American Factory won the top awards at the 2020 Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking, taking the award for ‘Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking’ and ‘Outstanding Achievement in Direction’ for directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert.
The Directors Guild of America announced the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for 2019.
The rom-com documentary Shoot To Marry, the follow-up to Canadian filmmaker Steve Markle’s cult classic Camp Hollywood released the new trailer prior to the film’s World Premier at the 2020 Slamdance Film Festival.
In celebration of the music festival’s 20th anniversary, YouTube Originals is partnering with Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for a feature-length documentary “Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert” set to premiere March 31.
Film Movement released a new trailer for the award winning documentary Advocate, a powerful portrait of the controversial Israeli defense attorney Lea Tsemel, directed by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche. The documentary opened in theaters on Friday, January 3, 2020 in New York at Quad Cinema and Los Angeles at Laemmle Royal.
Shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature Oscar at the 92nd Academy Awards, Advocate directed by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche is a powerful portrait of the crusading and controversial Israeli Defense Attorney Lea Tsemeln. Nominated for Best Director and Best Feature at the IDA Awards and a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Film Movement will release the acclaimed feature-length documentary in theaters in New York at Quad Cinema and Los Angeles at Laemmle Royal opening on January 3, 2020.
HBO Documentary Films has acquired the powerful and eye-opening documentary Welcome to Chechnya, from Academy Award nominated director David France (“How to Survive a Plague,” “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson”). This searing documentary shadows a group of brave activists risking their lives to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ persecution in the repressive and closed Russian republic of Chechnya. With unfettered access and a commitment to protecting anonymity, this documentary exposes these underreported atrocities, while highlighting an extraordinary group of heroic people confronting crushing brutality.
Participant and Magnolia Pictures have acquired North American rights to the documentary JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Dawn Porter (TRAPPED, GIDEON’S ARMY). The film chronicles the life and career of the legendary civil rights activist and Democratic Representative from Georgia. Magnolia is planning a Spring 2020 theatrical release.
Two new documentaries profiling iconic rock bands New Order and Duran Duran will premiere on Showtime in late December. Part concert, part documentary, New Order: Decades follows the band’s preparations in the re-staging of their acclaimed collaboration, So It Goes, with the artist Liam Gillick and the 12-piece synthesizer orchestra that captured the headlines during Manchester International Festival 2017. New Order: Decades will premiere on Friday, December 27 at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT.
Hulu announced the official premiere date for the new four-part docuseries, Hillary, about the life and 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton, which will world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
In the powerful and luminous black-and-white film Heimat is a Space in Time, Thomas Heise explores “heimat,” his family home and homeland, through the upheavals of 20th-century German history. Winner of the Caligari Film Prize at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival and Best Film in the International Competition at Visions du Réel 2019, and official selections of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival, Heimat is a Space in Time will make its U.S. theatrical debut via Icarus Films on March 13, 2020 at Anthology Film Archives in New York City, followed by engagements in Los Angeles and nationwide.
