Film News Roundup: Exam Documentary ‘The Test and the Art of Thinking’ Gets Release (Exclusive)

Sat documentary “The Test & The Art of Thinking” gets sold, Sean Baker becomes an artist-in-residence at the New School and “Juliet, Naked” gets a release date.Rights DealAbramorama has acquired worldwide rights to “The Test & The Art of Thinking,” the documentary feature directed by Michael Arlen Davis and produced by Davis and Jyll Johnstone .The film explores the debate over the Sat and Act college entrance exams.

Davis interviews students, parents, counselors, test-prep professionals, and academics to focus on this uniquely American rite of passage and how it reflects deeper issues.“The Test & The Art of Thinking” will open on April 27 in New York at the Landmark at 57 West and on May 4 in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Music Hall.

A national release in select cities across the U.S.

will follow.“We spent three years researching this controversial subject, assessing its broad reach and impact, while meeting and

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