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EXCLUSIVE: The Telluride Film Festival was expected to start next week on September 3 and play, as usual, all through the Labor Day weekend. Sadly, the coronavirus pandemic curtailed those plans and the festival was forced to cancel this year’s edition. However, Telluride did put out the schedule of films that had…

Keith Maitland says he had concerns when approaching survivors of the August 1966 mass shooting at the University of Texas about making his PBS documentary, Tower, as to how they would feel about being turned into “a cartoon.” “When you make the decision to call somebody out of the blue and say you want to talk to…

EXCLUSIVE: Producers Edward R. Pressman and Shep Gordon have partnered with Tower director Keith Maitland for a documentary about Michael Brody Jr., a 21-year-old hippie millionaire who in 1970 promised to give away his $25M inheritance in an effort to usher in a new era of world peace. Pressman and Gordon initially…

EXCLUSIVE: Keith Maitland, whose animated documentary film Tower made the Oscar shortlist, has signed with Verve and Writ Large for representation. Executive produced by Meredith Vieira and Luke Wilson, the pic reveals the emotional untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America's first mass school…

The August 1, 1966 sniper massacre perpetrated by Charles Whitman from the clock tower on the University of Texas’ Austin Campus remains a particularly gruesome milestone in modern American history. There have certainly been far worse mass public killings in the decades since, but the Austin attack was for decades the…

Enemies Within, the book that takes a critical look at U.S. counterterrorism and intelligence operations post-9/11, was optioned by Killer Content for Keith Maitland (Tower) to direct. The book, written by Pulitzer-winning journalists Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman, examines the problems, lack of communication and…

Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Keith Maitland's animated documentary Tower, which details the story of the lone gunman who climbed a clock tower at the University of Texas in 1966, shooting 49 people and killing 17 in what has come to be known as America's first mass school shooting. The docu…