EXCLUSIVE: In 2024, almost 80,000 people died of drug overdoses in the U.S., according to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. North of the border, the situation is just as alarming. In Canada in […]
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EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber is following up its Oscar win for Mr. Nobody Against Putin by acquiring another premium documentary – Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World. The distributor announced today it has […]
EXCLUSIVE: Watermelon Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to American Doctor, the award-winning documentary about three U.S. physicians who volunteered to treat grievously wounded Palestinian children in Gaza. Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Poh […]
EXCLUSIVE: It’s been a spell since Godspell debuted its Toronto production in 1972 with a cast of then-unknowns. In the interim, virtually every performer in that now legendary production went on to a huge career […]
EXCLUSIVE: For the grassroots activists in a new documentary, confronting Big Oil and environmental racism isn’t an idle pastime. It’s not a drill. It’s a matter of urgency involving the wellbeing of their communities and […]
The Miami Film Festival has announced its prize winners after wrapping the 43rd edition of the cinematic event in South Florida. On the Road (En El Camino), directed by David Pablos, won the festival’s top […]
EXCLUSIVE: 4/20 is a day marijuana enthusiasts celebrate what they consider to be the wonders of weed, but a new documentary takes issue with that narrative. The Documentary+ streaming platform is choosing the unofficial holiday […]
Cannes and Venice aren’t the only international film festivals with sun, sand, and stars. The Miami Film Festival, which concludes its 43rd edition tonight, also unspools in an oceanside setting. The event has become known […]
EXCLUSIVE: There are good dogs. There are very good dogs. And then there’s Zzaslow. The black Labrador, who was born in June 2005 at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, became the most decorated bomb-sniffing […]
Actor-director Ben McKenzie isn’t afraid to make a bold statement. For instance, when we meet up at a hotel in Miami to discuss his debut documentary, Everyone Is Lying to You for Money, he’s wearing […]
When actress Sonia Manzano goes out in public, bringing a hanky can be quite helpful. Fans tend to react to her with deep emotion. They know and love Manzano from Sesame Street, the show she […]
Ben McKenzie suspected there was something suspicious about crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried long before anyone else did. The actor known for Gotham and The O.C., who earned a degree in economics from the University of […]
For decade upon decade, many Cuban exiles have prayed for the downfall of the island’s communist government, established in the 1959 coup led by “comandante” Fidel Castro. Remarkably, among the foremost critics of Cuba’s single-party […]
Sunny Side of the Doc, the international documentary marketplace held in La Rochelle, France, has announced the first speakers for its upcoming 2026 edition. The 37th SSD, running June 22-24, will feature a keynote address […]
Millennium Docs Against Gravity, the world-class nonfiction film festival in Poland, has announced its main competition lineup, with the winner earning instant qualification for the Academy Awards. A dozen features will compete for the Grand […]
Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Bognar has joined labor-themed documentary Who Moves America as an executive producer ahead of the film’s upcoming appearances at the SFFILM Festival and the Austin Film Society’s Doc Days. The documentary screened […]
EXCLUSIVE: Abramorama has acquired North American theatrical distribution rights to American Agitators, a documentary exploring the life and legacy of community organizer Fred Ross Sr., who mentored some of the most impactful activists in American […]
The 21st annual South East European Film Festival (SEEfest) will open April 29 with Ioana Mischie’s feature debut Catane, a comedy-romance set in Romania described as “a modern-day fairytale, where hapless bureaucrats eventually find their […]
EXCLUSIVE: Hulu has acquired U.S. streaming rights to The Voice of Hind Rajab, director Kaouther Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated film based on the true story of a young Palestinian girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. […]
EXCLUSIVE: The DOXA Documentary Film Festival – Western Canada’s largest nonfiction film showcase – today announced the lineup for its 25th anniversary edition. The festival, running April 30-May 10 in Vancouver, will open with live […]
The U.S. had its Wright brothers, France its “Light” brothers. A few years before Orville and Wilbur piloted the first flight, Auguste and Louis Lumière (coincidentally, the French word for light) were innovating in a […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Florida Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 35th edition, a slate that includes two dozen world premieres and two special “An Evening With…” events, one featuring Paul Giamatti and another with […]
Writer-producer Ed Solomon squeezed in a quick trip to the west coast over the weekend before returning to work on his upcoming drama series The Spot, a Hulu project filming in Westchester, NY. He came […]
