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Netflix Lands Four Festival Docs Including ‘Free Leonard Peltier,’ ‘Teenaged Wasteland’ (Exclusive)
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Netflix Lands Four Festival Docs Including ‘Free Leonard Peltier,’ ‘Teenaged Wasteland’ (Exclusive)

The Hollywood Reporter·Mia Galuppo·18 days ago
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Netflix has acquired four documentaries that were highlights of the festival circuit, from Sundance to Telluride to Tribeca . Free Leonard Peltier , Teenaged Wasteland, The Bend in the River and Room to Move have all been picked up by the streamer, with Adam Del Deo, Netflix’s vp, documentaries, saying, “It’s a privilege to give them a home on Netflix so audiences can keep discovering and loving great works like these.” Free Leonard Peltier , which will stream on Netflix starting Oct. 12, tells the story of Peltier, a young leader of the American Indian Movement in the 1970s, who was convicted of a brutal crime based on falsified evidence. The film from Jesse Short Bull and David France also tracks the decades-long efforts to secure the release of Peltier from prison. Boys State team Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss are behind Teenaged Wasteland, which revisits the story of a group of teenagers in upstate New York, who in the early 1990s make a film that uncovers a conspiracy that is poisoning their community.…

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