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Leading UK documentary event Sheffield Doc/Fest has named former London and Sydney film festival director Clare Stewart as interim CEO. Stewart will steer the fest through its 2022 edition, which will run June 23-28. In addition, Oscar-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia has been named guest curator for next year, the…

Fifty years ago at this time, the world was just beginning to absorb the impact of Marvin Gaye's seminal concept album What's Going On. The LP, released on May 21, 1971, told a story in music from the point of view of a Vietnam veteran returning to an America beset by poverty, injustice and ecological crisis. In a…

EXCLUSIVE: Asif Kapadia has signed with Cinetic Media for management in all areas. The Academy Award, BAFTA and Grammy-winning director-producer is best known for his innovative trilogy of narratively driven, archive-constructed documentaries, Senna, Amy and Diego Maradona. Following its world premiere at the 2015…

1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, an eight-part docuseries from the team behind the Oscar-winning documentary film Amy, is heading to Apple TV+ Executive produced by Oscar, BAFTA and Grammy winners Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna) and James Gay-Rees (Amy, Senna) the docuseries will explore the musicians and…

Six years ago I wrote a piece titled “All White At The Top,” asking why the UK film industry was painfully bereft of Black, Asian and minority ethnic executives. I drew up a list of more than 75 leading companies in production, sales, exhibition, distribution, post-production, public and private finance, VFX, talent…

Diego Maradona, the third film from Asif Kapadia after his 2016 Oscar winner Amy and Senna, hits U.S. theaters in New York and Los Angeles on September 20 before HBO premieres it October 1. The premium network picked up the rights to the feature-length documentary about the Argentina football legend — whose on-field…

Completing the third part of an unexpected trilogy delving into the darker side of fame, Asif Kapadia’s Diego Maradona premiered last night on the Croisette, even if its subject, in ill health, couldn’t make it into Cannes. That Maradona is alive at all—that he has lived long enough to find his second —might be the…

Asif Kapadia has directed two incredibly compelling documentaries about the lives—and untimely deaths—of Ayrton Senna and Amy Winehouse. He returns to Cannes to complete the third part of his unique trilogy with Diego Maradona, this time detailing the brilliant and troubled life of the still very much alive soccer…

Amazon is going global in a big way with the launch of 20 new and returning international series including titles from the likes of Amy director Asif Kapadia as well as a Japanese version of The Bachelorette. It has ordered a raft of scripted and non-scripted titles from Germany, Italy, Spain, India, Japan and Mexico…

Amazon Prime Video has scored a documentary about Liverpool's Steven Gerrard, widely considered one of the greatest footballers of his generation and who almost singlehandedly won Liverpool the Champions League in 2005. The film, Make Us Dream, is produced by Amy and Senna producer James Gay-Rees and is the definitive…

Amy Oscar winners James Gay-Rees and Asif Kapadia are executive producing a new BBC One documentary series about the 1993 murder of 18-year-old black student, Stephen Lawrence, by a group of white teenage boys. On the 25th anniversary of the murder, the three-part series will look at the events of the past quarter…

IFC Films has fallen hard for Oscar winner Asif Kapadia’s epic love story, Ali & Nino, with the company taking North American rights. This follows the film’s January premiere at Sundance. IM Global and CAA handled the sale. The adaptation of the best-selling novel by Kurban Said was scripted by Oscar winner…