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EXCLUSIVE: Not Going Quietly, the award-winning documentary about progressive activist Ady Barkan and his battle with ALS, will begin streaming on Hulu this Friday. Nicholas Bruckman directed the film, which won the audience award and a special jury award at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival, earned three IDA Awards…

The documentary Not Going Quietly tells the story of Ady Barkan, the progressive and healthcare activist who has been battling ALS. As filmmakers publicize the project during award season and an upcoming PBS airing, Barkan has seized on his next chapter: a push for Congress to pass the Build Back Better Act, a…

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EXCLUSIVE: Vice News has acquired international distribution rights to Not Going Quietly, a documentary feature about activist Ady Barkan that screened at the 2021 SXSW and Tribeca film festivals. The movie is now available via Vice News outside of the U.S.. The film is currently on domestic theatrical release via…

Each day progressive activist Ady Barkan, who is battling the debilitating and incurable disease ALS, faces a difficult reality: "I got a lot to say and not a lot of time left to say it in." Barkan, 37, makes that observation in Not Going Quietly, the new documentary about his life and work that opens today in…

EXCLUSIVE: POV, PBS’ showcase of independent nonfiction films, has acquired Nicholas Bruckman’s Not Going Quietly and added the documentary to its season 34 lineup. Centered on disabled activist Ady Barkan, Not Going Quietly debuted at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival and won its Audience Award for Documentary Feature and…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to Nicholas Bruckman’s Not Going Quietly, with plans to release the film in theaters on August 13. The documentary, which won the Audience Award and Special Jury Recognition for Humanity in Social Action at SXSW, offers an intimate and…

The 28th SXSW Film Festival revealed the Audience Award winners Tuesday, with Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free, The Fallout and Not Going Quietly among the list of honorees. The news comes after the online edition of the fest announced its jury awards. The Mary Wharton-directed docu Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free…

EXCLUSIVE: Progressive activist Ady Barkan's political group is known as "Be a Hero." It's a motto he lives by, to judge from the documentary Not Going Quietly, which is making its world premiere in competition at the SXSW Film Festival. At age 32 the Yale Law School-educated public interest attorney was diagnosed…