documentaries

Wrap Video: Nev Schulman from 'Catfish'

Awards
 December 17, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

Star of the controversial documentary "Catfish" on reality, Facebook and an acting career

  

PGA Documentary Nominees a Serious Matter

Awards
 December 3, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

Producers Guild nominates a lineup of issue-oriented documentaries, snubs "Exit Through the Gift Shop"

  

Good Morning Oscar, November 24: Doc Talk

Awards | Oscars
 November 24, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

Documentaries get a boost from Sundance, and aim for a bigger boost from the Academy

  

Yves Saint Laurent Gets U.S. Pickup by IFC Films

Deal Central | Movies
 November 23, 2010 By Josh Dickey 2 years ago

Fashion icon's life and love told through the auction of his private art collection

  

'Gift Shop,' 'Inside Job' Make Oscar Doc Shortlist

Awards | Oscars
 November 18, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

List of 15 films omits high-profile docs "Catfish," "Babies" and "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work"

  

Good Morning Oscar, November 18: Mr. Congeniality

Awards | Oscars
 November 18, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

Geoffrey Rush charms, and Christian Bale doesn’t

  

'Inside Job's' Ferguson: A Quiet Revolution by the Wealthy & Wall St.

Movies
 November 16, 2010 By Jordan Riefe 2 years ago

Behind our economic woes is a bigger issue that cuts right to the root of democracy, Charles Ferguson told a sold-out crowd at TheWrap's Screening Series

  

Cinema Eye Honors Docs 'Last Train Home,' 'Armadillo,' 'Exit Through the Gift Shop'

Awards | Oscars
 November 4, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

Fourth year of documentary awards also nominates "The Oath" and "Marwencol," but bypasses "Waiting for 'Superman'" in juried categories

  

Doc Awards Go to Online Viewing, Voting

Awards | Oscars
 October 26, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

Hot-button topic, which the Oscars may need to implement someday, adopted by International Documentary Association

  

DOC NYC Showcases Another Bruce Springsteen Film

Awards
 October 19, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

New York fest adds "Darkness on the Edge of Town" performance film, other new documentaries

  

Hollywood Cashes In on Mine-Rescue Mania

Movies
 October 14, 2010 By Hunter Walker 2 years ago

One reality show and two documentaries shows may just be the exploitative beginning, as story-tellers dig in on the Chilean rescue

  

Oscar Doc Shortlist Serious & Issue-Oriented, as Always

Awards | Oscars
 October 13, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

List of 8 contenders includes docs on suicide bombings, campus shootings and Robert Kennedy

  

Davis Guggenheim: An Inconvenient Truth About Our Schools

Movies
 September 25, 2010 By Jordan Riefe 2 years ago

The documentary director's new "Waiting for Superman" on unions vs. non-unions, witch hunts and Obama's push for charter schools

  

SnagFilms Joins Starbucks' Upcoming Digital Channel

Media | Movies
 September 21, 2010 By Josh Dickey 2 years ago

Snagfilms documentaries will be available to Starbucks wifi users when its digital network launches later this fall

  

Docu-Mania at TIFF: On Cave Paintings, Dog-Cloning and Sex & Chains

Movies
 September 17, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

Up close video chats with two of the fest's most playful filmmakers -- Werner Herzog and Errol Morris

  

Director Henry Joost: The True Story Behind 'Catfish'

Movies
 September 16, 2010 By Henry Joost 2 years ago

HOLLYBLOG: Everyone was entranced by the paintings, the story, the daily drama -- we followed it like a soap opera, until one day the story changed

  

Why Documentaries Matter: A Social Good and Good Teaching Tool

Movies
 September 15, 2010 By Steve Ujlaki 2 years ago

The best documentaries illuminate a person, an event or an issue in powerful ways

  

Tribeca Taking Applications for Filmmaker Grants

Movies
 September 15, 2010 By William Yelles 2 years ago

TFI will award more than $500,000 in filmmaker support through 2011

  

Review: Joaquin Phoenix's Docu-Hoax Isn't Worth All His Navel-Gazing

Movies
 September 9, 2010 By Leah Rozen 2 years ago

The ruse would make Andy Kaufman proud, but director Casey Affleck leaves the cameras on too long

  

HBO Acquires Martin Scorsese Doc 'Public Speaking'

Television
 September 7, 2010 By Hunter Walker 2 years ago

PBS picks up director's 'A Letter to Elia' to air as part of American Master's series

  

Oscar Doc Deadline Nears

Awards | Oscars
 August 26, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

One of the strongest fields in years will submit paperwork by Sept.1

  

Education Documentary Draws 40,000 Pledges

Movies
 August 23, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

"Waiting for 'Superman'" pledges trigger donation of school supplies from OfficeMax

  

Grilled: 'Tillman Story' Director Amir Bar-Lev

Movies
 August 19, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

Filmmaker talks about life, death, mythology and the coverup that continues to this day

  

TCA: News From the HBO Exec Session

Television
 August 7, 2010 By Hunter Walker 2 years ago

Highlights from HBO's presentation at the annual TCA summer press tour

  

Surprising Poetry Doc Highlights DocuWeeks' Round 2

Movies
 August 6, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

"Louder than a Bomb" uses familiar ingredients, but it's fresh and vital and exhilirating

  

A&E Gets Busy: Tony Danza, Doug Liman, 'Scared Straight 2'

Television
 August 6, 2010 By Hunter Walker 2 years ago

Arnold Shapiro back for jail doc; 'Bourne Identity' producer Liman in for pilot on the paranormal

  
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