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EXCLUSIVE: UTA has inked Story Syndicate, which was co-founded by Emmy-winning filmmaker and two-time Oscar nominee Liz Garbus and Oscar-winning producer Dan Cogan in 2019. The agency will be representing Story Syndicate across all areas worldwide. UTA also reps Garbus individually. Story Syndicate is known for its…

Becoming Cousteau director Liz Garbus said her documentary about ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau shows that he recognized the dangers of climate change decades ago. Garbus spoke with Deadline's Matthew Carey at Contenders Film:  Documentary. "We saw him start talking about it as early as 1971," Garbus said. "When he…

EXCLUSIVE: Story Syndicate, the New York-based film and television production company founded by Oscar- and Emmy-winning filmmaking couple Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus, has added four executives to its growing ranks. Joining Story Syndicate in the newly-created role of COO is Mala Chapple, a Peabody-winning and Emmy…

EXCLUSIVE: Over his 87 years of life, Jacques-Yves Cousteau was variously an officer in the French navy, a pilot, an inventor, an author, an ocean explorer, and filmmaker. It's in the latter two roles that he is best remembered, plying the seas aboard his beloved Calypso, documenting the exotic world beneath the…

Filmmaker Liz Garbus is nominated for an Emmy this year for directing an episode of the Hulu dystopian drama The Handmaid's Tale, but she isn't abandoning her work in documentary. Garbus's latest nonfiction film, Becoming Cousteau, holds its international premiere at TIFF following an unveiling earlier this month at…

The multiple generations who grew up mesmerized by the underwater cinematic adventures of Jacques-Yves Cousteau will be able to learn a good deal more about the man's life and work in Becoming Cousteau. Among the many gifts of Liz Garbus' filled-to-the-gills documentary is the way it positions the French explorer as…

With the theocratic and militant Taliban reasserting control in Afghanistan, the deep political and cultural divisions here in America taking on a blatant insurgent form, and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, The Handmaid’s Tale seems more apposite than perhaps ever before. Attaining 21 Emmy nominations for its fourth…

Although fans of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale may have been surprised to see Elisabeth Moss’ June finally cross over into Canada and out of the evil grasp of Gilead in Season 4, the writers have been planning for that moment for some time. And while her arrival to the north didn't erase all the mental and physical…

When it came to the killing of Joseph Fiennes’ Fred Waterford in the season 4 finale of The Handmaid’s Tale, it wasn’t by poison, or by repeated knifing, rather by melee in slow-motion; a sea of handmaid’s to be exact. The Emmy nominated director of that episode “The Wilderness”, 2x Oscar nominee Liz Garbus and series…

White men have long dominated the Directing For a Drama Series Emmy category. Female and Black helmers did not land first nominations until three decades after the category’s 1955 inception (Thomas Carter in 1984, Karen Arthur in 1985) This year, for the first time ever, the majority of drama directing nominations…

Emmy voters may give an involuntary shudder while poring over potential nominees in the documentary categories. They abound with tales of mass murderers and eldritch crime: John Wayne Gacy, the Manson Family, the Night Stalker Richard Ramirez, the Australian serial killer known as the Night Caller, and the Golden…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is doubling down on its investment in the GameStop story with a new documentary series from Emmy and Oscar-winning filmmakers Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus. The streamer has ordered and is in production on a series that tells the viral story of rebel retail traders taking on Wall Street – a David vs…