After it bowed at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival, director Matthew Newton’s (“Three Blind Mice”) latest feature “From Nowhere” took home the Audience Award in the Narrative Spotlight section, and now the festival winner is due for its theatrical release.
The film will arrive in theaters on February 17 in both New York City (at the Village East) and in Los Angeles (at the Laemmle Music Hall). Its timing couldn’t be more appropriate, as the film reflects the fear of deportation that many people now have regarding the stance our current administration has on immigration.
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Set in The Bronx, the film centers around 3 undocumented teenagers on the brink of their high school graduation. Desperately wanting to live a life similar to their American classmates, Moussa (J. Mallory McCree), an African Muslim; Sophie (Octavia Chavez-Richmond), a troubled teen...
The film will arrive in theaters on February 17 in both New York City (at the Village East) and in Los Angeles (at the Laemmle Music Hall). Its timing couldn’t be more appropriate, as the film reflects the fear of deportation that many people now have regarding the stance our current administration has on immigration.
Read More: Jose Antonio Vargas on Using His Own Immigration Story For ‘Documented’
Set in The Bronx, the film centers around 3 undocumented teenagers on the brink of their high school graduation. Desperately wanting to live a life similar to their American classmates, Moussa (J. Mallory McCree), an African Muslim; Sophie (Octavia Chavez-Richmond), a troubled teen...
- 2/9/2017
- by Kerry Levielle
- Indiewire
The one-minute trailer for Jose Antonio Vargas’s White People — set to air on MTV Wednesday at 8 p.m. — has already drawn ire from the right. “No one has seen this film yet,” said National Review editor Rich Lowry. “But I think we can agree that it will be as stupid and exploitative as you expect from a network that brought us Jersey Shore and Teen Mom 2.” Having watched the film, though, the 40-minute documentary arguably has a much softer touch. “We talk about race a lot in this country. But we don’t include you in the conversation,” Vargas says at the beginning of the film to a group of young white people. “I’m interested in how you feel.”I first met Vargas at a screening for Documented, a documentary about his life as an undocumented immigrant, which he made after he wrote his New York Times...
- 7/22/2015
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
By Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
The 17th annual Savannah Film Festival kicks off on Saturday and runs through Nov. 1 — and, starting this year, its organizers want you to think of it as a major player in the awards season, generally, and specifically the fest for best documentary feature Oscar contenders, much like people associate the Palm Springs International Film Festival with best foreign language film Oscar contenders.
To that end, the fest is introducing a “Docs to Watch” sidebar, as part of which it will screen nine top docs: Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas‘ Documented (CNN Films), John Maloof and Charlie Siskel‘s Finding Vivian Mayer (Sundance Selects), Alan Hicks‘ Keep on Keepin’ On (RADiUS-twc), Oscar nominee Steve James‘ Life Itself (Magnolia), James Keach‘s Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me (Area 23a), Oscar nominee Robert Kenner‘s Merchants of Doubt (Sony Classics), Gabe Polsky‘s Red Army...
The Hollywood Reporter
The 17th annual Savannah Film Festival kicks off on Saturday and runs through Nov. 1 — and, starting this year, its organizers want you to think of it as a major player in the awards season, generally, and specifically the fest for best documentary feature Oscar contenders, much like people associate the Palm Springs International Film Festival with best foreign language film Oscar contenders.
To that end, the fest is introducing a “Docs to Watch” sidebar, as part of which it will screen nine top docs: Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas‘ Documented (CNN Films), John Maloof and Charlie Siskel‘s Finding Vivian Mayer (Sundance Selects), Alan Hicks‘ Keep on Keepin’ On (RADiUS-twc), Oscar nominee Steve James‘ Life Itself (Magnolia), James Keach‘s Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me (Area 23a), Oscar nominee Robert Kenner‘s Merchants of Doubt (Sony Classics), Gabe Polsky‘s Red Army...
