Constructed entirely through 1980s network news and videotapes created by the Reagan administration itself, Velez and Pettengill’s prescient documentary presents Ronald Reagan as the first made-for-TV president—a man whose experience as a performer and public relations expert made him a unique match for an emerging modern political landscape, and for his chief rival: charismatic Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

As the new millennium began, one news story captured the attention and hearts of nearly every American. On Thanksgiving 1999, a young Cuban boy named Elián González was found floating in the Florida Straits by himself after his mother drowned trying to seek refuge in the United States. Before long, the 5-year-old González became the centerpiece of an intense custody battle between his father back in Cuba and his relatives in Miami, which, in turn, brought attention to the long-brewing tensions between Fidel Castro’s Cuba and the U.S. Throughout the news coverage, though, one voice was too young to join the heated international conversation: that of Elián himself. Eighteen years later, in the wake of Fidel Castro’s monumental death last November, ELIÁN lets the now 23-year-old tell his story, along with the other key players, of one of the biggest news events in modern times.

Executive produced by Alex Gibney, Tim Golden and Ross McDonnell use Elián’s intimate details as the jumping-off point for a powerfully relevant historical account.

Who killed Marsha P. Johnson? When the beloved, self-described “street queen” of NY’s Christopher Street was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992, the NYPD called her death a suicide. Protests erupted but the police remained impassive and refused to investigate. Now, twenty-five years on, Academy Award® nominated director and journalist David France (How to Survive a Plague) examines Marsh’s death—and her extraordinary life—in his new film.

Marsha arrived in the Village in the 1960s where she teamed up with Sylvia Rivera when both claimed their identities as “Drag Queens,” to use the vernacular of the times. Together, the radical duo fought arrests, condemned police brutality, organized street kids, battled the intolerant majority within the gay community, and helped spearhead the Stonewall Riots.

In 1970 they formed the world’s first trans-rights organization, STAR (Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries). Despite their many challenges over the years—bias, homelessness, illness—Marsha and Sylvia ignited a powerful and lasting civil rights movement for gender nonconforming people.

Now, a quarter century later, at a time of unprecedented visibility and escalating violence in the transgender community, a dynamic activist named Victoria Cruz has taken it upon herself to reexamine what happened at the end of Marsha’s Life. THE DEATH AND LIFE OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON follows as this champion pursues leads, mobilizes officials, and works to get to the bottom of Marsha’s death.

Newly restored for the first time since its debut, Jonathan Demme’s COUSIN BOBBY is ripe for rediscovery.

Jonathan Demme’s stirring 1992 documentary introduced audiences to his cousin Robert Castle, a fiercely political Episcopalian minister who fights tirelessly to improve the lives of people of color both in his Harlem parish and around the country. Though one might not expect an aging white man from New Jersey to be so deeply concerned with Black and Brown lives, Castle’s life took a turn when he formed long-lasting friendships with pivotal Black Panther Party leaders who helped wake him up to the deep racial injustices that have endured throughout in the history of the USA. As Demme documents Castle leading protests, ministering to his flock, and visiting locals in the community who have been the victim of inequality, a portrait develops of an inspiring role model for anyone who wants to stand up for racial injustice in the age of Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump, Standing Rock and more.

Blonde Death is co-presented with Found Footage Festival who will be providing exclusive content for the pre-show.

THE EYESLICER is a new punk rock variety TV show collecting America’s boldest short-form filmmaking into hourlong visual mixtapes that will mince your retinas into delicious ceviche.

Fresh off the show’s world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, join us for the first ever screening of three never-before-seen episodes of The Eyeslicer:

Episode 101: Paint Your Dreams at Night
Episode 103: Digital Sensations
Episode 104: School Spirit Plummets

Featuring talking toilets, tamagotchis, karaoke hits about the singularity, a live web stream of your own birth, a Faces of Death-inspired virginity experience, pilot lessons for the Washington Generals, overnight bus rides through Silicon Valley, faking sick to get high on the beach, police at a high school prom, the closing of Blockbuster video, rollerskating, love poetry, Facebook prostitution, mask-making, gymnastics, haunted high school yearbooks, parents getting turned into cats, and much, much more.

Plus, immediately following the screening two special guests will present a LIVE GENITAL HEALTH PRESENTATION.

Directed by Jack Dunphy, Augustine Frizzell, Leah Shore, Elizabeth Lo, Ornana, Zach Jones, Joanna Arnow, Bradley Bischoff, Sasha Gransjean, Ryan Weibush, Jillian Mayer & Lucas Levya, Garrett Bradley, Ben Wheele and C. Spencer Yeh, Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan, Harrison Atkins, Daniel Laabs, Christopher Radcliff, Kelly Sears, Colin Healey, Izzi Galindo, Jennifer Reeder, and The Eyeslicer.