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Poland’s Millennium Docs Against Gravity, the documentary film festival that takes place simultaneously across seven Polish cities, returns for its 23rd edition from May 7 – 17 with a…
London-based MetFilm Sales has acquired Mongolian filmmaker Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig’s debut feature documentary “Colors of White Rock” for worldwide sales representation. The film will…
MetFilm Sales has acquired international sales rights to Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić’s feature documentary “To Hold a Mountain,” which recently received its world premiere at the…
The documentary “Mariinka,” directed by Belgian filmmaker Pieter-Jan De Pue, has been selected as the opening film of the 23rd edition of CPH:DOX, also known as the Copenhagen Intl.…
Tennis icon and legend Billie Jean King has had documentaries, articles and even a movie, “Battle of the Sexes,” tell her story. “Give Me the Ball,” which premieres Monday at the Sundance…
Icarus Films has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to documentary “Do You Love Me,” the feature debut by Lana Daher, ahead of the film’s U.S. premiere at SXSW in March.…
This year’s edition of CPH:DOX’s financing and co-production event CPH:Forum, which runs March 17-19, will showcase projects by 101 directors and producers representing 23 countries, who…
A new feature-length documentary “Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA” is set to premiere later this year from director and producer Kevin Schreck. The project was unveiled at…
The way we see it, there’s a yin and yang to documentaries. They’ve always had the potential to be deadly serious — now maybe more than ever, as a world awash in chaos spotlights such…
Veteran documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner and her wife, Morgan Doctor, were working on a film in Budapest when they got a phone call informing them their home in the Los Angeles…
“Revolutionaries Never Die” was the winner of the top award at this year’s Cairo Film Connection, the industry program of the Cairo Film Festival. Variety interviewed the Palestinian…
Portuguese documentary filmmaker Susana de Sousa Dias, who is the guest of honor at IDFA, spoke to the festival’s artistic director Isabel Arrate Fernandez this week about how she set out…
Two Iranian films have been crowned the main winners of the 38th edition of IDFA, with Mehrdad Oskouei’s “A Fox Under a Pink Moon” taking Best Film in the International Competition and…
Forum, the prestigious industry section of leading documentary festival IDFA, crowned Hao Zhou’s “All Fixed Up” as Best Pitch Project, with Kiva Liu’s “Four Comrades, One Echo” winning…
For the past two decades, filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi (“Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness”) has captured his two nieces growing up on camera. As the years pile up, the little girls go from…
Franco-Egyptian filmmaker Namir Abdel Messeeh’s “Life After Siham” is screening in the Special Screenings section of the Cairo Intl. Film Festival, on Nov. 19 and Nov. 20, having…
As Forum, the industry program of documentary festival IDFA, launches today, Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen, the festival’s head of industry, and its artistic director Isabel Arrate Fernandez,…
This year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), taking place in the Dutch city between Nov. 13-23, will open with a short documentary selection as a way of…
One day, almost a decade ago, Argentinian filmmaker María Silvia Esteve (“Silvia”) turned on the television and saw a woman talk about her fight for justice against the priest who sexually…
At the beginning of the year, Selin Murat left her role as markets manager at IDFA to take on the position of executive director of the IDFA Bertha Fund. She stepped into big shoes, taking…
In December 2019, one of Britain’s most successful television hosts, Caroline Flack, became the target of relentless media scrutiny after allegedly assaulting her boyfriend, tennis player…
Taskovski Films has picked up sales rights to documentary “Paikar,” the debut feature by Afghan-Dutch filmmaker Dawood Hilmandi, which will world premiere at IDFA in the Luminous section.…
It’s been a stressful year for Firelight Media, the nonprofit that supports documentary filmmakers of color. In September, the company lost 41% of its annual funding when monies provided…
International documentary sales, distribution and production company Dogwoof has acquired international sales rights for “The Face of Power,” directed by Emmy and Grierson-winning…
