Thirty years ago, Levon Brooks was accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a three-year old girl in Mississippi. Despite having an alibi, he was sentenced to life in prison based on bite mark analysis. A few months, later a second young girl was raped and murdered and Kennedy Brewer, the boyfriend of the victim's…
Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Laura Nix was supposed to board a flight to Copenhagen today, en route to the CPH:DOX festival to pitch her latest project. But the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly forced that event to shift online only, one of countless ways the coronavirus emergency is impacting the documentary…
One of the most celebrated documentarians of our time, known for such films as Who Killed Garrett Phillips? and What Happened, Miss Simone?, Liz Garbus makes her narrative feature debut this year with Lost Girls—a harrowing drama, based on a 2013 true-crime novel by Robert Kolker.
Starring Amy Ryan, Oona Laurence…
EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic has set its next documentary, which will focus on famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau. Two-time Oscar-nominated and two-time Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus (The Farm, Angola USA, What Happened, Miss Simone?) will direct and produce, with Oscar winner Dan Cogan (Icarus) as producer…
Gabriel Byrne, most recently seen in the acclaimed Hereditary, has joined the Netflix true crime film Lost Girls, along with Lola Kirke (Mozart in the Jungle), Miriam Shor (Younger), Thomasin McKenzie (Leave No Trace), Oona Laurence (The Beguiled), Reed Birney (House of Cards), Kevin Corrigan (Dice), Rosal Colon (Orang…
Watching the 2016 presidential election play out, Oscar-nominated documentarian Liz Garbus was as surprised as anyone by the outcome, as Republican candidate Donald Trump took a surprise victory over Hillary Clinton.
“All the predictors were telling us it was going to turn out one way, and it turned out another, and I…
Showtime debuted the trailer for its documentary series, The Fourth Estate, examining The New York Times as it navigated the minefield of covering President Donald Trump over the course of his first year in office.
Directed and produced by filmmaker Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?), the four-episode…
Showtime will premiere Liz Garbus’ documentary on The New York Times May 27, the network announced at today’s TCA winter press tour. With a working title of The Fourth Estate, the doc follows the newspaper and its journalists as they cover the first year of the Trump Administration.
"The Times is an odd and…
Oscar nominee Liz Garbus has been interested in Nina Simone's music since her college days. But it was as she explored the life of the troubled but talented singer that she realized there were a great many unanswered questions. She'd been invited to pitch as a director for the film that would become What Happened, Miss…
