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DC/DOX, which just wrapped its fourth edition, gives the nation's capital what it deserves – a first-rate nonfiction film festival. Not only is D.C. a major metropolitan area, of course, but so many prominent documentaries on pressing social and political issues connect directly to decisions made…

UPDATED with latest: With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences setting its dates for the 2027 and 2028 Oscars (the latter the ceremony’s 100th anniversary), the rest of the awards docket for those two years is falling into place. After the Oscars announcement, SAG-AFTRA’s Actor…

A 98-year-old woman dead, a small town's reputation in tatters, and 1st and 4th Amendment protections put to the test. That's the outcome of a disastrous police raid on the Marion County Record in August 2023. The story of the raid on the newspaper in Marion, Kansas and the national uproar it…

With the United States’ 250th birthday, the documentary filmmakers of Declarations: Black Americans and the Revolutionary War turned to modern technology to reclaim history. Director Stacey Holman and her co-writer/fellow director Maya Tepler explained why chose to use generative AI to “give our…

The Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, if it goes through, would not only have a major impact on the future of the media business, but on our collective past. Skydance Media, through its acquisition of Paramount, already controls the CBS News archive. If Paramount succeeds in taking over…

EXCLUSIVE: EGOT-winner John Legend and L.A. Times Short Docs are partnering to release the documentary I Got My Brother today, on Juneteenth, a film about the bond between siblings Jarrett and Baylon Harper. The SXSW-winning short directed by Victor Gabriel is now streaming on the L.A. Times' You…

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rory Kennedy follows a self-imposed rule when she travels by air. "I don't fly on the 737 Maxes," she says of Boeing aircraft. "And I don't fly on the Dreamliners." Anyone who has seen her documentary Downfall: The Case Against Boeing will understand why. That 2022…

EXCLUSIVE: Republic Pictures has picked up the Hugh Jackman and Elizabeth Banks narrated documentary Mighty Mary from award-winning filmmaker and Olympian Mary Mazzio and Skydance Sports. The pic chronicles the first all-women's sailing team to compete for the America's Cup. The Mazzio directed…

The feet. Martha Graham did not stick her dancers into dainty ballet slippers. No, her dancers and Graham herself in performance, went barefoot. And the foot was flexed – taut and expressive – not elegantly pointed as in classical ballet. This is just one of the ways Graham revolutionized what…

Back in the early 1980s two talented young performers from Ontario first worked together on SCTV — stars-in-the-making John Candy and Martin Short. All those years later, they're paired together again, this time in the race for Primetime Emmy recognition. Candy and Short are the focus of…

EXCLUSIVE: The Kinema streaming platform is bringing two acclaimed documentaries to viewers at home for a limited time: Berlinale winner Holding Liat and DOC NYC premiere Everything You Have Is Yours. Tickets to view each film are $5. Half of the proceeds of each ticket will be donated to the…

EXCLUSIVE: American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez, the award-winning documentary about the acclaimed playwright and filmmaker, will begin its theatrical run July 17 at Film Forum in New York City. The film directed by David Alvarado will expand the following week to Los Angeles (at Laemmle…