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Emmy-winning documentary specialists Alex Gibney and Blair Foster say their A&E series The Clinton Affair delved into a political scandal that seems just as timely and topical on ts 20-year anniversary as it did in real time in 1998. Moreover, the #metoo movement is an essential context for revisiting the scandal and…

When last seen (by me, anyway), Steven C. Barber had just decided to defer buying a Lexus. Instead, he invested his savings in a Variety "for your consideration" ad to boost his 2012 film Until They Are Home, about the recovery of military remains from the World War II battle of Tarawa. Barber still doesn't have that…

For no obvious reason, the reality mini-surge continues: By next weekend, at least three feature documentaries will have sold more tickets at the domestic box-office than any documentary without pandas that was released last year. The panda doc was Disney's Born In China, which took in $13.8 million after it opened in…

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences reveals its list of new invitees next month, shrewd observers will have an eye on the documentary branch. Lately, attention has fallen mostly on race and gender, as the Academy scrambles to reach its goal of doubling female and ethnic minority membership by 2020…

On proud display at a Toronto festival session with the documentarian Raoul Peck on Tuesday morning was the first requisite of any successful, old-school filmmaker: a healthy sense of self. "When I have people trust me with their money, I am obligated to give them a great film, I am not obligated to give them a…

Jim Jarmusch's documentary Gimme Danger, about Iggy and the Stooges, does not feel like it is Oscar-hunting. Sure, it might be somewhere in the awards race. But the film doesn't spend time on the kind of psycho-investigation (Amy) or human scavenger hunt (Searching For Sugarman) that can lead a music doc to the big…

As if the world needed yet another awards show, the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) is going ahead and giving it one. In association with its TV offshoot the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA), the national critics group will be honoring top achievements in Documentary Features and…

In what marks the fourth Sundance acquisition for the company, The Orchard has picked up North American distribution rights to director Michal Marczak's documentary All These Sleepless Nights which won the Festival’s year’s Directing Award in its World Cinema Documentary competition. The film chronicles two Warsaw…

Hamilton Fish, the black-sheep scion of a storied political dynasty, documentary filmmaker and progressive political activist, will take the reins of The New Republic as publisher and editorial director. The move comes as part of the latest shift in a dramatic series of upheavals at TNR, whose most recent owner, Chris…

NEW YORK (August 12, 2013) — Today, TIME launched Red Border Films, a new documentary film unit to be hosted on an interactive digital site on Time.com. Red Border Films will feature deeply reported original films by award-winning filmmakers, TIME journalists and photojournalists and will produce at least one short…

The 2013 Toronto International Film Festival has set its documentary program to start unspooling when the festival launches September 5. The subjects range from Donald Rumsfeld to Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione and the Congo. Here are the films: A Story Of Children And Film Mark Cousins, United Kingdom North…

EXCLUSIVE: 1500 youngsters from all over the globe compete each year in the World Championships of Junior Golf. Eight of the pint-sized competitors (including Allan Kournikova, Anna Kournikova’s 7-year-old brother) are the subjects of The Short Game, a SXSW 2013 documentary world premiere. Emmy-winning director Josh…