Mariska Hargitay, Laura Poitras and other Oscar-contending nonfiction helmers discuss their process, subjects and inspirations. By THR Staff Eight of this year’s top documentary filmmakers — and Oscar ...
A Chicago filmmaker decided to create a classroom in Africa, where he shares his knowledge and insight with wildlife ...
The disruptive power of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements has shifted the conversation around storytelling about underrepresented and marginalized communities, even as the backlash in the ...
EXCLUSIVE: The Toronto Film Festival has uninvited the documentary The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue by Canadian filmmaker Barry Avrich from a spot in the festival’s fall lineup. A TIFF ...
When the documentary "Trouble the Water," a New Orleans-based film about Hurricane Katrina, was nominated for an Oscar in 2008, the landscape for nonfiction motion pictures was different. Even by 2020 ...
Despite these losses, the documentary community said it is not giving up. "Can't stop. Won't stop," said filmmaker Carol Bash, whose 2015 documentary about jazz musician Mary Lou Williams, Mary Lou ...
EARLIER: One by one the emails hit inboxes, on letterhead of the National Endowment for the Humanities: that grant we gave you to make your documentary? It’s cancelled. Last week, the Trump ...
Mexican filmmakers have pulled science fiction into near space with “Ground Control,” that incorporates real images from the ...
The disruptive power of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements has shifted the conversation around storytelling about underrepresented and marginalized communities, even as the backlash in the ...