Showtime released the trailer for the upcoming season of the IDA Award-winning series The Trade ahead of its premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Documentary
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Watch Trailer for Season Two of THE TRADE, Showtime Docu-Series Premiering at Sundance
The Trade by Matthew Heineman, an official selection of the Special Events program at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Ross McDonnell
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Watch Trailer for MISS AMERICANA, Revealing Taylor Swift Documentary at Sundance
A still from Miss Americana by Lana Wilson, an official selection of the Documentary Premieres program at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Netflix released the official trailer for the Taylor Swift documentary Miss Americana which World Premieres as the opening film of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival on Thursday. Directed by filmmaker Lana Wilson (After Tiller, The Departure) Miss Americana opens in select and on Netflix starting on January 31st, 2020.
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Watch Trailer for ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND, Produced by Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band Magnolia Pictures released a new trailer for the documentary Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band, directed by Daniel Roher (Ghosts of Our Forest) that World Premiered as the opening night film of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Watch Trailer for THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE, Ukranian Doc at Sundance 2020
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange by Iryna Tsilyk, an official selection of the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Ukrainian documentarian and author Iryna Tsilyk released the trailer for her feature-length debut, The Earth Is Blue as an Orange set to World Premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
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Watch Trailer For THE NINE LIVES OF OZZY OSBOURNE, Ozzy Osbourne Documentary at SXSW
Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne | Director: R. Greg Johnston | Credit: Cameron Glendenning A&E Network’s Emmy Award-winning ‘Biography’ is set to air the two-hour documentary special exploring the many lives and decade-spanning career of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne. Featuring exclusive interviews with Ozzy as he reflects on the many phases of his journey, “The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne” will have its world premiere at SXSW in March and is set to air this summer on A&E.
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Guy Clark Documentary WITHOUT GETTING KILLED OR CAUGHT To Premiere at SXSW
Songwriter Guy Clark in 1972 | Credit: Marshall Fallwell | Without Getting Killed or Caught. Director: Tamara Saviano, Paul Whitfield Filmmakers Tamara Saviano and Paul Whitfield will world premiere “Without Getting Killed or Caught,” their remarkable documentary film about the complicated relationship among legendary songwriters Guy Clark, Susanna Clark and Townes Van Zandt, and the art it inspired, at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival.
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Documentary ‘COOKED: Survival by Zip Code’ on Deadly 1995 Chicago Heat Wave to Debut on PBS
COOKED: Survival by Zip Code The feature documentary COOKED: Survival by Zip Code, a searing exploration into the politics of “disaster,” blends investigative reporting about the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave with a potent argument that the best preparation for a disaster may start with investing in racial and economic justice.
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Showtime DocuSeries OUTCRY to World Premiere at SXSW
Outcry, a five-part documentary series examining the gripping story of high school football star Greg Kelley Showtime will air Outcry, a five-part documentary series examining the gripping story of high school football star Greg Kelley, his controversial conviction and the quest for truth and justice as the case unfolds. Produced and directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Pat Kondelis (Disgraced), Outcry will have its world premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals in Austin, ahead of its television premiere on Friday, April 3 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime.
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HBO Announces Documentary Lineup for First Half of 2020, WELCOME TO CHECHNYA, McMILLION$
Welcome to Chechnya by David France, an official selection of the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute HBO has confirmed their slate of captivating documentaries for the first half of 2020, including ATLANTA CHILD MURDERS (working title), a documentary series reexamining the missing and murdered children of Atlanta in the late-’70s and early-’80s in collaboration with Show of Force, Roc Nation and Get Lifted Film Co.; WELCOME TO CHECHNYA, directed by David France, chronicling a group of brave activists risking their lives to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ persecution in the repressive and closed Russian republic of Chechnya; NATALIE WOOD: WHAT REMAINS BEHIND, intimately exploring Natalie Wood’s life, career and tragic death through the unique perspective of her daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner and others who knew her best; and McMILLION$, from executive producer Mark Wahlberg and directors James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte, a six-part documentary series chronicling the stranger-than-fiction story of the mysterious McDonald’s Monopoly game promotion scam and the mastermind who developed the complex scheme, stealing millions of dollars and building a vast network of co-conspirators across the U.S.
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Ronan Farrow Investigating Threats Against Journalists for New HBO Documentary
Ronan Farrow HBO is in production on the first project in its multi-film deal with best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow. Farrow will collaborate with Academy Award nominated directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady of Loki Films to investigate threats, intimidation and violence directed at journalists working to expose corruption and abuse by governments, corporations and other powerful interests. The film will follow subjects in the United States and internationally.
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Showtime Announces 2020 Documentaries, LOVE FRAUD, THE TRADE, THE KINGMAKER
Imelda Marcos on her 85th birthday in KINGMAKER. Photo Credit: Lauren Greenfield. Showtime Documentary Films announced upcoming titles from its 2020 slate from preeminent documentarians, including LOVE FRAUD from Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing, THE TRADE from Matthew Heineman, THE LONGEST WAR from Greg Barker, Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, KINGDOM OF SILENCE from Alex Gibney, Rick Rowley and Lawrence Wright, and THE KINGMAKER from Lauren Greenfield.
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Watch Trailer for MCMILLIONS – HBO DocuSeries on McDonald’s Monopoly Game Scam
McDonald’s – The MONOPOLY Game 2016 HBO released the official trailer for “McMillions,” the documentary series directed by by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte that chronicles the stranger-than-fiction story of an ex-cop turned security auditor who rigged the McDonald’s Monopoly game promotion for a decade, stealing millions of dollars and building a vast network of co-conspirators across the U.S.