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PBS Distribution will launch PBS Documentaries, a subscription channel on Amazon's Prime Video with 900 hours of content from Ken Burns' entire oeuvre to Nova, Frontline, American Masters, American Experience, Nature, Independent Lens and POV. The channel — which goes live August 4 for $3.99 a month with an Amazon Pri…

EXCLUSIVE: ITN Productions, the television production arm of UK news producer ITN, enjoyed a record-breaking year in 2019 as it delivered Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning Channel 4/PBS documentary For Sama. ITN’s earnings for the 12 months to the end of December 2019, revealed that ITN Productions’ revenue jumped 20%…

Renowned British news producer ITN is furloughing around 20 employees and its CEO Anna Mallett is taking a 20% pay cut amid the coronavirus pandemic. ITN produces news for ITV, Channel 4 and ViacomCBS-owned Channel 5, while production unit ITN Productions is responsible for documentaries including the Oscar-nominated F…

The directors of two of this year's Oscar-nominated documentaries are among a group of filmmakers to sign up for #StayHomeWatchTogether, a two-week program of online screenings, Q&As and discussions aiming to highlight global issues. Running April 14-April 30, the films will be available through a selection of TVOD…

When the Oscar nominations were announced earlier this month, two documentaries about Syria made it through: Feras Fayyad's The Cave, about a courageous woman doctor running a subterranean hospital outside Damascus, and For Sama, directed by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts, the story of Al-Kateab's effort to raise her…

While an all-male list of director contenders and a mostly white actors roster caught the eye of the diversity-conscious on Oscar nominations day, another blip signaled deep change within the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. That is, four out of five documentary feature nominees—The Cave, The Edge Of Democr…

Despite this morning’s BAFTA noms diversity furor, there are some silver linings concerning inclusion. Syrian war documentary For Sama, from Syrian director Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, has become BAFTA’s most-nominated feature documentary, the organization has said. The film is nominated in four categories…

Today's BAFTA nominations somewhat predictably reinforced the fact that female filmmakers are struggling to get major awards traction this year. It was another round of shutouts for women in the Best Director field, following the Golden Globes where the exact same quintet of Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Sam…

When the Academy announced its shortlist of 15 feature documentaries still in contention for the Oscars, one title on it was no surprise: For Sama, directed by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts. It is the single-most honored nonfiction film of the year, winning dozens of prizes at film festivals across the globe from…

BAFTA has revealed the shortlisted films in the Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer category. Lauded documentary For Sama and gang drama Blue Story make the cut. Scroll down for the full list. The award was previously known as the Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Writer…

For Sama, Waad al-Kateab’s striking documentary about the start of the protests against the Assad regime in Syria, won the Best Feature prize at the International Documentary Association’s IDA Awards. Al-Kateab shot hundreds of hours of footage over a course of the five-year siege that offered an unflinching view of…

Documentary For Sama, the intimate and scarring portrait of a young mother's experience of the Syrian civil war, has scored Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Documentary at the 2019 British Independent Film Awards ceremony in London. Scroll down for a full list of winners. The film’s three awards…