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EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 has greenlit 2024: The Year From Space, telling the story of major 2024 events via satellite images. Titled Earth: A Year in Orbit globally and narrated by Sherwood star Robert Lindsay, the show, which is being sold internationally by Fremantle, will present the year’s headlines…

This is the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December following a general election. That can only mean one thing — it's the day members of the Electoral College meet in their respective States to cast votes for president and vice president. If you did not know that, join the club. Very…

Black Box Diaries, Queendom and Instruments of a Beating Heart are among the films that got good news Tuesday, earning places on the coveted Oscar shortlists – Diaries and Queendom for Documentary Feature and Instruments for Documentary Short. At the 40th IDA Documentary Awards in Los Angeles a few…

Am I Racist?, the controversial documentary that satirizes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, failed to make the Oscar shortlist of nonfiction features today, despite earning more money at the box office than any other documentary this year, by far. The film directed by Justin Folk features…

Will & Harper, the Netflix documentary about comedic actor Will Ferrell and his friendship with SNL pal Harper Steele who came out as trans, earned a spot on the coveted Oscar documentary feature shortlist today. It wasn't the only shortlist honor for the film directed by Josh Greenbaum. The tune…

And they’re off. Awards season just got entirely official with the revealing of shortlists for the 97th Oscars in 10 categories today. See the lists from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences below. Fifteen movies each are moving forward in the contests for International Feature Film…

A previously undisclosed documentary about the Titan submersible disaster is in post-production, with producers aiming for a 2025 debut at film festivals "and distribution across major platforms." Dirty Dozen Productions, working in collaboration with RadicalMedia, is behind the project, which is…

EXCLUSIVE: Howzat! Angel City director Arlene Nelson is helming cricket doc Floodlight about the journey of a new Women’s Premier League (WPL) team in India. Floodlight follows the mix of seasoned and emerging Indian cricketers who play alongside world-class players for the UP Warriorz in India’s…

EXCLUSIVE: 011films and Ventureland are partnering on what promises to be the definitive documentary on undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk. We're told post-production is underway in Rome on the film directed and produced by Pablo Benedetti, who gained access to the Ukrainian…

Following the arrest of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson‘s suspected killer Luigi Mangione, Michael Moore has penned an open letter in response to Mangione’s manifesto, which reportedly mentions him. The Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker clarified, “yes, I condemn murder” as he noted a flood of…

One of this year's acclaimed Oscar-contending documentaries goes below the waves with a remarkable community of women free divers off the coast of South Korea. They're formally known as “haenyeo,” but sometimes referred to as "Korea's mermaids." Filmmaker Sue Kim's term for them: "A bad-ass girl…

EXCLUSIVE: Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the documentary October H8te, the explosive Oscar-contending film directed by Wendy Sachs. Briarcliff plans a theatrical release in the first quarter of 2025 for the film, which documents the sharp rise in antisemitism and…