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The hustle of show business means people not-infrequently have two projects hitting the market at the same time. Even so, filmmaker Nick Davis is the creative force behind one of the more unusual doubleheaders in recent memory. He directed ESPN “30 for 30” limited series Once Upon a Time in Queens, an account of the…

Alanis Morissette has torn into the documentary about her landmark Jagged Little Pill album that's set to world premiere Tuesday night at the Toronto Film Festival. On a short break in her tour with Garbage and Cat Power, the Canadian-born Morissette shed more light on her absence from today’s Roy Thomson Hall debut…

Sean Bean is to lend his voice to a natural history documentary about Osprey. The Game of Thrones star is narrating Osprey: Sea Raptor, a one-hour doc for wildlife brand Love Nature that will also and Sky in the UK. The film, which is produced by Love Nature and CosmoVision Media Group, tells the true story of a pair…

Rebeca "Beba" Huntt self-reflects on her upbringing and lingering generational trauma in her debut documentary film Beba which premiered at TIFF this weekend. Shot over eight years, Huntt opens up her world to show the tragedy and triumphs of her home life. Beba is also a New York story. As the audience views the…

Two years and four months after MTV launched the MTV Documentary Films division headed by Sheila Nevins, the former longtime president of HBO Documentary Films, the unit landed its first Emmy Award with 76 Days.  The film, produced by Hao Wu and Jean Tsien, on Sunday during the Creative Arts Emmys won the Exceptional…

Singer/actress Alanis Morissette said she was raped by multiple men when she was a 15-year-old Canadian pop star in a new documentary for HBO, reports the Washington Post. "It took me years in therapy to even admit there had been any kind of victimization on my part," the singer says in the documentary. "I would…

The team behind the Lifetime documentary series Surviving Jeffrey Epstein is turning its attention to the music industry. Anne Sundberg and Ricki Stern are taking on the Dorothy Carvello expose Anything for a Hit as their next project. Stern and Sundberg's Break Thru Films will team up on the documentary series…

Even if you have trouble with the idea of God, says veteran producer David Puttnam in Ennio, Giuseppe Tornatore's rapturous paean to his late collaborator Ennio Morricone, when you hear his music, "you can hear that there is something out there." By the standards of Ennio, the suggestion that God dwells in Morricone's…

Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over is an apt title for a documentary by David Heilbroner and Dave Wooley on the life of iconic singer and legend Dionne Warwick. She stands out from the other singing divas because her catalog is the most diverse. With her cross-genre appeal, her music touched all people…

EXCLUSIVE: Jacinta, a feature documentary about intergenerational trauma and addiction, has had an impressive festival run at such events as Doc NYC, AFI Fest and IDFA. The film, directed by Jessica Earnshaw, is now heading to Hulu. The streamer has picked up the feature doc, which comes from ABC News and Impact…

EXCLUSIVE: Broadway Rising, a feature length documentary on the reopening of Broadway, has started production, with director Amy Rice (HBO’s By the People: The Election of Barack Obama) producing along with, among others, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Tony-winning Oklahoma! producer Justin Mikita. The documentary will…

Amazon Studios said Tuesday that it will release Michael D. Ratner's Justin Bieber: Our World, a new documentary about the pop star, on Prime Video on October 8 in more more than 240 countries including the U.S. Ratner’s latest film was Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, the docu that served as the opening-night…