Documentary

  • Fashion Designer Diane von Furstenberg Explores Statue of Liberty in New HBO Documentary

    Diane von Fürstenberg
    Diane von Fürstenberg at the Vanity Fair party for the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.

    Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg is on a quest to explore the story of the iconic Statue of Liberty in the new documentary Liberty: Mother of Exiles. From Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato of World of Wonder (HBO’s Emmy(R)-nominated “Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking,”) the documentary follows Diane von Furstenberg, “godmother” of the statue, in her quest to discover how sculptor Auguste Bartholdi’s dream became a reality and what the statue means to people around the world. Liberty: Mother of Exiles will debut on HBO this fall.

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  • Beto O’Rourke Documentary RUNNING WITH BETO Sets HBO Air Date

    Running with Beto. Beto O'Rourke shakes hands with a potential voter as he departs a campaign event in Houston, TX on November 5, 2018. | Credit: Charlie Gross)
    Running with Beto. Beto O’Rourke shakes hands with a potential voter as he departs a campaign event in Houston, TX on November 5, 2018. | Credit: Charlie Gross)

    The documentary Running with Beto, a behind-the-scenes look at Beto O’Rourke’s 2018 Senate campaign, premiered at this year’s South By Southwest Film Festival, where it received the Audience Award for Documentary Spotlight. The film will make its TV debut on Tuesday, May 28, exclusively on HBO.

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  • DocLands Documentary Film Festival Awards $94,500 to Documentary Filmmakers at DocPitch 2019

    DocLands Documentary Film Festival 2019 Doc Pitch Winner: FIVE YEARS NORTH.
    DocLands Documentary Film Festival 2019 Doc Pitch Winner: FIVE YEARS NORTH. Photo Credit: ©Tommy Lau Photography

    DocLands Documentary Film Festival hosted its annual DocPitch forum this past weekend and awarded director Chris Temple and editor Alejandro Valdés-Rochin with a $25,000 cash prize, provided by Project No. 9, for their documentary film currently in development, Five Years North.

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  • World Premiere of HBO’s TRUE JUSTICE: BRYAN STEVENSON’S FIGHT FOR EQUALITY to Open AFI DOCS 2019

    True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality
    True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality

    AFI DOCS 2019 will open with the world premiere of HBO’s TRUE JUSTICE: BRYAN STEVENSON’S FIGHT FOR EQUALITY, directed by Peter Kunhardt, George Kunhardt and Teddy Kunhardt, and will close with RAISE HELL: THE LIFE & TIMES OF MOLLY IVINS, directed by Janice Engel. AFI DOCS runs June 19–23, 2019, in Washington, DC, and Silver Spring, MD.

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  • Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019 Announces Lineup

    DIEGO MARADONA
    DIEGO MARADONA

    Sheffield Doc/Fest announced the line-up of 180+ documentary features and shorts for its 26th edition, which runs from 6 to 11 June, 2019, under the tagline “Ways of Seeing” inspired by John Berger’s television series and book of the same name. The festival opens on Thursday June 6 with Diego Maradona, a wild and irreverent look at one of the world’s most iconic sportsmen, both on and off the pitch, during his infamous time in Naples.

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  • FOR SAMA, Waad al-Kateab’s Chronicle of Syrian Crisis, Sets US Release Date + Drops Trailer

    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.
    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.

    Winner of the award for Best Documentary at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival For Sama documents Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to her daughter Sama. The documentary film takes the form of a letter from Waad al-Kateab to Sama. For Sama directed by Waad al-Kateab along with Edward Watts opens in US theaters on July 26.

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  • BACK TO THE FATHERLAND, Documentary on Young Israeli Emigrants, Opens in June

    BACK TO THE FATHERLAND
    BACK TO THE FATHERLAND

    Back to the Fatherland from filmmakers Kat Rohrer and Gil Levanon, follows the journey of three families in transition; Israeli grandchildren from the “Third Generation” and their respective grandparents. The film deals with both sides of the historic tragedy and the attempt to build their own future, without ignoring the past.

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  • BLUE NOTE RECORDS: BEYOND THE NOTE, Documentary on Pioneering Jazz Label Opens in June

    Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
    Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

    Sophie Huber’s Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes, is a revelatory journey behind the scenes of Blue Note Records, the pioneering label that gave voice to some of the most ground-breaking jazz artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The film opens June 14th in New York City, and June 28th in Los Angeles with a nationwide theatrical release to follow.

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  • Obamas Announce First Slate of Netflix Projects

    President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wait in the Green Room before hosting a Diplomatic Corps Reception in the East Room of the White House, Oct. 5, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
    President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wait in the Green Room before hosting a Diplomatic Corps Reception in the East Room of the White House, Oct. 5, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

    Higher Ground Productions, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company in partnership with Netflix, today announced the company’s initial slate of upcoming projects. The content encompasses a wide range of fiction and non-fiction productions for all audiences including scripted, unscripted and documentary series, as well as full-length features and documentaries.

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  • HEAVY WATER, Story of Big Wave Surfer, Drops Into Movie Theaters June 13 Only

    HEAVY WATER
    HEAVY WATER

    Heavy Water follows professional big wave surfer Nathan Fletcher through the evolution of surfing and his relationship with big waves, culminating in a spectacular, never- before-performed stunt, where Fletcher “acid drops” from a helicopter into a huge wave.

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  • Award Winning Science Documentary THE SERENGETI RULES Sets May Release Date

    Young Tony Sinclair in the Serengeti - The Serengeti Rules
    Young Tony Sinclair in the Serengeti – The Serengeti Rules

    In Nicolas Brown’s award-winning documentary The Serengeti Rules, five pioneering scientists explores some of the most remote and spectacular places on Earth, and make surprising discoveries that flip our understanding of nature on its head. The film which had its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, will open in New York City at The Quad Cinema on Friday, May 10, 2019 and in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Monica Film Center on Friday, May 17, with and additional select markets in the US and Canada following in the spring and summer via Abramorama.

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  • Watch Video Clip from MARTHA: A PICTURE STORY, Documentary on Iconic Street Art Photographer Martha Cooper

    Martha Cooper in "Martha: A Picture Story"
    Martha Cooper in “Martha: A Picture Story”

    Martha: A Picture Story, is filmmaker Selina Miles’ vibrant portrait of photographer Martha Cooper, who in 1970s New York, captured the first images of graffiti appearing on the city’s subway carriages, and decades later, realizes she’s become an unusual icon of the street art world. The film, world premiering at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, released the first look – a video clip, which quickly captures the fascination behind the icon Martha Cooper.

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