter, and Christine Vachon; a screening of seminal short films from Sundance’s history hosted by Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass; and a workshop for emerging creators with Carlos López Estrada and others.

The shorts for 2024 were curated from 12,098 submissions,...

The Sundance Institute announced today the 2024 Sundance Film Festival short film lineup and the 40th Edition Celebration Screenings and Events — programming featuring alumni artists looking back on the festival’s four-decade history. The 40th Edition events will take place the second half of the festival (January 23 – 26) and will include brand-new 4K restorations of Napoleon Dynamite (20th anniversary) Go Fish (30th anniversary), Three Seasons (25th anniversary), and an extended version of Dig! (20th anniversary), featuring over 30 minutes of additional footage, titled Dig! Xx. Also showing will be The Babadook and Pariah, and restorations of Mississippi Masala […]

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The Sundance Institute announced today the 2024 Sundance Film Festival short film lineup and the 40th Edition Celebration Screenings and Events — programming featuring alumni artists looking back on the festival’s four-decade history. The 40th Edition events will take place the second half of the festival (January 23 – 26) and will include brand-new 4K restorations of Napoleon Dynamite (20th anniversary) Go Fish (30th anniversary), Three Seasons (25th anniversary), and an extended version of Dig! (20th anniversary), featuring over 30 minutes of additional footage, titled Dig! Xx. Also showing will be The Babadook and Pariah, and restorations of Mississippi Masala […]

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The 2024 Sundance lineup is coming into fuller view, including celebrations for its 40th edition and its shorts program. The festival will take place January 18 through 28 in-person in Park City and Salt Lake City, with a selection of titles available online nationwide from January 25 through 28 via digital platforms.

The festival will introduce new short films for 2024 across eight curated programs, including a festival retrospective hosted by Mark and Jay Duplass. This year’s programming for new titles features 53 short films selected from 12,098 submissions, the highest number on record. Of these submissions, 5,323 were from the U.S., and 6,799 were international. The selected shorts represent 22 countries.

In addition to the shorts programming, the special 40th edition celebration screenings and events kick off on January 23, bringing Sundance alumni together for conversations and gatherings while revisiting iconic films like new 4K restorations of “Napoleon Dynamite” for its 20th anniversary, the 25th anniversary of “Three Seasons,...

The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s concert in Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday descended into chaos after frontman Anton Newcombe and guitarist Ryan Van Kriedt brawled onstage.

As depicted in fan-captured video posted on social media, the musicians began fighting after Newcombe appeared to fire Van Kriedt in the middle of the concert. “Cut off this guy’s mic, put down my guitar, party’s over captain,” Newcombe said to Van Kriedt. “We actually don’t need you. Go! Put my guitar down on the stage and think about what’s happening.”

“You better think about this one, man. Because this is forever!” Van Kriedt responded as he took off his guitar and began to exit the stage. As he approached Newcombe, the two gave each other the middle finger and got into a shoving match. Newcombe appeared to then swing a guitar at Van Kriedt, leading to a full-fledged brawl, with...

Ondi Timoner’s 2004 documentary Dig! is a masterful blend of everything there is to love about rock music. There is the superb songwriting and guitar playing of both The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols, two '90s bands that beautifully blended garage rock and psychedelics to create a unique sound. There’s the vain, petty, and even childish behavior of some of the band members, who obviously heard tales of rocker antics and sought to imitate them. There’s the fierce competitiveness and ferocious drive for success that many '90s bands pretended not to have, lest they seem too interested in commercialism. And finally, there is the frenemy relationship at the heart of the film between the two bands’ frontmen, which veers almost into reality TV territory. As we revisit this remarkably unique rock doc, we’ll see why its embrace of everything both wonderful and terrible...

MTV Documentary Films has boarded new projects about an all-girl Afghan robotics team, a #MeToo crime story, an imprisoned mural artist and a community of disabled children in Pakistan. The documentaries join a slate that includes Ondi Timoner’s Sundance title “Last Flight Home,” which will be screening at Telluride this week in a rare double festival act.

The fledgling division, which was Oscar-nominated for the film “Ascension” earlier this year, was set up in 2019 by legendary HBO Documentary Films boss Sheila Nevins, and ViacomCBS executives Liza Burnett Fefferman and Nina L. Diaz. Nevins was at HBO for 38 years and won 34 Emmys in that period. Her credits include “Citizenfour,” “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief” and “Paradise Lost.”

The slate spans four feature-length documentaries and six short films (full details below), with Timoner’s “Last Flight Home” serving as a centrepiece.

The “Dig!” director’s acclaimed film follows...

Plans afoot for autumn theatrical release and awards campaign.

