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At the beginning of the Netflix documentary Tell Me Who I Am a British man takes a seat in front of the camera and calmly describes a mystery. "I don't know who I am," he says evenly. "Not just the story of who I am, but really who I am. The real me." For Alex Lewis these words are not an exaggeration or metaphorical…

The trophies for the fourth annual Critics' Choice Documentary Awards were handed out on Sunday with Neon’s Apollo 11 taking Best Documentary Feature. The ceremony took place at BRIC in Brooklyn. Neon was the top winner of the night with the space docu, winning five awards. Their docu The Biggest Little Farm walked…

When director Agnès Varda came out with her 2017 Oscar-nominated documentary Faces Places, co-directed with the artist JR, many people assumed it would be her final film. In her late 80s at that point, her eyesight was failing—if not her unquenchable curiosity. But in fact she would complete one more film before her…

On the Netflix Hollywood compound recently, a capacity crowd gathered in an amphitheater for an event with the crackling energy—and almost the look—of a UFC title bout. The contenders in the ring at Real to Reel: A Netflix Documentary Showcase Presented by Deadline were all heavyweights, not in MMA but nonfiction…

Eli Roth’s History of Horror will live again. AMC has renewed the fake-blood retrospective by the Hostel director for a six-episode second season that will include a deep dive into the cinema realms of magic-weilding witches, misshapen monsters, and infamously evil youngsters. Season 2, which will also appear on AMC…

Documentary group Cinema Eye on Thursday unveiled nominations for the 2020 Cinema Eye Honors, with Netflix’s American Factory and Neon’s Apollo 11 leading the way with five nominations each. Netflix tops all distributors with 17 noms, the most ever in a single year. Winners will be revealed at a ceremony January 6 at…

British sailor Tracy Edwards has faced some major obstacles in her time, like ocean swells of stunning size. "You’ve got these big following waves," she says of the southern ocean, "these massive waves which sort of blot out the sky at some point and it feels like it’s chasing you." Edwards faced obstacles of a…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to D.W. Young's The Booksellers. The documentary premiered at the 2019 New York Film Festival. The film will have a limited release in March that will coincide with the annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. The docu is…

UPDATED with list of new fellows, 7 AM: Firelight Media has announced newest group of 12 Fellows selected for the 2019-21 Firelight Documentary Lab. Several of them will attend at the Documentary Lab's 10th Anniversary Gala tonight in Harlem. Here is the list of new fellows and their projects; read details of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Smithsonian Channel is planning to board a newly-announced Channel 4 documentary charting the Boeing 737 Max disaster, Deadline understands. Produced by Arrow Media, which makes Investigation Discovery series American Monster, the 60-minute film will explore how the fastest-selling aircraft in Boeing's…

Music Box Films has acquired U.S. rights to Werner Herzog's Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, the filmmaker’s latest documentary the bowed earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival and later played Telluride. A spring 2020 theatrical release is planned. When famed In Patagonia writer and adventurer Bruce…

Twofour Group has moved quickly to fill a creative hole opened up by the departures of Melanie Leach and Andrew Mackenzie by hiring BBC commissioner David Brindley as creative director. Brindley has won admirers during his tenure as head of popular factual and factual entertainment at the BBC, and is responsible for…