- 10/26/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
The 17th annual Savannah Film Festival kicks off on Saturday and runs through Nov. 1 — and, starting this year, its organizers want you to think of it as a major player in the awards season, generally, and specifically the fest for best documentary feature Oscar contenders, much like people associate the Palm Springs International Film Festival with best foreign language film Oscar contenders. To that end, the fest is introducing a "Docs to Watch" sidebar, as part of which it will screen eight top docs: Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas' Documented (CNN Films), John Maloof and Charlie Siskel's
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- 10/24/2014
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
Last week, I had lunch in New York with Jose Antonio Vargas, the undocumented immigrant who is a leader in the fight for immigration reform in America, and whose recent documentary feature Documented, which debuted on iTunes and other digital platforms Tuesday, could factor into this year’s Oscar race. Even if you haven’t yet seen the film, which received a brief Oscar-qualifying theatrical run and aired several times over the summer on CNN, you’ve probably heard of Vargas, a prominent journalist who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2008, outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in The New York Times Magazine in 2011 and appeared on the cover of Time magazine in June 2012. Documented, Vargas’ debut as a film producer and director, shows what led him to make that decision and how it has impacted his life ever since. He and I spoke...
The Hollywood Reporter
Last week, I had lunch in New York with Jose Antonio Vargas, the undocumented immigrant who is a leader in the fight for immigration reform in America, and whose recent documentary feature Documented, which debuted on iTunes and other digital platforms Tuesday, could factor into this year’s Oscar race. Even if you haven’t yet seen the film, which received a brief Oscar-qualifying theatrical run and aired several times over the summer on CNN, you’ve probably heard of Vargas, a prominent journalist who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2008, outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in The New York Times Magazine in 2011 and appeared on the cover of Time magazine in June 2012. Documented, Vargas’ debut as a film producer and director, shows what led him to make that decision and how it has impacted his life ever since. He and I spoke...
- 10/8/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
Last week, I had lunch in New York with Jose Antonio Vargas, the undocumented immigrant who is a leader in the fight for immigration reform in America and whose recent documentary feature, Documented, which debuted on iTunes and other digital platforms Tuesday, could factor into this year's Oscar race. Even if you haven't yet seen the film, which received a brief Oscar-qualifying theatrical run and aired several times over the summer on CNN, you've probably heard of Vargas, a prominent journalist who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2008, outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in The New York
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- 10/5/2014
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
2014 has featured an impressive number of deeply moving and inspirational documentaries. There’s been Life Itself, Steve James‘ remembrance of the dearly departed film critic Roger Ebert; Keep on Keepin’ On, Alex Hicks‘ chronicle of an old man and a young man helping one another; Documented, Jose Antonio Vargas‘ portrait of the undocumented immigrant experience in 21st century America; Ben Cotner and Ryan White‘s The Case Against 8, which takes one into the center of the gay marriage debate; and the list goes on. But, in terms of sheer tears-inducement, I’m not sure any can match James Keach‘s Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, a gut-punching look at what Alzheimer’s Disease has done to the titular music legend — and the remarkable way in which the 78-year-old and his loved ones have conducted their lives since his diagnosis in 2011.
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The Hollywood Reporter
2014 has featured an impressive number of deeply moving and inspirational documentaries. There’s been Life Itself, Steve James‘ remembrance of the dearly departed film critic Roger Ebert; Keep on Keepin’ On, Alex Hicks‘ chronicle of an old man and a young man helping one another; Documented, Jose Antonio Vargas‘ portrait of the undocumented immigrant experience in 21st century America; Ben Cotner and Ryan White‘s The Case Against 8, which takes one into the center of the gay marriage debate; and the list goes on. But, in terms of sheer tears-inducement, I’m not sure any can match James Keach‘s Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, a gut-punching look at what Alzheimer’s Disease has done to the titular music legend — and the remarkable way in which the 78-year-old and his loved ones have conducted their lives since his diagnosis in 2011.
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- 10/5/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
2014 has featured an impressive number of deeply moving and inspirational documentaries. There's been Life Itself, Steve James' remembrance of the dearly departed film critic Roger Ebert; Keep on Keepin' On, Alex Hicks' chronicle of an old man and a young man helping one another; Documented, Jose Antonio Vargas' portrait of the undocumented immigrant experience in 21st century America; Ben Cotner and Ryan White's The Case Against 8, which takes one into the center of the gay marriage debate; and the list goes on. But, in terms of sheer tears-inducement, I'm not sure any can match James Keach's Glen
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- 9/25/2014
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jose Antonio Vargas has been detained by border patrol in McAllen, Texas — just as he suspected might happen. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and documentarian, Vargas announced that he was an undocumented immigrant in a famous 2011 essay in the NY Times, and has since become a passionate advocate for immigration reform and refugees’ rights. Also read: Obama Heckled in San Francisco on Immigration Policies Vargas, whose documentary “Documented” aired on CNN in June, traveled down to the Texas border to report on and advocate for the thousands of children who had crossed into the United States only to be detained. Here's a photo.
