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When the documentary Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) sold for a record $12 million+ out of Sundance, it was just the latest piece of good news in a breakthrough year for production house Concordia Studio. The company, founded in 2017 by Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim and Laurene Powell…

Oscar-winning director of An Inconvenient Truth Davis Guggenheim and former Participant exec Jonathan King have teamed with Laurene Powell Jobs and Emerson Collective to launch Concordia Studio. The new company will focus on creating innovative nonfiction and scripted films, series, and streaming content. The new…

The first trailer for Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates opens with the Microsoft icon giving rapid-fire answers to questions about his favorite animal and food and what he eats for breakfast. Then comes, “What is your worst fear?” After a couple of beats, he replies, “I don’t want my brain to stop working.” The…

Netflix has announced a new docuseries about Microsoft founder Bill Gates from Oscar-winner Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, He Named Me Malala). The three-part series, Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates explores the mind and motivations of the tech visionary, business leader and philanthropist. It’s set…

“It's time to fight like your world depends on it.” That’s the tagline for An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, the follow-up to Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim’s Oscar-winning 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth. And now, if you’ll boot up your PowerPoint, we have the first trailer. It starts with — who else? — Don…

Paramount and Participant Media celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Oscar-winning landmark documentary An Inconvenient Truth last night with a party at SmogShoppe that featured its star, former Vice President Al Gore. The several other notable guests including its director Davis Guggenheim, Norman Lear, Ed Begley…

Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting For 'Superman') gets personal with his latest award-winning documentary, He Named Me Malala, based on the book 'I Am Malala' by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb. The doc tells the story of Malala Yousafzai, a young girl in Pakistan's…

Among the documentaries emerging from the Telluride and Toronto film festivals with the most attention, Davis Guggenheim's He Named Me Malala follows its director's apparent pattern of seeking to shine a fresh light on topics that dominate the headlines. The 18-year-old Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafzai…

UPDATED, 2:25: Fox Searchlight said today that it will open Davis Guggenheim’s documentary He Named Me Malala on October 2 in select theaters. PREVIOUSLY, March 30: Fox’s specialty arm acquired worldwide rights minus France and other French-speaking territories to He Named Me Malala, according to a statement from Fox…

Just in time for back-to-school, the two-hour special Teach, which looks at the American education system through the eyes of teachers, will premiere at 8 PM September 6 on CBS. Directed by Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), the documentary asks the question, “What does it take to be a teacher?&#8221…

The film that Tom Hanks and Davis Guggenheim made for Barack Obama's reelection campaign earlier this year was played at the DNC tonight. Actually it was an edited version of The Road We've Traveled that the delegates in Charlotte saw. Trimmed down from its original 17-minutes to 7-minutes, the wide ranging video that…

Hollywood and Washington come together in director Davis Guggenheim‘s The Road We’ve Traveled, a 17-minute video for President Obama narrated by Tom Hanks. The president’s campaign committee teased the production last week, and posted it on YouTube last night. The theme: Facing a collapsing economy and overseas wars:…