UPDATED with video: The pressure was on when directors Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine set about making Boys State, their film documenting an annual exercise in Texas that gives high school boys the chance to practice democracy in action.
Why? The program lasts just six days.
"We’re used to shooting documentaries over…
Winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and recently taking Best Political Documentary at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards, the Apple and A24 Films release Boys State came to Deadline’s For the Love of Docs series Tuesday night as I moderated a conversation with…
Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art Thursday announced a virtual return of the 49th annual New Directors/New Films festival rescheduled from last March to December 9-20.
The 50-year old fest's 2020 lineup of 24 features and 10 shorts will be available to audiences nationwide for the first time…
The American Film Institute’s annual documentary film festival will be online this year, the latest event to be reimagined in the face of the coronavirus crisis, and it will open with the project Boys State.Â
The festival will run from June 17 to 21, and films will be available to view on DOCS.AFI.com. The festival…
Apple said Wednesday that it has pulled out of attending SXSW, the film, TV, music and tech festival that is due to kick off next week in Austin. The move, which Deadline has confirmed, includes exits for the premieres of Apple originals like Spike Jonze’s documentary Beastie Boys Story.
Apple joins fellow tech…
Apple and A24 have acquired all global rights for Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s documentary Boys State. A report said it went for $10 million, however, we learned Boys State actually went for $12M, which makes it a sales record for a documentary out of Sundance. The previous documentary sales record at $10M was…
