Lauren Wissot

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Back to selection Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on May 2, 2025 Documentary, Isaac Gale, Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson’s Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted is a gonzo doc that perfectly reflects its trio of carpe diem stars — fun-loving musicians who reside in a bachelor pad in the hedonistic San Fernando Valley (aka the capital of porn).

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Back to selection Everything You Have is Yours by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on May 2, 2025 DCTV, Documentary, Everything You Have Is Yours, Tatyana Tenenbaum’ Tatyana Tenenbaum’s Everything You Have Is Yours centers on NYC-based choreographer Hadar Ahuvia, specifically her coming to terms, through her chosen art form, with the colonialism and cultural appropriation that birthed the Israeli folk dances she was raised on in Hawaii (by way of Israel/Palestine) and which she still...

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Back to selection by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on May 1, 2025 Documentary, Hot Docs 2025, We Live Here, Zhanana Kurmasheva “Some places on Earth carry a weight that is almost impossible to put into words” is how Zhanana Kurmasheva puts it in her director’s statement for We Live Here, which world-premiered at CPH:DOX and next screens in the World Showcase section at Hot Docs.

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Back to selection Free for All: Inside the Public Library by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on Apr 29, 2025 Dawn Logsdon, Documentary, Free for All: Inside the Public Library, Independent Lens, Lucie Faulknor Nearly 12 years in the making, Lucie Faulknor and Dawn Logsdon’s Free for All: Inside the Public Library is a heartfelt journey into the history of an institution that went from a radical idea (the “Free Library Movement”), to an entity taken for granted, to a present-day site of...

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Back to selection by Lauren Wissot in Directors, Interviews on Apr 28, 2025 Documentary, Hot Docs 2025, Maya Hawke, Rebecca Adorno-Dávila, River of Grass, Sasha Wortzel, Todd Chandler, True/False Film Fest 2025 “Nature will always win in the end,” notes Native American environmental activist Betty Osceola, one of several intriguing characters, human and not, that star in River of Grass, Sasha Wortzel’s highly personal love letter to a region both she and the Miccosukee tribal member call...