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In military parlance, the term retrograde can mean several things, among them withdrawal from a war zone, "where all or part of a deployed force voluntarily disengages from the enemy." The U.S. exit from the Vietnam War constituted a retrograde action, a chaotic process documented in Rory Kennedy's…

EXCLUSIVE: We have your first look at Matthew Heineman's gripping new film Retrograde from National Geographic Documentary Films, a visceral, ground-level immersion into the last nine months of America's long war in Afghanistan. In addition to releasing the trailer today, National Geographic also…

EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic is making the Oscar-shortlisted documentary The First Wave available for free for 48 hours, beginning tomorrow. Matthew Heineman's film, shot in a Queens hospital as New York City endured the initial explosion of Covid, can be seen without commercial interruption on NatGeo.com and…

New York City has recorded more than 1.1 million cases of Covid since the pandemic began almost two years ago. The disease has claimed almost 35,000 lives in the city alone. But statistics only go so far in telling the story. The documentary The First Wave, directed by Matthew Heineman, shows what it was really like…

When New York City became the epicenter of the country's Covid outbreak in 2020, many residents—those of means, anyway—fled to second homes or other points far from the city. But not New York-based filmmaker Matthew Heineman. He suited up in PPE on the frontlines of the Covid battle. The Oscar-nominated director…

The First Wave director Matthew Heineman said his Covid documentary was both frightening and inspiring. Heineman followed medical personnel at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in the Queens borough of New York for four months in 2020. He spoke at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary event about the experience. "I…

EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic Documentary Films, Neon and Participant have dropped the trailer for The First Wave, the latest film from Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land, A Private War). Heineman produced the Covid-themed feature-length doc under his Our Time Projects banner…

Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman never has shied from dangerous and somewhat frightening real-life situations in which to set his documentaries. Cartel Land found him embedded with those on the hunt for dangerous Mexican drug cartels. City of Ghosts saw him in the center of the fight against…

HamptonsFilm, the presenting organization of the Hamptons International Film Festival, said the festival’s 29th edition will return to in-person events and screenings in October. The festival will open October 7 with the world premiere of Academy Award-nominated director Matthew Heineman's The First Wave. The feature…

EXCLUSIVE:  Baby Driver and I Care a Lot actress Eiza González, Oscar-nominated/Emmy-winning director Matthew Heineman and Linden Entertainment have partnered with the estate of the iconic Mexican film star Maria Felix to bring her story to life. The team is looking for a Latin American writer to adapt Felix’s life…

National Geographic Documentary Films on Monday announced its acquisition of Oscar-nominated director Matthew Heineman's documentary The First Wave, a ground-level view inside a New York hospital as the city battled the initial explosion of Covid-19. The vérité-style film, from Participant and Heineman's Our Time…

The world is about to be immersed in the life of musician J Balvin. Amazon Studios has acquired the worldwide rights to the documentary The Boy From Medellín ahead of its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Directed by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman and backed…