WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN is a four-part limited docuseries from filmmaker Sacha Jenkins (BURN MOTHERF*CKER, BURN!) that transcends the music documentary genre by creating a new lane that merges music, socio-cultural commentary and intimate family portrait. The first two episodes of the series will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday, January 28, and the full series will air on Showtime later this spring.
Described as part film, part baptism, Khalik Allah’s Black Mother brings us on a spiritual journey through Jamaica. Beginning Friday March 8, Black Mother will begin its exclusive NY theatrical run at Metrograph.
EPIX will produce the upcoming documentary Laurel Canyon, that promises to pull back the curtain on a mythical world and provide an up-close look at the lives of the musicians who inhabited it. Through a wealth of rare and newly unearthed footage and audio recordings, the documentary will feature an intimate portrait of the artists who created a music revolution that would change popular culture. Alison Ellwood (History of the Eagles) will direct the feature-length film, which will premiere in late 2019 on EPIX.
Claire Simon’s The Competition (Le Concours), the thrilling observational portrait of French film school La Fémis, will be the first theatrical release by Metrograph Pictures and the U.S. theatrical debut of the veteran filmmaker. The film opens Friday, February 22nd in New York at Metrograph, with a nationwide expansion to follow.
Hulu released their own documentary on the controversial Fyre music festival, just days before Netflix was scheduled to release their much hyped version. Titled “Fyre Fraud,” the film features an exclusive interview with Billy McFarland, the convicted con-man behind the festival and is now streaming on Hulu.
Remember the much overhyped Fyre Music Festival that never was? Netflix has released the trailer for the appropriate titled documentary “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened” promising an exclusive behind the scenes look at the infamous unraveling of the Fyre music festival. FYRE launches globally on Netflix on January 18.
Award-winning director Dan Reed’s LEAVING NEVERLAND is a two-part documentary about two men who recount their experiences of being sexually abused by Michael Jackson. The documentary will World Premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival; and debut on HBO and Channel 4 this spring.
Four new documentaries including Daughters of the Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, the behind-the-scenes story of how the original Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders became a controversial pop culture phenomenon at the height of the Sexual Revolution have been acquired by Starz and will debut this year on the cable network. The documentary, Daughters of the Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders premieres on Monday, January 14 at 9 PM ET/PT .
Sisters of the Wilderness, the social impact feature-length documentary, which won best South African Feature Documentary at the Durban International Film Festival in July last year, and qualified for an Oscar consideration, will have its International Premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on January 26, 2019.
Directors Guild of America today announced the five documentary films nominated for 71st Annual DGA Awards. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Saturday, February 2, 2019 at the Hollywood and Highland Center’s Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood, California.
To mark the 20th anniversary of President Clinton’s impeachment, ABC will air “Truth and Lies: Monica,” a two-hour documentary on the Monica Lewinsky scandal, on Thursday, January 10, 2019. The Special includes new interviews with Kenneth Starr and Lucianne Goldberg, and the calls that Monica’s confidante, Linda Tripp, secretly recorded.
David Feige’s powerful and hard-hitting film UNTOUCHABLE, winner of the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, will be released on January 15, 2019. New footage has been added to the already powerful film which frames important questions that are even more relevant in our current #MeToo era.