Michael Moore has released Planet of the Humans, a documentary directed by filmmaker and environmentalist Jeff Gibbs and executive produced by Moore, for free on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The film, which initially screened at the Traverse City Film Festival in August, is making its world premiere…
A sport starved America showed up in droves last night for the debut of The Last Danceto see Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls aim for their sixth NBA championship over 20 years ago.
Leaving Oscar winner?O.J.: Made in America in the dust, the opening two episodes of the 10-episode docuseries of the Bulls'…
The filmmakers behind this year’s Slamdance documentary Ask No Questions saw their film’s festival run waylaid this spring by the industry’s coronavirus shutdown. Now they are teaming with San Francisco's DocFest, where the pic was headed next, in an effort bring the fest screening experience to audiences in their…
“When people think of plagues, they think of me,” jokes David France. Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, the director of 2012’s Oscar-nominated documentary How To Survive A Plague has seen an uptick in media requests, the title of his most known work all but an engraved invitation. The film chronicles the…
Netflix has made a selection of its documentary programming available for free via its YouTube channel in an effort to help teachers coping with the challenge of COVID-19.
In a blog post Friday, the company noted that it has historically allowed teachers to screen documentaries without a license fee. With many…
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights, excluding domestic television, to the upcoming Julia Child documentary from Oscar-nominated?filmmakers?Julie?Cohen?and?Betsy West (RBG).
Under the working title Julia, the film is currently in production, and is being produced by West, Cohen and Imagine…
The directors of two of this year's Oscar-nominated documentaries are among a group of filmmakers to sign up for #StayHomeWatchTogether, a two-week program of online screenings, Q&As and discussions aiming to highlight global issues.
Running April 14-April 30, the films will be available through a selection of TVOD…
Craig Gilbert, a documentarian whose candid and controversial 1973 PBS series An American Family would later be credited as a forerunner of reality TV (to his chagrin), died April 10 in New York City following a brief illness. He was 94.
The director’s death was announced on his official website and confirmed by…
EXCLUSIVE: Get ready to don your Versace (pronounced Ver-sayce) and dine on brown rice and vegetables because Jeffrey McHale’s Showgirls documentary?You Don’t Nomi is coming. RLJE Films, which is part of AMC Networks, has acquired the U.S. You Don’t Nomi and is set to release the film in theaters and VOD in June…
If the world were normal, the opening of the 21st Coachella Music & Arts Festival would be taking place today at noon.
For reasons everyone knows, that won’t happen until at least October, presuming health conditions permit. But while there’s no communal experience to be had this April, fans of the festival can…
EXCLUSIVE: NBA star and Unanimous Media co-founder Stephen Curry and Euphoria actress Storm Reid have teamed up for Bamazing, a new series of short films celebrating women in sports created by female filmmakers.
Curry and Reid kicked off the series by hosting a pitch session with rising female creatives. Emerging…
