Neon has acquired global worldwide rights to Matt Wolf’s Sundance documentary Spaceship Earth, and has released it today across a footprint of traditional and non-traditional venues.
The film will play theatrically in participating drive-ins, and select pop-up city-scape projections (accessible by quarantined city…
The individual sitting across from me was a veteran filmmaker who was tormented by a tough decision. "The story I want to tell should be made as a doc, not a feature film," he told me. "But let's get real: Movies occupy center stage while documentaries sit in the balcony."
He ended up shooting a feature (more on that…
EXCLUSIVE:Topic is partnering with Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Roger Ross Williams and on a new program titled One Story Up, in which he will select one short film from an emerging talent per month for the next 12 months that will stream exclusively on the streaming platform.
The deal forged with Williams…
The contributions and personal sacrifices of people going above and beyond to support their communities during the COVID-19 crisis is the subject of a new Amazon Prime series.
Regular Heroes is the title of an eight-episode docuseries highlighting the everyday people who are making an impact. The series premieres on…
There will be no Olympics this summer, but Five Rings Films has announced its latest slate of documentaries on some of the biggest stars of the games.
Rulon Gardner Won’t Die bows on June 3 on OlympicChannel.com and the official Olympic Channel apps for mobile and connected TV devices.
After achieving one of the…
The Peabody Awards on Wednesday unveiled nominations repping the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2019. PBS tops the nominees list with 11 noms including several the Documentaries category via its POV series.
Other nominees include HBO’s Emmy winners Succession…
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Sami Khan, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker of the documentary short St Louis Superman, has inked with WME. He will be repped by the firm in all areas.
Khan most recently co-directed and produced the feature documentary The Last Out, which was slated to premiere at this year’s Tribeca…
EXCLUSIVE: There is a certain generation that basks in the ’90s Blind Melon tune “No Rain” and Oscilloscope Laboratories is looking to shed light on that era via the forthcoming documentary All I Can Say. The indie film company co-founded by Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch has acquired the North American rights to the…
If Michelle Obama wasn’t so adamant that she isn’t running for public office, the perfectly timed new Netflix documentary Becoming would sure seem like a campaign launch.
Dropping on May 6 on the streamer, the recently announced very authorized biopic of sorts could also be Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s worst nightmare…
“I feel that this documentary is definitive documentary of her life you know, and my book is the definitive deep dive into our relationship, but I also talk about the night she died and the sheriff's department reopening the case, I get into that in the book as well, and I just think this narrative of fiction that has…
The Andrew Fried-directed documentary We Are Freestyle Love Supreme produced by Hamilton icon Lin-Manuel Miranda has found a home at Hulu and will hit the streamer June 5.
The docu made its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and spotlights the 15-year journey of the hip-hop improvisational group…
The 33rd season of PBS’ documentary series POV will launch July 20 with the broadcast premiere of Linda Goldstein Knowlton's We Are The Radical Monarchs. The film which premiered at SXSW 2019, follows a group of young girls of color on the frontlines of social justice in Oakland, and kicks off a lineup of 13 docs that…
