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Clay Tweel has a reputation for exploring the lives of quirky and often marginalized people. Take, for example his 2015 film Finders Keepers–a documentary about two men fighting over a mummified leg found inside a grill (the leg was previously attached to one of the men). His latest project, Gleason, might seem at…

Documentary competition is stiff for the five available Oscar noms this year, with several of the strongest contenders breaking out of Sundance, setting the stage for a tense race as far back as January. Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg's Weiner (IFC) won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize at the festival—the film follows…

Pity the Film Academy's 300 or so certified documentarians. They are deep into the tiny meatball-slider part of their year, those taxing months when branch members are supposed to watch their allotted share of some 140 Oscar-qualified documentary feature films, while enjoying a few complimentary hors d'oeuvres, as…

With five nominations apiece, Netflix and  Ava DuVernay’s 13th, ESPN’s seven-hour O.J.: Made in America, and Amazon and Open Road’s Gleason lead the list of nominations for the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association’s inaugural Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, which…

The Exchange has acquired international sales rights to the Sundance documentary Gleason, and will introduce the film to international buyers at the Marché du Film in Cannes, according to Exchange CEO Brian O’Shea. Gleason, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and won the SXSW 2016 Festival Audience…

UPDATED: Amazon Studios and Open Road said today that Gleason will open on July 29 in North America. PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is closing a deal for all U.S. rights to Gleason, one of the most acclaimed documentaries to premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The docu focuses on Steve Gleason, a…

After being nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at last year’s Sundance Film Festival with their documentary Finders Keepers, director Clay Tweel and producer Seth Gordon are back this year with Gleason, a documentary about former New Orleans Saints NFL player Steve Gleason. On the field, Gleason made his mark with his…