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MTV Documentary Films Sets COVID-19 Docu Release Date – Deadline
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…
MTV Documentary Films acquires SA’s award-winning film ‘My Father the Mover’
Through Entertainment reporter October 27, 2020Share this article:To shareTweeterTo shareTo shareTo shareE-mailTo shareDirected by Julia Jansch, "My Father The Mover," won the award for best documentary short at the Tribeca Film Festival,!--sse-->!-->!-->!-->…
Countdown to Election Day with 14 must-see documentaries – BillMoyers.com
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,…
MTV Documentary Films Acquires 76 Days Of COVID Outbreak In Wuhan, China – Deadline
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 Announces AMERICAN SELFIE Premiere
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 Announces Alexandra Pelosi’s AMERICAN SELFIE Premiere
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…
National Geographic Documentary Films sets Ron Howard’s Rebuilding Paradise ad-free release…
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 /…
Best Political Documentaries To Watch Online
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…
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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…
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart’TheWrap
HBO Documentary Films has acquired the North American rights to âThe Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,â a documentary about disco icons directed by Frank Marshall.
âHow…
Breaking News – Showtime (R) Documentary Films Announces “Citizen Bio” a Timely…
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…
Boone Docs Shines the Spotlight on Independent Documentaries – The Appalachian
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…
The Prison Within: In a moving documentary on restorative justice | Documentary films
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…
Realscreen “Archive” Nat Geo Documentary Films directs “The Last Ice”,…
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…
National Geographic Documentary Films Announces the Last Ice in National Geographic Pristine Seas
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…
National Geographic Documentary Films to release Oscar-winning director Ron Howard’s…
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…
National Geographic Documentary Films to release Oscar-winning director Ron Howard’s…
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…
Disclosure: Behind Laverne Cox’s Netflix Documentary About Trans Portrayal | Documentary…
In June 2014, Time magazine featured Laverne Cox, Netflix's Orange is the New Black star, on a blanket who proclaimed America's âTransgender Tipping Pointâ. Cox, a black transgender actor, was at the…
Documentary films by SocDoc graduates of UCSC will be screened online from June 15 to August 31
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…
Realscreen “Archives” “St. Louis Superman” Debuts on TV
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…
10 best documentary films on Netflix right now
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!-->…
3 great documentaries to watch in honor of Earth Day
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…
Netflix releases 10 documentary films and series for free on YouTube
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…
Realscreen » Archive » Nat Geo Documentary Films covers “Saudi Runaway” by Susanne Regina Meures
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…
National Geographic Documentary Films teams up with director Max Lowe, producer Chris Murphy and…
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,…
Why The New York Times Is Getting Into The Documentary Film Business
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…
A Midnight Traveler’s Review – The Captivating Refugee Escape From Afghanistan | Documentary…
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…
Realscreen »Archive» Westdoc Online presents Sheila Nevins of MTV Documentary Films
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…
‘St. Louis Superman ‘is Oscar’s first name for MTV documentary films
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…
‘Love Fraud’, ‘The Kingmaker’ among Showtime documentaries
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…
Documentary films need more funding | Movie
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…
Netflix, Amazon, Hulu are changing the world of documentary films
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…
Feast on documentary films | Nepali time
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…
MTV Documentary Films’ Sheila Nevins Sets Three New Projects – Deadline
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…
Midnight Traveler: a powerful documentary on refugees filmed on a phone | Documentary films
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 Acquires ‘Gay Chorus Deep South’, Set for Fall Release –…
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…
National Geographic Documentary Films Go Shorts
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…
MTV Documentary Films Reveals Sheila Nevins’ First Oscar Qualifiers
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…
National Geographic Documentary Films Announces “The Cave”
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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…
HotDocs Festival 2019: Portraits of Conflict and Excellent Compassion | Documentary films
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…
National Geographic Documentary Films announces feature-length documentary about Thai cave rescue…
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.…
Streaming: next stop Docsville | Documentary films
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…
The film that reveals the traumatic secret of an island idyll | Documentary films
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,…
National Geographic Documentary Films partners with more than 1,700 schools nationwide to screen…
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…
Shirkers: a mystery film in the making for 25 years | Documentary films
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…
Beyond The Cove: What Happened After The Oscar-Winning Documentary? | Documentary films
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…
With Go90 Gone, Vice teams up with RYOT on documentary films
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…
HBO Documentary Films and IFP Launch Fundraising Initiative
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…
Revue América – moving portrait of the love of grandsons for their grandmother | Documentary films
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…
The club brings documentary films to campus
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…
Gael Garcia Bernal on Mexico’s plan for documentary films
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…
National Geographic Documentary Films Acquires 2017 Tribeca Film Festival’s From the Ashes…
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…
Vice launches documentary film division
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…
DOK Leipzig, a festival that mixes animated films and documentaries
(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…