Good Night Oppy took home five trophies at the 7th Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards including the top award of the evening, winning Gold for Best Documentary Feature. The film’s other awards went to were Ryan White for Best Director, Best Score for Blake Neely, as well as Best Narration (written by Helen Kearns and Ryan White, performed by Angela Bassett), and Best Science/Nature Documentary.
Netflix debuted the official trailer for Sr., the award-winning documentary portrait of the life and career of maverick filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. Robert Downey Jr. pays tribute to his late father in the documentary chronicling the eclectic career of the pioneering filmmaker.
Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love leads the nominations for the 38th annual International Documentary Association (IDA)Documentary Awards, earning 5 nods including Best Feature Documentary, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Writing.
“Why do American leaders who vow ‘never again’ repeatedly fail to stop genocide?” – former UN Ambassador Samantha Power.
HBO debuted the official trailer for My So-called High School Rank, the documentary chronicles the creation of a musical theater production at Granite Bay High School in Sacramento, CA, inspired by students’ stories of the constant pressures to achieve a top-rank in every part of their lives to get ahead in today’s fierce college admissions process.
Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love and Alex Pritz’ The Territory lead the nominees for the 16th Cinema Eye Honors Annual Awards celebrating outstanding artistry and craft in nonfiction filmmaking, with seven nominations each, tying the record for most Cinema Eye nominations in a single year. Shaunak Sen’s Cannes-winning feature, All That Breathes, received six nominations, and Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, winner of the Golden Lion at Venice, received four.
Netflix released the official trailer for Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields, the documentary series investigates the Texas Killing Fields, a region with a dark pattern of girls who have disappeared and turned up dead.
Disney+ unveiled the official trailer for Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage? the intimate and inspirational documentary on the Tony Award® -winning actress and singer on her journey to fulfill a lifelong dream to headline Madison Square Garden.
Directed by Valerie Kontakos, the documentary Queen of the Deuce tells the story of Chelly Wilson, entrepreneur, and Holocaust escapist who built an empire in the Times Square pornography circuit in the 1970s. The film world premieres at DOC NYC on November 11, 2022.
For the first time on camera, since her culture-defining trial and acquittal 11 years ago, Casey Anthony sits down to share her side of the story in Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies, a 3-part documentary series event premiering Tuesday, November 29 on Peacock.
Our Movie (Nuestra película), the powerful debut feature film by acclaimed producer Diana Bustamante (Memoria), will have its international premiere in the Kaleidoscope Competition at the 13th hybrid edition of DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival, taking place November 9–27.
Netflix revealed the first look teaser trailer for Capturing the Killer Nurse, the companion documentary to The Good Nurse, based on the best-selling book written by Charles Graeber on Charlie Cullen, a serial killers, with a body count potentially numbering in the hundreds across multiple medical facilities in the Northeast.