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When PBS announced in 2017 that vaunted documentarian Ken Burns was hard at work on a four-part docuseries about Muhammad Ali, to debut in 2021, the news was greeted with much anticipation: one of the film world’s greats on the Greatest. The only hint of criticism came from some who thought Ali’s life was already […] → Read More
Director Avril Z. Speaks and executive producer Matt McDonough spent the better part of five years pitching their upcoming Discovery Plus docuseries “Uprooted,” which investigates the 1986 unsolved hanging death of Keith Warren, a 19-year-old Black man from Silver Spring, Md. But nobody wanted the project. Then, after George Floyd was murdered in May 2020, […] → Read More
“The Show,” as the Telluride Film Festival programmers refer to its annual feature program, is back this year with a wide array of documentary award season contenders. Muhammad Ali, Arthur Ashe, Jacques Cousteau, Anthony Fauci, Francisco Fellove and the Velvet Underground are the subjects of various docus in this year’s lineup. The nonfiction lineup also […] → Read More
Like the terror attacks on Sept.11, 2001, COVID-19 is a topic that will inevitably become the subject matter of hundreds, if not thousands, of documentaries over the next several decades. Even now, just 18 months after the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. began and during a time when the delta variant is making COVID cases […] → Read More
Purists are worried that self-produced projects like Amazon's 'Val' will dilute the documentary genre. → Read More
Chris Smith talks with Variety about '100 Foot Wave,' surf photography, 'Tiger King' and finding his groove in documentaries again → Read More
Discovery and National Geographic will stream new feature-length documentaries in this summer's Shark Week Vs. Sharkfest showdown. → Read More
Doc buyers have learned that more installments are not necessarily better, as viewership declines over the course of long series → Read More
For the past 27 years the Hamptons Intl. Film Festival meant fancy cocktail hours, plenty of celebrity sightings and the unspooling of award season’s buzziest films. The 28th annual edition, like everything in 2020, will feel different. The Long Island-based fest, which runs Oct. 8-14, will be virtual and offer a select number of drive-in […] → Read More
Just like the first page of a novel, a series’ or episode’s opening 10 minutes acts like a door. If executed successfully, it will make viewers want to run through that entrance, not just walk through it. Those 600 seconds have to not only grab hold of a viewer, but they also have to set […] → Read More
Between 2008 and 2018, four documentary directors focused their lenses on a quartet of formidable women. Women who are remarkably similar, yet incredibly different. Who defy patriarchy and inspire change. Women whose names are Dr. Amani Ballour, Hillary Clinton, Ursula Kroeber Le Guin and Michelle Obama. While Clinton and Obama, two former first ladies, are […] → Read More
Drew Dixon, Sil Lai Abrams and Sheri Hines, three of the victims in "On the Record," talk about their experiences with Russell Simmons. → Read More
With Sundance 2020 wrapped, Tom Paul talks sound mixing the festival's biggest films, including "Hillary." → Read More
"Bombshell" producer and star Charlize Theron helped find a new backer when Annapurna backed out of the production, a PGA Award honoree → Read More
"Grace and Frankie" showrunner Marta Kauffman, co-creator of "Friends," plans on directing more in the future → Read More
Producers Guild co-presidents Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher are headed to the org’s annual awards celebration Jan. 18 with a big accomplishment under their respective belts: its anti-harassment progr… → Read More
Jenny Raskin has been named executive director of documentary film funding company Impact Partners. → Read More
“The documentary editor works much like a writer would on a narrative feature," says "Free Solo" co-director Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. → Read More
“If we all had a greater capacity for empathy — that would be the biggest change in the world there could be," says Moira Demos. → Read More
Known as a notoriously unpredictable bunch, the Academy’s documentary branch has become rather predictable in the past two years. The evidence lies in the films they choose not to recognize come Os… → Read More