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EXCLUSIVE: MTV Documentary Films to Release COVID-19 Documentary 76 days in more than 50 virtual theaters nationwide, including the Film Forum in New York and the Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles starting December 4. Directed by Hao…

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Dale Ho from THE FIGHT, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.In this world full of fake news, it's heartwarming to know that there is at least one art form you can count on for the truth. By its very nature,…

EXCLUSIVE: MTV Documentary Films has acquired the North American rights to 76 days, a raw and emotional look at the struggles of the people of Wuhan, China, in the early days of the COVID-19 epidemic. Directed by New York filmmaker…

Showtime Documentary Films today announced the premiere of acclaimed director Alexandra Pelosi's new film AMERICAN SELFIE: ONE NATION SHOOTS ITSELF on Friday, October 23 at 9 p.m. ET / PT. A journey through the visceral country during one…

Showtime Documentary Films today announced the premiere of acclaimed filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi's new film. AMERICAN SELFIE: A NATION SHOOTS ITSELFF Friday, Oct. 23 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. A visceral journey across the country in one of the…

WASHINGTON--(COMMERCIAL THREAD) - National Geographic Documentary Films today announced the first ad-free release of Rebuild paradise, from director Ron Howard and Imagine Documentaries on National Geographic, Sunday, Nov.8 at 9 /…

With the 2020 presidential election fast approaching, the next few weeks are going to be crucial for President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. The first presidential debate is scheduled for September 29, where…

HBO Documentary Films Acquires North American Rights to Feature Documentary The Bee Gees: How to mend a broken heart by Oscar nominated director Frank Marshall. The 111-minute film, which was an…

HBO Documentary Films has acquired the North American rights to “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” a documentary about disco icons directed by Frank Marshall. “How…

Showtime (R) Documentary Films Announces "Citizen Bio", a Timely Documentary Exploring the Biohacking MovementThe film explores in depth the nascent biohacking movement and the unconventional scientists and…

Mickey hutchingsThe Appalachian Theater on King Street. The theater has been a historical landmark in Boone for decades. Indie films and documentaries will take center stage in Boone Docs, a year-round film series presented by the…

TRoy Williams was on guard when Katherin Hervey went to San Quentin State Prison, where he was serving a life sentence for kidnapping and theft. The director was there to record the inmates for what would become the restorative justice…

National Geographic Documentary Films presents two feature film projects this fall, The last ice cream and Blood on the wall. The last ice cream (photo) tells the story of Inuit communities in Canada…

WASHINGTON--(COMMERCIAL THREAD) - Scientific projections predict the total disappearance of summer ice in the Arctic - the critical cooling system of our planet - by 2040. THE LAST ICE tells the story of Inuit communities who…

WASHINGTON--(COMMERCIAL THREAD) - Following a hugely successful virtual premiere attended by nearly 6,000 people, National Geographic Documentary Films today announced that it will move forward with its release plans for…

WASHINGTON--(COMMERCIAL THREAD) - National Geographic Documentary Films today announced the release of REBUILDING THE PARADISE by Oscar-winning director Ron Howard and Imagine Documentaries in select theaters (physical and…

In June 2014, Time magazine featured Laverne Cox, Netflix's Orange is the New Black star, on a blanket who proclaimed America's “Transgender Tipping Point”. Cox, a black transgender actor, was at the…

UC Santa Cruz will premiere thesis films of nine MFA graduate students in the area of ​​social literature this year – during a special online presentation from June 15 to August 31. The documentaries to be screened are the culmination of…

MTV Documentary Films Oscar nominated film Saint Louis Superman will premiere on May 18 on the MTV, VH1 and MTV2 networks owned by ViacomCBS. Saint Louis Superman tells the story of Representative Bruce…

As the world sits at home and what seems like a single piece of information these days, society yearns for something to think about and discuss. There's only so much more to discuss about supermarkets, scrabble and social!-->…

This year's Earth Day celebration is quite different from past Earth Days, as coronavirus social distancing measures make outdoor gatherings impossible. Luckily, there are several channels showing documentaries in the US that…

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Netflix has unlocked a selection of educational documentary films and series - now available for free on YouTube - saying it's a way to help teachers and students during the COVID-19 quarantine. The 10 titles include Ava DuVernay's…

National Geographic Documentary Films has acquired worldwide rights to Susanne Regina Meures' second feature documentary Saudi fugue after its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The…

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On the heels of an Oscar® nomination for the critically acclaimed film The caveNational Geographic Documentary Films today announced a new feature documentary, Torn (wt), in partnership with Lightbox,…

Lance Oppenheim had no intention of making an 83-minute documentary when he began chronicling a group of seniors living in a retirement community in central Florida. But after 18 months and hundreds of hours of footage, he's…

AAt the end of last year, I was complaining that some documentaries were starting to look skimpy and unimportant. Well, here's something to prove me wrong. Life in times of war is the theme of this captivating film journal by Afghan…

real screen is partnering with filmmaker and executive producer Chuck Braverman and his video series Westdoc Online, to bring his interviews with acclaimed documentary makers and personalities in the…

