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EXCLUSIVE: A diverse group of documentary filmmakers and major industry professionals will converge on the Maine coast next month for the 20th Camden International Film Festival (CIFF), one of the most eagerly anticipated events of the year for the nonfiction film community. The Points North…

Michelle and Barack Obama are teaming up with double Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot and Kyle Thrash for The Turnaround, a short documentary that will make its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. The film tells a remarkable story from the sporting world that suggests Philadelphia, indeed…

EXCLUSIVE: About 50 minutes into Blink, the National Geographic documentary that's about to make its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, the Lemay-Pelletier family boards a gondola in Ecuador and begins a spectacular descent down a steep mountainside. But then the gondola jerks to a sudden…

UPDATED: Netflix has set September 25 for the premiere of Mr. McMahon, a six-episode hourlong documentary series, directed and executive produced by Chris Smith (Tiger King), that chronicles the rise and fall of controversial former WWE boss Vince McMahon. Described as "an unflinching…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the September theatrical release of Mom & Dad’s Nipple Factory, an award-winning feature doc from Daytime Emmy-winning director Justin Johnson (aka Justinsuperstar), Mayim Bialik has boarded the project as an executive producer. Along with Hayley Lozitsky Weisser and Alyssa…

Accepting his party's nomination for president for a third time, Donald Trump addressed the Republican National Convention in July, returning to a familiar theme. "We… have an illegal immigration crisis, and it's taking place right now, as we sit here in this beautiful arena," he told delegates…

Of all the policies implemented by the Trump administration, the most outrageous — at least to many critics — was Family Separation. Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris, for one, doesn't mince words in his assessment of it. "The policy, when you really look at it square in the face, is…

The Netflix basketball series following LeBron James, Jimmy Butler, Anthony Edwards, Domantas Sabonis and Jayson Tatum has been confirmed, with October 9 premiere. The streamer’s Starting 5 comes from James’ Uninterrupted in association with the Obamas’ Higher Ground and Peyton Manning’s Omaha…

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…

Curiously, for a woman who directed a movie called Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl seemed to lose control over her own person when she first met Adolf Hitler. "I had hot sweats," the German filmmaker said of seeing the future Führer speak at a rally in 1932. "I was somehow captured, as by a…

Take one conservative anti-Trumper, add a liberal Hollywood filmmaker, toss them in a Hot Tub Time Machine, and what comes out? One of the most talked-about documentaries set to premiere at next month’s Toronto Film Festival. In the new episode of Deadline's Doc Talk podcast, TIFF's chief…

EXCLUSIVE: Juno Films has acquired worldwide rights to Ciarán Cassidy’s documentary Housewife of the Year, ahead of its North American premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival. World premiering at CPH:DOX before going on to win Best Irish Feature Documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh, the film will…