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When veteran documentary filmmaker Irene Taylor met Celine Dion via Zoom in winter 2021 about the prospect of doing a documentary chronicling Dion’s life and career, she had no idea where this would ultimately take both the subject and the director. In fact…

As a screenwriter, David E. Kelley is used to injecting social commentary into his material — not unlike the way the ancient Greeks entered the city of Troy. But when the creator of shows like The Practice, Big Little Lies and Ally McBeal made his foray into documentary filmmaking – with the ocean…

The massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria in February 2023 produced catastrophic damage and loss of life – killing more than 55,000 thousand people and leveling huge swaths of cities. Perhaps most devastating of all was the knowledge that the destruction didn't need to be so extreme. Poor…

EXCLUSIVE: Dial Tone Films, the production company of director-producer Celia Aniskovich, is joining forces with The New Yorker Studios on a documentary series that will explore the still-unraveling events surrounding the death of teenager Preston Lord near the wealthy community of Gilbert, Arizona in…

UPDATED with latest: The Oscars, strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like ahead as we cruise into Emmy season and look ahead to Cannes, the fall film…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field, an award-winning documentary from Michael Selditch about the famed costume designer of the same name. On the heels of its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival, the film will open at…

Alex Gibney has Frank Sinatra to thank for his most recent documentary  – the two-part Emmy-contending film In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon. Simon, one of America's greatest singer-songwriters, saw Gibney's 2015 documentary Sinatra: All or Nothing at All, and liked it so much he…

EXCLUSIVE: Johnny Canales, the famed Tejano singer and Mexican American TV host who passed away on June 13, is the subject of Take It Away, a new feature doc from Adrian Arredondo and Myrna Perez that has entered production. In a moment when Latino music and artists like Peso Pluma, Grupo Frontera…

Five-time Grammy winner Céline Dion recently promised fans that she’d return to the stage despite her struggles with stiff person syndrome, and tonight was another big public appearance for her at the NYC premiere of the Amazon MGM Studios documentary, I Am: Céline Dion. “I hope to see you all again…

Tuesday marks the 40th anniversary of a grim day in U.K. history: the Battle of Orgreave when police clashed with striking workers at a coking plant, leaving more 100 people injured. Those shocking events are investigated in the documentary Strike: An Uncivil War, which on Monday – the eve of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal, The Picture Company, Entertainment 360 & Zaftig Films are out to buyers on a TV series starring Julianne Moore based on the acclaimed 2021 documentary The Lost Leonardo, about how a crumbling painting depicting Christ in the Renaissance called Salvador Mundi was restored and found…

EXCLUSIVE: Brothers Kenny and Keith Lucas (Judas and the Black Messiah) are teaming with Mookie Thompson on their first documentary, a project on the unexpected creative partnership between wrestler Swerve Strickland and rapper Derek “Flash Garments” Shaw, which has helped take the former’s career in the…