The 29th Sonoma International Film Festival wraps its 29th edition tonight after awarding prizes in multiple categories earlier today. Maspalomas, directed by Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi, won the Grand Jury Award for Best […]
“Watch what you eat” used to be a commonly heard expression, typically urged in the context of dieting. But the maxim applies in a different way in the documentary Fork in the Road, which made […]
EXCLUSIVE: Production is underway on Phillip Bloch AF: Always Fashionable, a documentary about stylist, fashion designer and author Phillip Bloch, the man who has famously styled Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Lopez, Will […]
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Sara Dosa’s acclaimed documentary Time and Water will open the upcoming Margaret Mead Film Festival, held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The 2026 edition of the prestigious […]
When filmmaker Hansen Lin opened the door to a building in the borough of Queens, New York, he didn’t realize he was entering a portal to the immigrant experience in America. Lin, producer of the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Documentary+, the nonfiction content streaming platform available around the world, has acquired global rights to culinary-themed Still Single. The documentary about “sushi superstar” Masaki Saito, owner of the namesake Michelin two-starred restaurant in Toronto, […]
The home of late Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami was heavily damaged in an overnight airstrike on Tehran, according to an independent film journalist on the ground in Iran’s capital. Mansour Jahani tells Deadline the strike […]
There’s money in potash. A lot of it. Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev earned vast sums by mining the substance, used as an agricultural fertilizer. The question for “Rybo” became what to do with all his […]
Filmmakers behind the award-winning drama-thriller Eagles of the Republic are demanding the immediate release of actor Hassan El Sayed, who is being held in Egypt on what they say are trumped up charges for participating […]
Whispers in May, Dongnan Chen’s film exploring the rite of passage of a 14-year-old girl in rural China, won the top award at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen Friday night, automatically qualifying the documentary for Oscar consideration. […]
Filmmaker Sara Dosa is going from the molten to the melting, from fiery volcanoes to dissolving glaciers. Dosa earned an Academy Award nomination for 2022’s Fire of Love, the story of vulcanologists Katia and Maurice […]
Like a flower that somehow emerges through concrete, love can blossom even in a space of unfathomable violence. That is the hopeful theme of Birds of War, the documentary directed by Janay Boulous and Abd […]
A sense of outrage compelled Oscar-nominated producer Poh Si Teng to make her directorial debut, the searing American Doctor, now screening at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. “I was very angry and then came despair,” she explained […]
A sense of imminence pervades Dream of Another Summer, Irene Bartolomé’s film that’s set in Beirut. A sense that something could happen at any moment, perhaps something terrible. Bartolomé, a native of Barcelona, has made […]
Closure, Michal Marczak’s searing account of a man desperately searching for his missing teenage son, won the Golden Alexander in International Competition today at the prestigious Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece. It’s the festival’s […]
The Miami Film Festival has set its lineup for the 43rd edition of the international cinematic event, running April 9-19 in the Sunshine State. This year’s festival will unveil 40 world premieres, two international premieres, […]
The 28th edition of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece comes to an end this weekend with Sunday’s awards ceremony, where the top prize of the Golden Alexander will be announced. Yorgos Krassakopoulos, head […]
EXCLUSIVE: Ominous clouds are gathering at SXSW and CPH:DOX – not necessarily in the skies, but certainly on the big screen. The Imax Documentary presentation Stormbound, about daring storm chaser Jeff Gammons, holds its world […]
EXCLUSIVE: ITVS’ Emmy-winning series Independent Lens has acquired U.S. broadcast rights to Ghost in the Machine, an essayistic expose of Artificial Intelligence directed by Valerie Veatch. The film, which premiered at Sundance, will have a […]
“I like taking risks. I love going into adventures,” Oscar winner Juliette Binoche observes. “Taking risks is part of being an artist.” In 2007, the French actress embarked on one of the riskiest endeavors of […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, NC has announced its 2026 lineup, a slate with more than a dozen world premieres as well as award-winning films from around the world. The cinematic […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance award-winning One in a Million, a longitudinal film about a Syrian girl caught between life as a refugee in Germany and memories of her homeland, has just made its European premiere at […]
The International Documentary Association has added four members to its board, bringing the total of distinguished figures serving in that capacity to 17. The new members announced Wednesday include Jonathan Gray, attorney and producer; Susan […]
By the time he reached his golden years, Roy Blakey had amassed the world’s foremost collection of ice show memorabilia, a trove valued in the millions of dollars. But he wasn’t just a collector – […]