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
Writer-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)
The 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
TheWrap 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
Documentarian 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
With 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)
TheWrap 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
“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
TheWrap 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
Joshua 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
The 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’
The 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
The 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
”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
Two-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
Red Sox fans probably won’t want to watch this
