In “Alt-Right: Age of Rage,” screening at the Ji.hlava doc fest, director Adam Bhala Lough takes on the machinations of white power leader Richard Spencer, balancing his philosophies against the views of Daryle Lamont Jenkins – a spokesperson for the anti-fascist movement Antifa – who has tirelessly exposed the group who led the Charlottesville march last year that ended in the death of protester Heather Heyer and dozens of injuries. How did you arrive at the structure of “Alt-Right: Age of Rage,” in which you alternate between the white power leader Spencer and Antifa member Jenkins? Were their personalities important in deciding this way to tell the story? It was organic. We had a lot of characters but it felt unfocused. We honed it down to those two. We felt they represented their sides well, and the polar extremes of America. What was the most disturbing thing for you personally to...
- 10/27/2018
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Bryon ‘Babs’ Widner (Jamie Bell) hears the buzz of a faulty electrical connection, triggering a transition to an operating table and screams as the tattoos covering most of his body start being removed. It’s a soundscape that’ll have you squirming in your seat, the close-up shots of scar tissue replacing ink as physical a transformation as the act is metaphorical. Because the art adorning his face, neck, and torso isn’t some elaborate supernatural fantasy with family memorials—it’s a map to the blackest center of his soul. Babs is a white supremacist and these “patches” define his rage and vitriol. They mark him as property of his Viking captain (Bill Camp’s Fred), a man who saved his life before promptly stealing it by turning him into a monster.
This is the figure at the center of Guy Nattiv’s harrowing Skin, a real-life victim of...
This is the figure at the center of Guy Nattiv’s harrowing Skin, a real-life victim of...
- 9/12/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
“I think there is blame on both sides. You look at, you look at both sides. I think there’s blame on both sides, and I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either,” President Trump told a room full of reporters at a press conference following the Unite the Right white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, which resulted in the vehicular homicide of Heather Heyer. Occurring nearly one year ago today, the event was a chilling reminder of the festering hatred of the alt-right that has been invigorated by Trump and his rhetoric.
At this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival, director Adam Bhala Lough (The New Radical) premiered a new documentary Alt-Right: Age of Rage, which explores this divide in our country–one of, if not the first, to specifically look at the tragedy in Charlottesville in feature-length form. Featuring interviews...
At this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival, director Adam Bhala Lough (The New Radical) premiered a new documentary Alt-Right: Age of Rage, which explores this divide in our country–one of, if not the first, to specifically look at the tragedy in Charlottesville in feature-length form. Featuring interviews...
- 7/26/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Gravitas Ventures has secured the U.S. distribution rights to the Adam Bhala Lough-directed documentary Alt-Right: Age of Rage, which had its world premiere at SXSW. Gravitas will release the film in select theaters in August followed by a digital rollout October 30. The doc features activist Daryle Lamont Jenkins and alt-right leader Richard Spencer as it investigates major players on both sides of the battle, which bolstered after the recent Presidental election. Alex Needles and Michael Karbelnikoff produced the film while Peter Kline, Greg Stewart, and Brent Stiefel served as exec producers. Nolan Gallagher of Gravitas negotiated the deal with CAA on behalf of the filmmakers.
Cleopatra Entertainment has obtained the Us rights to Making A Killing, a crime drama produced and directed by Devin Hume. Starring Michael Jai White, Mike Starr, Jude Moran, Aida Turturro, Sally Kirkland, and Christopher Lloyd, the film follows three morticians who get caught in...
Cleopatra Entertainment has obtained the Us rights to Making A Killing, a crime drama produced and directed by Devin Hume. Starring Michael Jai White, Mike Starr, Jude Moran, Aida Turturro, Sally Kirkland, and Christopher Lloyd, the film follows three morticians who get caught in...
- 4/18/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Canadian documentary festival Hot Docs has added 17 additional special presentations.
They include McQueen, Ian Bonhôte’s documentary about fashion designer Alexander McQueen, and Steve Loveridge’s Matanga / Maya / M.I.A., the Sundance world premiere about British rapper and record producer M.I.A. that has been picked up for the UK by Dogwoof.
Other highlights in the programme include Liz Garbus’s The Fourth Estate, a look into how The New York Times covered the first year of the Trump presidency, and Mercury 13, the story of Nasa’s first female astronaut training programme.
The full selection from Hot Docs,...
They include McQueen, Ian Bonhôte’s documentary about fashion designer Alexander McQueen, and Steve Loveridge’s Matanga / Maya / M.I.A., the Sundance world premiere about British rapper and record producer M.I.A. that has been picked up for the UK by Dogwoof.
Other highlights in the programme include Liz Garbus’s The Fourth Estate, a look into how The New York Times covered the first year of the Trump presidency, and Mercury 13, the story of Nasa’s first female astronaut training programme.
The full selection from Hot Docs,...
- 3/13/2018
- by Adam Weddle
- ScreenDaily
A single, persistent question hangs over Adam Bhala Lough’s “Alt-Right: Age of Rage,” a blunt new documentary that chronicles how America’s white nationalists crawled out of the sewers during the first year of the Trump administration. And the question is this: Do we really need to watch a movie about these assholes?
The most striking moments of Lough’s scattershot new film address that question head-on, weighing — to use terms borrowed from one of the talking heads — the policy of quarantine vs. the policy of inoculation. In other words, does talking about neo-Nazis help expose the flimsy hatred that fuels their ideologies, or does giving oxygen to toxic firebrands like Richard Spencer and Milo Yiannopoulos only make them stronger? The mere fact that “Age of Rage” was shot, and that it possesses the baseline self-awareness required to reflect on its value, is enough to suggest that Lough believes in the former.
The most striking moments of Lough’s scattershot new film address that question head-on, weighing — to use terms borrowed from one of the talking heads — the policy of quarantine vs. the policy of inoculation. In other words, does talking about neo-Nazis help expose the flimsy hatred that fuels their ideologies, or does giving oxygen to toxic firebrands like Richard Spencer and Milo Yiannopoulos only make them stronger? The mere fact that “Age of Rage” was shot, and that it possesses the baseline self-awareness required to reflect on its value, is enough to suggest that Lough believes in the former.
- 3/10/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Making its world premiere at SXSW, Adam Bhala Lough’s documentary Alt-Right: Age of Rage comes at a time when tensions between the left and the right are at an all-time high under the Trump administration. In this exclusive clip from the feature documentary, Lough puts the camera on activist Daryle Lamont Jenkins and alt-right leader Richard Spencer as they talk about their respective movements. “I don't care if you're on the left or the right, truth is going…...
- 3/7/2018
- Deadline
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