ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (Laura Poitras 2022)

Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice, this documentary is an epic collaboration with noted snapshot aesthetic photographer Nan Goldin that depicts her life, her art, and her campaign against the Sackler family whose Purdue Pharma produced OcyContin, the forerunner of the opioid epidemic and to which she was at one time addicted. Her organization P.A.I.N.Sackler staged a series of museum happenings aimed at stopping public art spaces from accepting donations from the Sackler family or displaying the Sackler name. They have had success. Was Centerpiece Film of the 60th NYFF Oct. 3. Now in limited US theatrical release.