New York filmmaker Laura Naylor’s VAS-Y COUPE!, a beautifully observed portrait of seasonal labor at a family-owned vineyard in France’s Champagne region, will World Premiere at DOC NYC 2019.
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Laura Naylor’s Winemaking Vérité Documentary VAS-Y COUPE! to World Premiere at DOC NYC 2019
Film subjects picking grapes in Vas-y Coupe!, directed by Laura Naylor. Courtesy of By and By Productions
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35th IDA Documentary Awards Nominees Announced, FOR SAMA, LEAVING NEVERLAND and More
FOR SAMA. Sama pictured in September 2016, in the bombarded east of the city with a placard in response to US presidential candidate Gary Johnson’s infamous gaffe “What’s Aleppo” – Courtesy of Channel 4, Copyright Waad al-Kateab. The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced the 35th Annual IDA Documentary Awards Nominees along with the Courage Under Fire Award honoree Waad Al-Kataeb, director and producer of For Sama. For the first time, the IDA will present an award for Best Director and, notably, all of the nominated films have female directors.
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HBO Picks Up Lisa Ling’s Documentary Series “Birth, Wedding, Funeral”
HBO Max has greenlit travel docuseries Birth, Wedding, Funeral as part of an overall deal with Lisa Ling. Each episode of the series will immerse viewers in a different country to reveal their cultures through the lens of the three universal rituals – births, weddings, and funerals. In a quest to understand what connects us and celebrate the diversity of deeply rooted customs around the world, each episode is a riveting investigation of the human experience in a specific region, and a dramatic dive into an intimate moment in the lives of the people who live there.
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Kim Longinotto’s Portrait of Photojournalist Letizia Battaglia – SHOOTING THE MAFIA Opens in November
Film subject Letizia Battaglia’s photo Palermo, 1982. Vicino alla Chiesa di Santa Chiara. Il gioco del killer. (“Palermo, 1982. Near the Church of Santa Chiara. The game of the killer.”) in Shooting the Mafia, directed by Kim Longinotto . Courtesy of Cohen Media Group. Veteran documentarian Kim Longinotto’s Shooting The Mafia is a portrait of fearless photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, who spent her career documenting the life and crimes of the Sicilian Mafia. Featured at the 2019 Sundance and Berlin film festivals and soon to be seen at DOC NYC, Shooting The Mafia will open at the Quad Cinema on Friday, November 22 with a national rollout to follow.
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Showtime Releases Trailer for READY FOR WAR -Documentary on Deported US Military Veterans
READY FOR WAR directed by Andrew Renzi The documentary film Ready for War, which explores the phenomenon of deported United States military veterans, will premiere on the Showtime network on Sunday, November 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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Cheryl Haines’ AI WEIWEI: YOURS TRULY Documentary to Premiere at DOC NYC
AI WEIWEI: YOURS TRULY directed by Cheryl Haines Cheryl Haines, the curator of the exhibition @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, directs the documentary film Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly, which will have its New York Premiere at DOC NYC 2019.
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STEVENSON – LOST AND FOUND – Documentary on Artist James Stevenson to World Premiere at DOC NYC
Stevenson – Lost and Found directed by Sally Williams The many lives of prolific cartoonist, writer and artist, James Stevenson are showcased in the documentary Stevenson – Lost and Found directed by Sally Williams which will World Premiere at DOC NYC on Sunday, November 10.
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Malaysia Selects M FOR MALAYSIA For Best International Feature Category at Oscars
M for Malaysia For the first time in the country’s history, Malaysia has picked a documentary feature film as its official submission for the Oscars®. The powerful documentary M for Malaysia, directed by Dian Lee and Ineza Roussille, has been selected as Malaysia’s official entry for the Best International Feature Film category for the 2020 Academy Awards®.
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HBO Max Teams with Monica Lewinsky on New Documentary 15 Minutes of Shame
Monica Lewinsky HBO Max has picked up the groundbreaking documentary 15 Minutes of Shame from executive producers Monica Lewinsky and Max Joseph (MTV’s Catfish). Produced by Six West, the documentary features Joseph with appearances by Lewinsky as they take an in-depth look at the public shaming epidemic in our culture and explore our collective need to destroy one another.
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Immersive Documentary INDIRECT ACTIONS to World Premiere at Downtown LA Film Festival
Indirect Actions directed by Maranatha Hay The immersive documentary feature film Indirect Actions from award-winning director Maranatha Hay and producer Ryan Moore will World Premiere at the Downtown LA Film Festival.
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Hannah Dweck’s GUEST HOUSE Documentary Profiles Women Reintegrating from Prison
Maddison and Selena share a hug at the Guest House. Credit: Dweck Productions Guest House, a new documentary by first-time director Hannah Dweck co-directed by Yael Luttwak, will open at the Hot Springs Film Festival October 23, and the Austin Film Festival October 26.
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Showtime Producing docu-Series Profiling Controversial Hip-Hop Artist Tekashi 6ix9ine
Tekashi 6ix9ine Showtime Documentary Films announced a new limited docu-series profiling notorious hip-hop artist Tekashi 6ix9ine, called SuperVillain. Inspired by the Rolling Stone feature “Tekashi 6ix9ine: The Rise and Fall of a Hip Hop Supervillain” by investigative journalist Stephen Witt, the three-part series will trace how a New York City deli clerk named Daniel Hernandez exploded into Tekashi 6ix9ine, the tattooed face of Gen Z and hip hop’s prince of trolls, boasting 2.6 billion streams and 15 hits on the Billboard charts. Tekashi is currently in prison on federal racketeering and weapons charges and is awaiting release as early as the end of this year. Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment will executive produce. The series will be produced by Imagine Documentaries, Rolling Stone and Lightbox. The announcement was made by Vinnie Malhotra, Executive Vice President, Nonfiction Programming, Showtime Networks Inc.