- 7/15/2014
- by Jordan Zakarin
- The Wrap
During Sunday's broadcast of CNN's film “Documented,” a documentary about the struggles of undocumented journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, the network sent out a tweet asking viewers to decide if he should be deported. “Do you think Jose should be deported? Answer with Josestay or Josego using #Documented,” CNN's Twitter account said. Also read: Weather Channel Apologizes for Sending ‘Bullying’ Tweet To Fort Worth City Councilman Several Twitter users questioned whether the network was being too blithe in having viewers decide Vargas's fate. “This is outrageous,” tweeted Natalie Baur, a Miami resident. “This isn't some soulless reality show. It's someone's life.
- 6/30/2014
- by James Crugnale
- The Wrap
The issue of illegal immigrants or, as this film would pointedly have it, undocumented Americans, is given a very human face in Jose Antonio Vargas’ documentary about his own undocumented status despite living in this country for twenty years and forging a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism career. Co-directed by Ann Lupo, Documented is advocacy filmmaking that also manages to succeed in pulling heartstrings. Sent by his mother to live with his U.S. citizen grandparents in California when he was twelve years old, the Philippines-born Vargas grew up without any knowledge that he was in fact here illegally,
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- 5/1/2014
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jose Antonio Vargas has just bared his soul to an audience in Queens and now he is basking in the afterglow. A crowd of dozens lingers in the lobby of the Museum of the Moving Image, swarming around him well after the closing credits of his film, Documented. The Filipino-American filmmaker smiles and laughs, shakes hands, poses for pictures, and tells his new friends to keep in touch on Facebook.
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It's no surprise that Documented — a deeply personal documentary about Vargas's life as an undocumented immigrant — elicits such a warm response. He created the film with the express purpose of swaying viewers, pa...
Read our film review of Documented
It's no surprise that Documented — a deeply personal documentary about Vargas's life as an undocumented immigrant — elicits such a warm response. He created the film with the express purpose of swaying viewers, pa...
- 4/30/2014
- Village Voice
With "dreamers" — people brought illegally to the United States as children — the proponents of immigration reform have found a winning word.
It fails, though, to capture the peculiar mess faced by those the term describes: They're Americans through and through, possibly "more American" culturally than many legal immigrants, yet they've got no legal standing.
Documented is the well-told story of Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who outed himself as undocumented, a situation he finds terrifying and exhausting. He grew up in California, brought by his legal-resident grandparents when he was 12.
They thought he'd get a menial job, get married, slip through. They never told him about his illegal status; he never told them h...
It fails, though, to capture the peculiar mess faced by those the term describes: They're Americans through and through, possibly "more American" culturally than many legal immigrants, yet they've got no legal standing.
Documented is the well-told story of Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who outed himself as undocumented, a situation he finds terrifying and exhausting. He grew up in California, brought by his legal-resident grandparents when he was 12.
They thought he'd get a menial job, get married, slip through. They never told him about his illegal status; he never told them h...
- 4/30/2014
- Village Voice
Immigration and citizenship in the United States is often presented in the media in black and white terms: you are either legal or illegal. And if you're in the latter category, the threat of deportation remains a constant fear, with 1100 people sent back to the native countries each day. However, for Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, his story is one that's more complicated, and speaks to the lives of many in the U.S. whose status is something more complex. Directed by Vargas and co-directed Ann Raffaela Lupo, "Documented" finds Vargas telling his own tale of being sent to America from the Philippines when he was twelve years old to live with his grandparents, staying the country where he went college, entered a career and journalism and more, all while keeping secret his true status. But after penning a column for the New York Times in 2011 outing himself as undocumented,...
