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Pre-production on the upcoming NBC/Blumhouse limited series The Thing About Pam, starring Renée Zellweger and Josh Duhamel, has been suspended, a rep for Blumhouse told Deadline. Based on a the real-life, stranger-than-fiction story behind the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria, the series has been in final stages of…

One of the most important institutions in documentary film is under new leadership. The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced the appointment Wednesday of Richard Ray "Rick" Perez as its new executive director, effective immediately. He replaces Simon Kilmurry, who had served as the IDA's executive…

The International Documentary Association has revealed the honorees for their 35th annual IDA Documentary Awards honorees. The ceremony is set for December 7 and will take place at the Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. Academy Award and Primetime Emmy winning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock (Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's a strong first teaser trailer for Venice buzz title Moffie from Ida producer Eric Abraham and director Oliver Hermanus (Skoonheid). Debuting in the festival's Horizons strand, the Afrikaans and English-language film centers on a young conscript in Apartheid South Africa whose task to survive his…

Paul Schrader and Ethan Hawke did not expect to be here. The writer/director and his actor are still talking about First Reformed, 18 months on from its premiere at Venice, as they receive nominations and awards to add to the mountains of critical praise the film has drawn. Its examination of a crisis of faith for a…

The International Documentary Association has announced the initial round of nominees for the 2017 IDA Documentary Awards. The 33rd annual event will take place December 9 at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles. The IDA will honor director Marcel Mettelsiefen's Watani: My Homeland with the Pare Lorentz Award, which…

Oscar-winning Ida helmer Pawel Pawlikowski has just begun production on his next film, Cold War. France’s MK2 Films and the UK’s Protagonist Pictures are teaming to handle worldwide sales on the drama and will introduce the project to buyers at the EFM this week. A Polish/French/UK co-production, it’s written by…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger has joined the International Documentary Association’s (IDA) board of directors. Said IDA Board President, Marjan Safinia in a statement: "Two years ago, at the inaugural Getting Real 2014 documentary conference, Joe Berlinger spoke movingly about the…

Ida is the first Foreign Language Oscar win for Poland, but the 10th time a film from the country has been nominated since 1963. Pawel Pawlikowski's intimate black-and-white drama itself had a long road to the podium tonight. It played Telluride all the way back in 2013, but missed the Oscar cutoff date that year, and…

Ida, about a novitiate nun who discovers a dark family secret, by Polish-British director Pawel Pawlikowski, is up for two Oscars this year: best foreign language film and best achievement in cinematography. Lukasz Zal, one of the two cinematographers on the shoot—who stepped in when director of photography Ryszard…

EXCLUSIVE: Pawel Pawlikowski's Oscar-nominated Ida was released over a year ago in Poland, but with the increased international spotlight on the film, a controversy has erupted in its native land. The Polish Anti-Defamation League, Reduta Dobrego Imienia, has accused the film of failing to acknowledge the German…

The Academy started with a record 83 submissions for the Foreign Language Oscar this year, whittling that down to a shortlist of nine in December. Today we are left with five nominees: Damián Szifrón's Wild Tales (Argentina); Zaza Urushadze's Tangerines (Estonia) Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu (Mauritania); Paweł…