HBO Documentary Films Acquires Laura Poitras Oscar Contender ‘All The Beauty And The Bloodshed’ Ahead Of TIFF North American Premiere
deadline.comHBO Documentary Films has acquired U.S. television and streaming rights to Oscar winner Laura Poitras’s film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, fresh from its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and sneak preview at Telluride.The film about artist Nan Goldin and her crusade against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and its owners is an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival, with a debut screening set for Friday.
From TIFF, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed will head to the New York Film Festival, where it has been chosen as the centerpiece selection (Goldin is designing the festival’s 60th anniversary poster).
The Participant production has instantly leapt into the Oscar conversation, a spotlight familiar to Poitras after her 2015 Academy Award run with Citizenfour, her film on NSA contractor-turned whistleblower Edward Snowden.TIFF chief documentary programmer Thom Powers calls Poitras’s latest a “richly-layered film” that explores Goldin’s artistic oeuvre, family background, and activism focused on the opioid epidemic.“…Poitras started filming three years ago as Goldin was marshalling a protest against Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin,” Powers writes in the TIFF program. “For Goldin, the crusade is deeply personal because she became addicted soon after being prescribed the drug.
Her dependency lasted several years, and she narrowly escaped being one of the half million Americans who have died from opioid overdoses.
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