- 4/29/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Jose Antonio Vargas' Documented will be released in select New York and Los Angeles theaters prior to its television broadcast on CNN, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. The move will qualify the film for Oscar consideration. The documentary -- which was written, produced and directed by the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist -- centers on Vargas' experience as an undocumented immigrant and a crusader for immigration reform. It will be released theatrically and digitally by his nonprofit Define American media and culture campaign, along with Bond/360, in New York at the Village East Cinema on May 2nd and in Los Angeles at the
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- 3/14/2014
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
From reportorial nonfiction to epic drama, from the couch to the art house, immigrants past and present will be at the forefront of 2014 film offerings -- not to mention your cable news network of choice. As the Congressional debate over immigration reform heats up and the midterm election gears begin to turn, here are four things to watch for: 1. If you don't already know the name Jose Antonio Vargas, you will. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker, and "creative disrupter," who came out as undocumented in The New York Times Magazine in 2011, is set to appear on a television near you in late spring or early summer -- after screenings around the country -- when his remarkably frank film "Documented" airs on CNN. Delicately woven from personal history and political conviction, it is the product of a reporter's ear, a cinephile's eye, and a memoirist's vulnerability. "It was very important to...
- 1/27/2014
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Drafthouse Films has picked up North American rights to Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math’s documentary The Final Member, while in a separate deal CNN Films has acquired Us broadcast rights to Documented.
The Final Member has screened at HotDocs, SilverDocs, Fantastic Fest and Doc NYC and centres on an Icelandic museum dedicated to the penis.
Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math mark their feature directorial debuts. Drafthouse Films brokered the deal with The Film Sales Company and plans a platform theatrical, VOD and partnered digital release with Vhx in 2014.
CNN Films has acquired Us broadcast rights to the immigration documentary Documented, about the Pulitzer Prize-winning Philippines-born journalist Jose Antonio Vargas.
The film will premiere on CNN in the second quarter of 2014 as a CNN Films broadcast following its international debut at the Idfa and theatrical distribution in the Us.
Vargas wrote and directed the film about his personal immigration story. Sean Parker, [link...
The Final Member has screened at HotDocs, SilverDocs, Fantastic Fest and Doc NYC and centres on an Icelandic museum dedicated to the penis.
Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math mark their feature directorial debuts. Drafthouse Films brokered the deal with The Film Sales Company and plans a platform theatrical, VOD and partnered digital release with Vhx in 2014.
CNN Films has acquired Us broadcast rights to the immigration documentary Documented, about the Pulitzer Prize-winning Philippines-born journalist Jose Antonio Vargas.
The film will premiere on CNN in the second quarter of 2014 as a CNN Films broadcast following its international debut at the Idfa and theatrical distribution in the Us.
Vargas wrote and directed the film about his personal immigration story. Sean Parker, [link...
- 11/19/2013
- ScreenDaily
The latest documentary acquisition for CNN Films is "Documented," a film about immigration co-directed by Ann Lupo and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, who "outed" himself as undocumented in his 2011 New York Times Magazine essay "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant." "Documented," which premiered at the AFI Docs Film Festival and is next headed to Idfa, follows Vargas as he travels around America telling his story in solidarity with the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants living here, a journey that prompts him to reconnect with his mother, who he hasn't seen since in 20 years, since she sent him to the U.S. from Philippines to live with relatives. "We have followed Jose's story closely since 2011 and are very pleased we will be able to offer U.S. viewers a window into the experiences of recent immigrants through his story. Jose also reports this story from a journalist's point of...
- 11/19/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
In advance of the 2013 International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (Idfa), CNN Films has acquired the U.S. broadcast rights to Documented, a feature-length film that explores the life – and journey out of the shadows – led by undocumented immigrant and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas, it was announced today. Documented will premiere on CNN/U.S. in the second quarter of 2014 as a CNN Films broadcast, following its international bow at the Idfa and its theatrical distribution in the United States. Documented is written and directed by Vargas, with technology entrepreneur Sean Parker, Matthew Hiltzik (“Paper Clips”), Scott Budnick (“The Hangover” series), and philanthropist Liz Simons as executive producers. “Immigration, to me, is not a political issue, it’s not a Latino or Asian issue – it’s an American story,” said writer-director Jose Antonio Vargas. “The film is in honor of 11 million undocumented immigrants – many of us Americans in all but papers.
- 11/19/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
CNN Films has acquired the U.S. broadcast rights to Jose Antonio Vargas' Documented, a feature-length film in which Vargas recounts his life as an undocumented immigrant and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. The deal was made in advance of the 2013 International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam. Documented will premiere on CNN in the second quarter of 2014 as a CNN Films broadcast, following its international bow at the Idfa and its theatrical distribution in the United States. Vargas wrote and directed the film, on which technology entrepreneur Sean Parker, Matthew Hiltzik, Scott Budnick and philanthropist Liz Simons served as
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- 11/19/2013
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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