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In January, Ryan Flynn’s documentary “You’re No Indian” was abruptly removed from the 2025 Palm Springs Film Festival lineup because of “scheduling errors.” Six months later, the film,…
WARNING: This story contains spoilers for “America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders” Season 2. For decades, conventional wisdom has dissuaded workers from discussing their…
Over the weekend, just blocks away from President Trump’s June 14 military parade in Washington, D.C., the third annual DC/DOX got underway. The four-day documentary film festival kicked…
Emmy-winning writer, producer and actor Lena Waithe has signed on to executive produce the documentary feature “Move Ya Body: The Birth of House” from filmmaker Elegance Bratton. The film…
After watching Alexander Hammer’s “Expecting Amy,” a 2020 docuseries about Amy Schumer‘s difficult pregnancy, Jenn Freeman’s life changed. In the series, Schumer’s husband, Chris Fischer,…
In the Netflix documentary “Titan: The OceanGate Disaster,” director Mark Monroe examines the circumstances surrounding the fatal 2023 submersible disaster. The vessel’s implosion, which…
In 2019, Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, and Rob Grobman began filming “We Are Guardians,” a documentary about Indigenous forest guardians fighting to protect their ancestral lands from…
Java Films, a leading global documentary sales company based in Paris, France, has acquired world rights, excluding the countries of co-production (Ukraine, France and Belgium), as well as…
In the documentary “Can’t Look Away,” directors Matthew O’Neill and Perri Peltz expose the dark side of social media and the tragic impact Big Tech company algorithms can have on children…
On the morning of September 28, 1982, Mary Kellerman, a 12-year-old Chicago resident, was given a Tylenol tablet by her parents in response to complaints of a sore throat. A few hours…
Readying for its 22nd edition, Polish fest Millennium Docs Against Gravity isn’t shying away from politically charged content, opening with “Coexistence, My Ass!” Its protagonist,…
An exclusive clip of Chechen documentary “Imago,” directed by Déni Oumar Pitsaev, is being debuted by Variety. The film, which is sold worldwide by Rediance and will be released by New…
Given the risk-averse economics of the current documentary business, it has become hard for audiences to find a place to see some of the most acclaimed docs out of film festivals,…
Sales agent Square Eyes has acquired worldwide rights to the Ukrainian feature documentary “Militantropos,” directed by Alina Gorlova (“This Rain Will Never Stop”), Yelizaveta Smith…
Running five minutes longer than “Wicked” — and still nearly an hour below “The Brutalist” — the “2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary” package makes for a heavy evening at the…
Oscar winner James Cameron has signed on to executive produce “There Is Another Way,” a 67-minute documentary about a grassroots group of Palestinians and Israelis working together through…
Not many people can say they’ve been kicked out of a locker room at the Olympics or have made NBA superstar Kevin Durant cry, but director Jake Rogal got an all-access pass to the Paris…
During a recent appearance on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” Will Ferrell playfully told Oscar documentary branch voters to “suck it” for snubbing “Will & Harper” in the best doc…
Stephen Curry is officially teaming up with Comcast to tell the true story of the underdog cheer team that made history, Variety has exclusively learned. Curry and Erick Peyton are…
Autlook Filmsales has acquired “Cutting Through Rocks,” winner of the Grand Jury Prize of the World Cinema Documentary Competition section at Sundance Film Festival. Autlook will host a…
Barcelona-based sales agency Jambika Docs has acquired the documentary feature “Noah” ahead of the European Film Market in Berlin. “Noah” will have a limited theatrical release in Spain…
Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Festival has unveiled the International Competition lineup for its 27th edition, which runs March 6-16. The selection includes three films that had their…
Alex Ross Perry revealed an unexpected inspiration for “Pavements,” his experimental musical biopic concert film about the American indie band Pavement: Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning…
Tommy Gulliksen’s documentary “Facing War,” which depicts Jens Stoltenberg’s final year as NATO secretary general, has been selected as the opening film of the Copenhagen Intl. Documentary…
