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The American Film Institute has announced that Music By John Williams, a documentary on the iconic film composer from Lucasfilm Ltd, Amblin Documentaries and Imagine Documentaries, will world premiere as the opening night film of the 38th AFI Fest on Wednesday, October 23. Directed by Laurent…

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: Buffalo Bills fans will be the subject of the feature-length documentary Just One Before I Die from co-directors Addison Henderson (The Forgotten City, Givers of Death) and Kevin Polowy (Standing Up, Falling Down, In the Shadow of Beirut). Production of the indie project, conceived by…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the documentary Food and Country, a collaboration between acclaimed best-selling author Ruth Reichl and award-winning director Laura Gabbert. See the exclusive trailer below. The film, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film…

NATAS has responded to a request by more than 150 entertainment industry leaders to take back the 2024 News & Documentary Emmy nomination for Bisan Atef Owda. Owda, along with the media outlet AJ+, is nominated in the Outstanding Hard News Feature Story Short Form category for It's Bisan From Gaza an…

HBO on Tuesday announced that Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos, a two-part documentary on the premium cabler’s iconic mob drama The Sopranos and the visionary behind it, will premiere on September 7. The two parts will air consecutively, beginning at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on the 7th, and will also be…

EXCLUSIVE: Blockchain streamer Vabble has launched a transaction on-demand service, kicking it off with a three-part docuseries from a crypto accelerator. Founder community Alliance is behind the TVOD service’s debut show, Minimum Viable Product, which provides an insight into the accelerator’s MVP…

Boyzone’s Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, Shane Lynch and Michael Graham are to take part in their first joint interviews for three decades in a Sky doc about one of the most successful boy bands of all time in Britain. Boyzone [working title] will reveal the personal experiences of the band members, who…

Maciek Hamela's Oscar-shortlisted documentary In the Rearview arrives on video on demand platforms this weekend — a compelling portrait of Ukrainian civilians fleeing for their lives in the early days of Russia's full-scale invasion. The Polish-born Hamela is both filmmaker and, in a real sense a…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired U.S. and Latin American rights to State of Silence (Estado de Silencio), Santiago Maza's documentary on the perilous threat facing investigative journalists in Mexico. Actor-activist Diego Luna executive produced the film which made its world premiere at Tribeca…

Picturehouse has acquired North American rights to Porcelain War, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. The film directed by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev will be released in theaters throughout North America in the fall, in advance of an expected Oscar…

EXCLUSIVE: Country music star Hardy is teaming up with Grammy-nominated songwriter Ben Johnson and writer/producer Dave Alan Johnson to executive produce the new docuseries Music Row, currently in production in Nashville. The indie project follows successful songwriters and artists in country music…