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Following last weekend’s Governors Awards, we now have another sign that Oscar season is moving into high gear with the release of official qualified entries named today by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for consideration in Animated…

EXCLUSIVE: Syndicado Film Sales is getting a new name, a new head of sales and acquisitions and – importantly – a new mission. The Toronto-based company is rebranding as Verità Films, "marking a renewed focus on representing documentaries for global sales and distribution." While Sydicado Film…

Filmmakers from Iran won the top prizes as International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s biggest nonfiction cinema festival, handed out its awards tonight. A Fox Under a Pink Moon, directed by Mehrdad Oskouei, was named Best Film in International Competition, an award that…

Paul Anka: His Way, the John Maggio-directed chronicle of the singer-songwriter behind such classics as “Times of Your Life,” “My Way” and Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show theme, has found a home beyond early fall's Toronto Film Festival bow. HBO acquired the docu and has set a December 1…

The man widely recognized as one of the world’s greatest race car designers is being profiled in a documentary feature from Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Artists Equity, Whisper Group and Mark Stewart Productions (MSP). Turbulence: The Greatest Mind in Formula One [working title] will follow…

UPDATED with latest: The Emmys are history, and film awards season is taking shape — time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows and nominations dates ahead. Check back often for updates. November 24: International Emmy Awards December 1…

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh can get just about any source to talk. Sometimes they do it willingly, perhaps to advance their own interests; other times, they might need a bit of coaxing with the help of Hersh's celebrated charm and gift of gab. But turn the tables…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki harbors no doubt about who came out the victor in the protracted legal battle between the U.S. government and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. He says Assange prevailed over the most powerful country in the world. In Jarecki's Oscar-contending documentary Th…

International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) announced its coveted Forum Awards today, giving valuable recognition – and a monetary prize – to several documentary projects at various stages of development. The IDFA Forum Award for Best Pitch went to All Fixed Up by Hao Zhou. "The…

Happiness is still possible, even in the midst of chaos and uncertainty, the Dalai Lama asserts in the new documentary Wisdom of Happiness. Among those who affirm that hopeful message is Richard Gere, one of the film's executive producers, who has known the Tibetan spiritual leader for…

Projects about the devastating conflict in Israel and Palestine won big at tonight’s prestigious Grierson British Documentary Awards in London. Oscar-winner No Other Land took home the Best Single Documentary – International prize while the BBC’s Life and Death in Gaza won Best Current Affairs…

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Dae Kim and CNN are getting under the skin of the global Korean pop culture movement. The actor-producer will front K-Everything, a four-part CNN travel series in which he will go on a quest to discover how South Korea has sparked a global pop culture movement, driving trends…