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'THE SANDBOX Premieres at CPH:DOX to Rave Reviews' core news picture

THE SANDBOX Premieres at CPH:DOX to Rave Reviews

Kenya-Jade Pinto‘s film THE SANDBOX, which goes inside “a global black box of migration, surveillance and control', premiered in the main competition at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen on March 17 to a 4-star review in Variety. Scored by Core composer ROBBIE TEEHAN, the film takes us inside cutting-edge technology, including artificial intelligence and its role in surveillance, power politics and border control amid discussions about migration. The film will also screen at HotDocs in April. 

Read more about the film in The Hollywood Reporter. Read the review in Variety.

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CEREMONY Wins SXSW Audience Award

Big congratulations to CEREMONY for winning the SXSW audience award in the Documentary Spotlight section of the SXSW Film & TV Festival. 

Scored by Core composer JESSE ZUBOT, Nuxalk filmmaker Banchi Hanuse's documentary traces the vanished ooligan run, uncovering a buried history of erasure and the quiet revolution of a Nation that refuses to disappear. 

Read more about it in Playback.

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YUNAN coming to theatres in January 2026.

Directed by Ameer Fakher Eldin and scored by Core composer SUAD BUSHNAQ, Yunan tells the story of an exiled Syrian author who travels to a remote island in the North Sea to commit suicide. There he stays at a modest hotel run by a devoted elderly woman whose quiet humanity incites a reawakening of his desires and instincts for life.

Nominated for a 2025 Golden Berlin Bear award at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. Watch the trailer here.

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AMERICAN DOCTOR to Premiere at 2026 Sundance Film Festival

From award-winning Director Poh Si Teng, and scored by Core Composer SUAD BUSHNAQ, this vérité documentary, follows three American physicians—Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—whose medical mission in Gaza transforms them into witnesses. 

Read the Sundance Announcement here.


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Game Theory Films Picks Up Alberta Number One

The docufiction hybrid by Alexander Carson will mark it's Canadian release on November 15, 2025. Scored by Core composer JOSEPH MURRAY, Alberta Number One follows an eccentric documentary crew traversing Alberta to document its monuments, museums and roadside curios, as their vague project brief about exploring questions of cultural authority and identity gives way to unexpected reckonings with their own lives and relationships.

The Film premiered last year at Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal and went on to the Chicago International Film Festival.