American Cinematheque’s This Is Not A Fiction Competition is returning for its second season.
The competition launched final 12 months with screenings of Thank You, Good Evening: The Bon Jovi Story, that includes a Jon Bon Jovi Q&A and Morgan Neville’s Steve! (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Items.
It’s now returning with a slew of recent premieres, screenings and appearances from the likes of Conan O’Brien, Survivor’s Jeff Probst, Errol Morris and Documentary Now!’s Invoice Hader and Fred Armisen.
The second season premiere of Max’s Conan O’Brien Should Go will kick off the occasion on April 9 with a Q&A with the Oscars host.
The occasion, which runs by April 17, can even function a tenth anniversary screening of IFC’s Documentary Now! and Probst is internet hosting Tribute to Survivor: An Night with Jeff Probst.
Morris shall be honored with a retrospective that features Gates of Heaven, Vernon, Florida, The Skinny Blue Line, A Temporary Historical past of Time, Quick, Low cost & Out of Management and his newest Netflix doc Chaos: The Manson Murders. Kazuo Hara can even obtain his first ever Los Angeles retrospective that includes his early movies Goodbye CP, Excessive Non-public Eros: Love Tune 1974 and the west coast premiere of Minamata Mandala.
Morris and Hara can even seem collectively for a dialog following a screening of The Emperor’s Bare Military Marches On launched by Invoice Hader on April 12.
The occasion takes place at AC’s Aero, Egyptian and Los Feliz 3 theaters.
Different screenings and premieres together with I Know Catherine, The Log Girl, Rodney Ascher’s Ghost Boy, Quantity One on The Name Sheet, Street Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Road Band and Sly Lives!.
The third season of HBO’s 100 Foot Wave will shut out the competition.
American Cinematheque Senior Movie Programmer Chris LeMaire stated, “We couldn’t be extra thrilled to have two legends of documentary filmmaking—Errol Morris and Kazuo Hara—on the town on the identical time for our centerpiece retrospectives. All through their careers, these filmmakers have expanded our understanding of what the documentary artform might be, and will probably be an extremely particular alternative for our viewers to listen to them in dialog to debate Hara’s 1987 The Emperor’s Bare Military Marches On, a unprecedented movie that options a number of the most unbelievable moments ever captured.”
“We’re very happy with this 12 months’s lineup which continues on the thrilling observe we laid final 12 months by taking a look at nonfiction filmmaking from an ever-expanding view, that includes not solely the pantheon of basic documentaries and cutting-edge modern work, but additionally all the things from stay tv sports activities protection, actuality TV, travelogues, playful mockumentary kind and extra,” added Cindy Flores, Programmer, American Cinematheque.
Tickets are out there right here.
This Is Not A Fiction 2025 Lineup:
AERO THEATRE
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 7:30pm
CONAN O’BRIEN MUST GO
Opening Evening of ‘That is Not A Fiction’ 2025!
World Premiere of Season 2
Visitor(s): Q&A with host Conan O’Brien
AERO THEATRE
Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 7:30pm
GHOST BOY
West Coast Premiere!
Co-presented by Past Fest
Visitor(s): Q&A with filmmaker Rodney Ascher
LOS FELIZ 3
Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 7:00pm
PAVEMENTS
Visitor(s): Q&A with actor Tim Heidecker
LOS FELIZ 3
Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 10:00pm
EIGHT POSTCARDS FROM UTOPIA / SLEEP #2
West Coast Premieres!
LOS FELIZ 3
Friday, April 11, 2025 at 7:00pm
MIDDLETOWN
L.A. Premiere!
Visitor(s): Q&A with filmmakers Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss
AERO THEATRE
Friday, April 11, 2025 at 7:30pm
GATES OF HEAVEN / VERNON, FLORIDA
GATES OF HEAVEN print courtesy of the Academy Movie Archive
Visitor(s): Q&A with filmmaker Errol Morris
LOS FELIZ 3
Friday, April 11, 2025 at 10:00pm
FIRE OF WIND
West Coast Premiere!
EGYPTIAN THEATRE
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 11:00am
THE BEAR
LOS FELIZ 3
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 12:00pm
FAST, CHEAP & OUT OF CONTROL
Visitor(s): Q&A with filmmaker Errol Morris
AERO THEATRE
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 12:30pm
SLY LIVES! (AKA THE BURDEN OF BLACK GENIUS)
Visitor(s): Q&A with producer Joseph Patel
EGYPTIAN THEATRE
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 3:00pm
THE EMPEROR’S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON
Visitor(s): Introduction by Invoice Hader. Q&A with filmmaker Kazuo Hara. Moderated by Errol Morris.