MTV Documentary Films has acquired worldwide rights to two-time Sundance grand jury prize winner Ondi Timoner’s Sundance 2022 entry Last Flight Home in what sources said was a highly competitive situation.

Screen review: ’Last Flight Home’

The Interloper Films production received its world premiere as a Special Screening during the online festival last month and sees veteran documentarian Timoner present a loving account of her ailing father Eli Timoner’s life as he expresses his desire to end his life.

Ondi Timoner, who won Sundance grand jury prizes for Dig! in...

MTV Documentary Films has acquired worldwide rights to Ondi Timoner’s “Last Flight Home,” a moving and deeply personal portrait of family dealing with the last days of their patriarch. The documentary had several bidders and the sale was highly competitive.

“Last Flight Home” was a favorite with critics after it premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. MTV Documentary Films is planning a theatrical release in the fall along with an awards campaign. “Last Flight Home” was written, directed and edited by Ondi Timoner, the filmmaker behind “Dig!” and “We Live in Public.” She also produced the film with David Turner.

The film follows Eli Timoner, a suburban man and business leader whose meteoric rise was impacted by health struggles. It charts his last remaining days, while celebrating an extraordinary life, one filled with wild achievements, tragic loss and enduring love from an incredibly close-knit family. Eli Timoner...

Dave Grohl hasn’t sat still for more than 30 years, so it’s not much of a surprise that he’s ended up creating and starring in his own feature film.

As Pat Smear, one of the founders of L.A. punk legends The Germs, touring guitarist in Nirvana and a cornerstone of Grohl’s Foo Fighters, told him, “Drummers are like sharks, if they stop moving, they’ll die.”

In Studio 666, a horror comedy in the vein of The Evil Dead, perpetual movement doesn’t necessarily prevent death either. (Watch the trailer below.)

Grohl, who came up with the idea of the Open Road Films-distributed film that debuts theatrically on February 25, is a fascinating creature.

For some, he is best known as the drummer of Nirvana; for many he is the founder and frontman of Foo Fighters, a group that began as a solo project and turned into one of the most successful,...

Ondi Timoner has already won two Sundance grand jury prizes for her documentaries. But she is especially nervous about screening “Last Flight Home” at this year’s virtual festival.

“It’s a scary moment for me because this film is so personal,” says Timoner of the documentary about her father and his final days. “It’s my family at their most vulnerable so, I feel responsible for putting everyone in this position.”

Timoner and her family decided to be in Park City for the film’s Jan. 24 premiere despite the fact Sundance went virtual due to the concerns about surging Covid-19 cases due to the omicron variant.

“We’re having a private watch party,” says Timoner, who won her first grand jury prize for “Dig!” in 2004 and her second for “We Live in Public” five years later; both were later acquired by the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent film collection.

Jewish Story Partners, the non-profit film fund that launched six months ago, announced its second round of grant recipients on Monday. The winners came after an open submissions call that saw a 226% increase in participation from the first round.

An additional $280,000 has been awarded this year, bringing Jsp’s 2021 spend to $500,000 as they identify nonfiction work telling diverse Jewish stories. International filmmakers and fiction projects will be sought in the future. The group anticipates to hand out $800,000 in 2022 and $1 million by 2023.

New funders include the Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Films, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, Kronhill Pletka Foundation and Koret Foundation.

Monday’s grants will fund noted documentary filmmakers including: Kate Amend, Marilyn Ness, Pratibha Parmar, Dan Sturman and Ondi Timoner.

“Jewish documentary films are a window into the richness and complexity of the arc of Jewish history and Jewish lives today,” said Lynn and...

Ondi Timoner has been a fixture of American documentary filmmaking since 2003, when her debut feature “Dig!” put her on par with the rock stars she followed for the genre-smashing music documentary. “Dig!” took home Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize in 2004, a distinction Timoner earned again for her 2009 film “We Live In Public,” making her the only filmmaker to have won the prize twice. Both works were recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent film collection.

For her latest film, “Coming Clean,” Timoner takes on America’s raging opioid crisis, in a holistic look at addiction and recovery that focuses on human connection. “The Covid-19 pandemic has driven opioid overdoses deaths up by 50 percent, we felt we needed to get this film out to people as soon as possible,” Timoner told IndieWire.

IndieWire is debuting the trailer exclusively ahead of the film’s Thursday premiere at the Bentonville Film Festival.

NEW YORK -- A host of faves from festivals over the past year -- including the Sundance standout DIG! and Toronto pickups Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring and The Story of Weeping Camel -- have been selected to screen in this year's New Directors/New Films Festival, thrown by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The festival launches March 24 -- with Jim McKay's Everyday People, from HBO Films, serving as the opening-night feature -- and runs through April 4. A total of 22 features were selected.