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Belisa Balaban has been promoted to VP Original Documentaries. The streaming service has been ramping up its Hulu Original Documentary films slate with recent titles including Ask Dr. Ruth, The Amazing Johnathon and the Emmy-winning Crime + Punishment. Balaban joined Hulu in 2017 as Director of Original Content and…

Not much positive news tends to come out of Afghanistan, but a pocket of it shines through in one of this year's Oscar-nominated documentary shorts. Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl), directed by Carol Dysinger, reveals a school in Kabul called Skateistan that offers kids the chance to study the…

Superlatives swirl around Bruce Franks Jr., the focus of the Oscar-nominated short documentary St. Louis Superman. "I don’t know if I’ve ever met a human being quite as remarkable as Bruce, who just contains the sheer amount of talent but also this life force, this energy where just greatness seems to surround him,"…

While an all-male list of director contenders and a mostly white actors roster caught the eye of the diversity-conscious on Oscar nominations day, another blip signaled deep change within the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. That is, four out of five documentary feature nominees—The Cave, The Edge Of Democr…

UPDATED with full list of winners: The Producers Guild unveiled the year’s best in film and TV producing Saturday at the 31st annual PGA Awards at the Hollywood Palladium, with Universal’s 1917 taking the top film prize. It keeps the momentum going strong for Sam Mendes’ World War I epic, which is produced and…

The Producers Guild’s 31st annual PGA Awards on Saturday at the Hollywood Palladium was the firsts of the major guild gauntlets of the movie-awards season that includes Sunday night’s SAG Awards, followed by the DGAs and WGAs. The PGA named 1917 the winner of its marquee Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer…

On the heels of its Emmy-nominated Surviving R. Kelly and follow-up Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning, Lifetime has given an official green light to four-hour documentary Surviving Jeffrey Epstein, set for premiere this summer. The documentary, which hails from Emmy winner Robert Friedman’s Bungalow Media + Ent…

Lifetime has greenlit Ripped from the Headlines true-crime film, I Was Lorena Bobbitt, and the return of the series Smart Justice, hosted by Elizabeth Smart.C Lorena Bobbitt became a household name and made tabloid headlines when, after alleging years of abuse by her husband, she cut off his penis with a knife in…

NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has teamed with History on Black Patriots, a one-hour documentary chronicling the role of African Americans during the Revolutionary War. It’s set to premiere Wednesday, February 19 at 10 PM on History. It was announced today as part of History’s presentation at the TCA Winter Press…

Input from When They See Us film director Ava DuVernay was a factor in Oprah Winfrey’s process of deciding to withdraw as an executive producer from the Sundance Film Festival-bound documentary On the Record, according to Winfrey in an interview published Friday in the New York Times. Winfrey’s stunned filmmakers…

Apple has given a green light to Dear…., a new biographical docuseries inspired by its “Dear Apple” spots, from Emmy and Peabody Award-winner R.J. Cutler (The September Issue, Untitled Billie Eilish Documentary) and Matador Content. The series will premiere globally this spring on Apple TV+. Dear… takes an inventive…

When American Factory was announced on Monday as one of the five Oscar nominees for Best Documentary Feature, among the first to congratulate filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert were Barack and Michelle Obama. "Glad to see American Factory's Oscar nod for Best Documentary," the former president tweeted. "It's…