
documentary
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How ‘Dear Mr. Brody’ Filmmakers Used Thousands of Letters to Recount a Hippie Millionaire’s Quest to Give Away His Inheritance
By Harper Lambert | March 9, 2022 @ 12:09 PMWriter-director Keith Maitland and producer Melissa Robyn Glassman tell TheWrap about bringing the wild true story to the screen
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Watch a Female Mountaineer Make History in ‘Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest’ Trailer (Exclusive Video)
By Joe McGovern | February 25, 2022 @ 9:00 AMThe story of Nepalese trailblazer Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, who summited the world’s highest peak in 1993, is told in a new documentary
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What ‘Ascension’ Director Learned Filming Inside Chinese Factories Making Sex Dolls and Trump MAGA Merch
By Joe McGovern | December 6, 2021 @ 5:30 AMTheWrap magazine: “At one of the more disturbing locations, the workers appeared the most relaxed,” documentary filmmaker Jessica Kingdon says
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‘Torn’ Film Review: Filmmaker Explores His Mountain-Climbing Father, Who Preferred Adventure to Family Life
By William Bibbiani | December 3, 2021 @ 9:24 AMDocumentarian Max Lowe tells the story of his dad Alex, both as a legendary mountaineer and as an absence that affected the man’s three sons
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Oscars Documentary Race Gets Only 138 Entries – 100 Fewer Than Last Year
By Steve Pond | November 26, 2021 @ 10:15 AMWith COVID-era eligibility rules tightened up and film production down, this year’s field will be the smallest since 2015
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‘Citizen Ashe’ Directors Explain Why Tennis Great Arthur Ashe Did Activism ‘His Way’ (Video)
By Brian Welk | November 17, 2021 @ 2:01 PMTheWrap Screening Series: ”He had to find the balance,“ Sam Pollard says about Ashe
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‘Pride’ and Joy: How the FX Docuseries Examines LGBTQ+ Life Through the Decades
By Jason Clark | June 18, 2021 @ 5:14 PM“There were many times that I got emotional and cried [at work],” editor Rosella Tursi says
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Why ‘City So Real’ Docu-Series Director Steve James Went Back to Chicago to Shoot One More Episode in 2020
By Jason Clark | June 15, 2021 @ 10:01 AMTheWrap magazine: ”Television needs to play a role in connecting people more to the world we live in,“ the award-winning filmmaker says
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TCM to Lead Search for Orson Welles’ Lost Cut of ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ for Documentary
By Brian Welk | April 13, 2021 @ 10:09 AMJoshua Grossberg will travel to Brazil and direct the film in the hopes of restoring the director’s 1942 maligned masterpiece
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Did Ernest Hemingway Succumb to CTE? PBS Doc Explores His Ill-Fated Concussions
By Jeremy Bailey | April 9, 2021 @ 9:16 PMThe great American novelist died more than 40 years before the discovery of the degenerative brain disease
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HBO’s Tina Turner Doc Reveals a Top Capitol Records Exec Called Her ‘an Old N– Douchebag’
By Andrea Towers | March 29, 2021 @ 10:39 AMThe quote came during an apparent exchange in 1982-83 after new management took over the label
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HBO to Debut 2000 Presidential Election Doc ‘537 Votes’ on Oct. 21
By Trey Williams | September 18, 2020 @ 10:00 AMThe film chronicles the political machinations that led to the unprecedented, contested outcome of the 2000 presidential election
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How ‘Black Boys’ Director Confronted ‘Pervasive’ White Fear, Including Her Own, in Doc About Black Men
By Trey Williams | September 11, 2020 @ 9:37 AM”Even I had to look in the mirror and say, like, ‘Am I afraid of Black men?’ And the answer was, honestly, yeah, a little bit,“ director Sonia Lowman says
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Judd Apatow to Direct Documentary on George Carlin for HBO
By Tim Baysinger | August 10, 2020 @ 10:19 AMTwo-part film will feature material from legendary comedian’s personal archive
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ESPN Teams With Jimmy Kimmel for Multi-Part ’30 for 30’ Doc on ’86 Mets
By Tim Baysinger | July 9, 2020 @ 8:56 AMRed Sox fans probably won’t want to watch this