Never underestimate the power of an Oscar nomination for a documentary short. MTV Documentary Films chief Sheila Nevins celebrated Monday morning as her fledgling unit landed an Oscar mention for "St. Louis Superman," the first…

Showtime's upcoming slate of documentaries includes "Kingdom of Silence," "The Kingmaker," "The Longest War" and "Love Fraud," "The Trade," the premium cable company announced Monday. "The Kingmaker," which comes from Lauren…

As the founder of one of the few UK companies specializing in the making and distribution of independent film documentaries, I read with interest that Peter Bradshaw (Opinion, theguardian.com, December 27) is unhappy with the state of…

It's the best of times and, arguably, the trickiest of times when it comes to the documentary industry. There's no doubt that 2018 was a banner year for box office documentaries starring Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's…

Two films featured bamboo. That of Bangladesh, bamboo story, won the main trophy at the 2019 FSA. A multi-tiered ethnographic study using exceptional cinematography, the film offers empathy and respect for an unnoticed floating population…

Sheila Nevins, head of MTV Documentary Films, set up new projects from Alexandra Pelosi (Travel with George), Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (Tammy Faye's eyes) and Alexandra Shiva (How to Dance in Ohio). The new footage adds to the…

In 2015, Afghan filmmaker Hassan Fazili and his family – his wife and fellow filmmaker Fatima Hussaini and their young daughters, Nargis and Zahra – were short on time. They had fled Afghanistan for Tajikistan 14 months earlier after the…

MTV Documentary Films, a division of Viacom's MTV Studios, today announced its latest acquisition under Sheila Nevins: Gay Chorus Deep South. Directed by David Charles Rodrigues, the film had its world premiere at this year's Tribeca…

The Oscar-winning banner will release its first shorts this fall: refugee camp "Lost and Found" and shocking exhibit "The Nightcrawlers." After playing home Oscar-winning feature documentaries like recent winner “Free Solo” and other…

The Czar MTV Documentary FIlms is up and running. During her tenure at HBO, Sheila Nevins reigned atop the documentary pyramid for decades, adapting to increasing competition and new technologies. There's a competition for the best…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95QYDG4pAM National Geographic has announced details of a new feature-length documentary, The cave – a powerful new film about a secret underground hospital hidden in Syria and the unprecedented…

It's been a great year for North America's largest documentary festival, HotDocs, in Toronto. Unlike most documentary festivals, this one offers free daytime screenings for students and seniors, engaging audiences and setting the stage for…

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following the success of Free Solo, which won the Best Documentary Feature Oscar earlier this week, National Geographic Documentary Films announces the green light for its next feature film project.…

VSGiven the substantial chunk of the streaming sphere they consume, I wrote less about documentaries than I should have in 2018 - partly because my colleague Charlie Phillips had covered so much authority on the non-fiction side of things…

Five years ago, Gabrielle Brady, an Australian filmmaker, decided to visit an old friend who had moved to remote Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. Australia's tiny tropical territory was only settled a century ago, when the phosphate,…

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--National Geographic celebrates National Education Week in spectacular school fashion, hosting screenings of the critically acclaimed documentary SCIENCE FAIR for more than 1,700 schools across the…

Sthe hikers talk about a kidnapping. A strange abduction. The one in which the precious cargo taken hostage is not a person, but a film.The Sundance-winning documentary tells the story of Los Angeles-born, Singapore-born filmmaker Sandi…

Jhe 2009 documentary The Cove, which depicted the practice of circling and shooting dolphins in a small bay tinged with blood-purple, visited a puzzling past decade in the small Japanese town of Taiji.An outburst of international outrage…

Oath's immersive entertainment studio, RYOT, has partnered with Vice Studios to co-finance and co-produce a series of documentary films. The two-year, multimillion-dollar partnership came about after Verizon shut down Go90, for…

Exclusive: The new fund will “identify and nurture storytellers with new and compelling perspectives as they develop their work.” HBO and the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) today announced the IFP/HBO New True Stories funding…

Jhis moving feature debut documentary from American director duo Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside centers on three brothers in Colima, Mexico, whose lives revolve around their 93-year-old grandmother, América. Shot over a three-year period…

Four students from Ithaca College have come together to create "IC Docs", a club dedicated to the screening and discussion of documentary films. The club was founded in the fall of 2017 by four documentary studies…

The Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, now in its 12th edition, is helping the country come to terms with its own identity. The 2017 Oscars ceremony was a largely apolitical affair, but Gael Garcia Bernal changed that. Co-hosting the…

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the wake of President Trump's executive order to roll back Clean Power Plan regulations, Courteney Monroe, CEO of National Geographic Global Networks, today announced the acquisition of Ashesa…

The new division will produce feature documentaries and docuseries for various platforms. Continuing its efforts to create and tell compelling real-life stories, Vice Media announced the launch of Vice Documentary Films, a new division…

(Mis)understanding Animation "I don't really like animation," a documentary filmmaker told animator Alain Delannoy, director of the animated short The speech, which was screened at this year's festival. It's an empty statement that's made…