Starz Releases Official Trailer for New Original Series AMERICA TO ME Set to Debut August 26
by Tori Hartshorn - June 29, 2018 Starz announced today that the new unscripted 10-part series 'America To Me' will premiere on Sunday, August 26, 2018 at 9 PM ET/PT. This insightful documentary series created by Emmy Award(R)-winning and Oscar(R)-nominated filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, Life Itself, Abacus: S...
Artists, Writers, Filmmakers Among Sundance Institute's 2017 Art Of Nonfiction Fellows And Grantees
by A.A. Cristi - November 14, 2017 Sundance Institute's Art of Nonfiction Initiative welcomes four Fellows and five Grantees, as well as three Nonfiction Critics Fellows, in its third year of granting key creative and financial support to inventive nonfiction storytellers working in the field today....
Showtime Presents Unique and Intimate Portrait of Chelsea Manning with XY CHELSEA
by Caryn Robbins - January 07, 2018 SHOWTIME will premiere the feature documentary XY CHELSEA later this year with a U.S. theatrical run and a subsequent premiere across the network's platforms on-air, on demand and over the internet....
Utopia Acquires the Rights to Trevor Paglen Documentary UNSEEN SKIES
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 24, 2022 Utopia has acquired US distribution rights to Unseen Skies, featuring contemporary artist Trevor Paglen, whose work tackles mass surveillance and data collection. Presented by Participant and Screen Australia in association with Screen NSW, the documentary is an In Films production, and is currently...
Sundance Institute Announces Fellows for Sundance Institute | Luma Foundation Directors Retreat
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 05, 2019 Six directors have convened in Arles, France for the sixth annual Sundance Institute | Luma Foundation Directors Retreat in Arles, France, from August 1-12, 2019. Founded in 2013 as a creative collaboration between Sundance Institute's Theatre Program and Luma Foundation, the Retreat is an opportuni...
WE CAN'T EVEN: MILLENNIALS ON FILM Announced At BAM, July 24-August 6
by A.A. Cristi - June 28, 2019 From Wednesday, July 24 through Tuesday, August 6, BAM presents We Can't Even: Millennials on Film, a 14-day, 27-feature, three-short series that takes a prismatic approach to the experiences of a much-maligned and frequently misunderstood generation, featuring films by Barry Jenkins, Celine Sciamma...
Showtime Documentary Films Releases First-Look Trailer For XY CHELSEA
by Tori Hartshorn - April 12, 2019 Today, SHOWTIME released a first-look trailer for XY CHELSEA, which will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday, May 1. Directed by Tim Travers Hawkins, produced by Pulse Films and executive produced by Academy Award® winner Laura Poitras (RISK, Citizenfour), XY CHELSEA te...
SHOWTIME to Premiere Feature Documentary XY CHELSEA
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 31, 2019 SHOWTIME will premiere the feature documentary XY CHELSEA on Friday, June 7 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Directed by Tim Travers Hawkins, and produced by Pulse Films, XY CHELSEA tells the historic story of whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, whose 35-year sentence in a maximum security prison was commuted by Presid...
VIDEO: HBO Shares ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED Trailer
by Michael Major - February 27, 2023 ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED is an epic, emotional, and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, groundbreaking photography, archival family snapshots and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sa...
Barbican Launches LIFE REWIRED: A Season Exploring What It Means To Be Human When Technology Is Changing Everything
by A.A. Cristi - September 27, 2018 The Barbican today launches Life Rewired, an arts and learning season running throughout 2019 exploring what it means to be human in the face of technological and scientific forces that are dizzying in their speed, scale and complexity....
Toronto International Film Festival announces TIFF Tribute Awards Gala
by Kaitlin Milligan - June 27, 2019 Joana Vicente and Cameron Bailey, Co-Heads of TIFF, today announced the TIFF Tribute Gala, an annual awards fundraiser to support TIFF's year-round programmes and core mission to transform the way people see the world through film, and to celebrate the film industry's outstanding contributors. The e...
Starz Acquires Unscripted Docuseries AMERICA TO ME from Filmmaker Steve James
by Caryn Robbins - January 22, 2018 Starz, a Lionsgate company (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B), today announced the premium cable network has acquired the unscripted 10-part docuseries AMERICA TO ME ,created by award-winning filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, Life Itself), and produced by Participant Media and Kartemquin Films...
Epix Announces Newest Documentary, THE PANAMA PAPERS
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 09, 2018 Premium network EPIX® has announced its latest original documentary for 2018, The Panama Papers, slated to premiere Monday, November 26 at 9 PM ET. From acclaimed director Alex Winter (Deep Web), Bungalow Media + Entertainment, Trouper Productions and Zipper Bros. Films, The Panama Papers details th...
HBO Acquires Worldwide Rights to Documentary FOSTER From Oscar Winners Deborah Oppenheimer Mark Jonathan Harris
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 23, 2018 HBO Documentary Films has acquired worldwide TV and streaming rights to Participant Media and Emerson Collective's documentary feature film FOSTER. Producer Deborah Oppenheimer and writer-director Mark Jonathan Harris (HBO's Oscar®-winning “Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport”...
NEON's Tom Quinn to receive Honorary Trailblazer Award at this year's Woodstock Film Festival
by Abigail Charpentier - February 19, 2020 The Woodstock Film Festival announced today that pioneering film distributor Tom Quinn, CEO and Founder of NEON, will be the recipient of the 2020 Honorary Trailblazer Award. Quinn was chosen for his commitment towards taking bold, creative risks through acquiring and distributing films that exist o...
The Academy Invites Leslie Odom Jr., Nathan Lane, George C. Wolfe & 392 More to Membership
by TV News Desk - July 01, 2021 There are 89 Oscar nominees, including 25 winners, among the invitees....
Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh to Produce the 93rd OSCARS
by Sarah Jae Leiber - December 08, 2020 Emmy®-nominated producer Jesse Collins, Oscar®-nominated producer Stacey Sher and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh will produce the 93rd Oscars®, Academy President David Rubin announced today. ...
Sundance Institute Announces 2019 New Frontier Story Lab Fellows
by Kaitlin Milligan - May 16, 2019 Sundance Institute announces six projects selected for the 2019 Sundance Institute New Frontier Story Lab, which supports independent artists working at the cutting-edge convergence of film, art, media, live performance and technology. The New Frontier Story Lab is a week-long immersive experience ...
2018 Tribeca Film Festival Shares Anniversary Films and Tribeca Talks Announcement
by Tori Hartshorn - March 19, 2018 Epic reunions and not-to-be-missed intimate conversations will take center stage during the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T, running April 18-29. Tribeca will celebrate the anniversaries of Schindler's List, Scarface, and In the Soup, bringing three classics back to the big scre... |