LOS FELIZ 3
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 3:00pm
This Is Not a Fiction 2025 Shorts Program
Movies embody: Film and Sound, Gentle, Defend me from Oblivion, Questions for Reminiscences, Lizzy, Marine Layer, ZØØ, What I Needed to Depart Behind, A Hand to Maintain, and Contemplating Cats
AERO THEATRE
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 4:00pm
ROAD DIARY: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND
Visitor(s): Q&A with filmmaker Thom Zimny
LOS FELIZ 3
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 6:00pm
HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT
Advance Screening
Visitor(s): Q&A with filmmaker Alexander Horwath
EGYPTIAN THEATRE
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 7:00pm
THE THIN BLUE LINE / A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
THIN BLUE LINE print courtesy of the Academy Movie Archive
Visitor(s): Q&A with filmmaker Errol Morris
LOS FELIZ 3
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 10:00pm
“Heavy Metallic Parking Lot” / HATED: GG ALLIN & THE MURDER JUNKIES
Co-presented by Cinematic Void
LOS FELIZ 3
Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 11:00am
WINTER SOLDIER
World Premiere of 4K Restoration!
EGYPTIAN THEATRE
Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 1:00pm
NFL FILMS: A Documentary Dynasty
Visitor(s): That includes a panel of shock company
LOS FELIZ 3
Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 1:00pm
Errol Morris Presents PSYCHO
Sunday Print Version Collection
Visitor(s): Introduction by filmmaker Errol Morris
AERO THEATRE
Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 3:00pm
KOYAANISQATSI
EGYPTIAN THEATRE
Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 4:00pm
CHAOS: THE MANSON MURDERSVisitor(s): Q&A with filmmaker Errol Morris
LOS FELIZ 3
Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 4:00pm
MINAMATA MANDALA
West Coast Premiere
Visitor(s): Q&A with filmmaker Kazuo Hara
AERO THEATRE
Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 7:00pm
Tribute to SURVIVOR: An Night with Jeff Probst
Visitor(s): Panel dialogue with host Jeff Probst and shock company
EGYPTIAN THEATRE
Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 7:30pm
DOCUMENTARY NOW!
tenth Anniversary!
Visitor(s): Panel with creators, actors and writers Invoice Hader and Fred Armisen, creator and director Rhys Thomas, director Alex Buono and author Micah Gardner
LOS FELIZ 3
Monday, April 14, 2025 at 7:00pm
GOODBYE CP
Visitor(s): Q&A with filmmaker Kazuo Hara
AERO THEATRE
Monday, April 14, 2025 at 7:30pm
NUMBER ONE ON THE CALL SHEET: PART ONE
Visitor(s): Q&A with director Reginald Hudlin
LOS FELIZ 3
Monday, April 14, 2025 at 10:00pm
A.Ok.
LOS FELIZ 3
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 7:00pm
EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974
Visitor(s): Q&A filmmaker Kazuo Hara
AERO THEATRE
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 7:30pm
NUMBER ONE ON THE CALL SHEET: PART TWO
Visitor(s): Q&A with director Shola Lynch
LOS FELIZ 3
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:00pm
MEN OF WAR
L.A. Premiere!
LOS FELIZ 3
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 7:00pm
PREDATORS
West Coast Premiere
Visitor(s): Q&A with filmmaker David Osit
AERO THEATRE
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 7:30pm
KILLER OF SHEEP
L.A. Premiere of New 4K Restoration
Co-presented by UCLA Movie & Tv Archive
“Killer of Sheep” has been digitally restored to 4K and remastered by UCLA Movie & Tv Archive, Milestone Movies, and the Criterion Assortment. Restoration supervised by Ross Lipman and Jillian Borders in session with Charles Burnett.
Visitor(s): Introduction by archivist Jill Borders. Q&A with filmmaker Charles Burnett.
LOS FELIZ 3
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 10:00pm
LITTLE, BIG, AND FAR
L.A. Premiere
AERO THEATRE
Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 7:00pm
100 FOOT WAVE
L.A. Premiere of season 3
EGYPTIAN THEATRE
Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 7:00pm
I KNOW CATHERINE, THE LOG LADY
L.A. Premiere
Visitor(s): Q&A with filmmaker Richard Inexperienced, Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost, producer Sabrina Sutherland
LOS FELIZ 3
Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 7:00pm
JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE
West Coast Premiere
Visitor(s): Q&A with filmmaker Michael Almereyda and producer Courtney Stephens
LOS FELIZ 3
Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 10:00pm
AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE
Advance Screening
