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Italy's Piedmont region is a country for old men, to judge from the new documentary The Truffle Hunters. In the Oscar shortlisted film, a colorful group of aged characters, most in their 80s, traverse the hilly countryside often in the middle of the night, accompanied by their trusty canine companions. Man and dog, uom…

UPDATED with video: Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw didn't necessarily get much sleep when they were making their Sony Pictures Classics documentary The Truffle Hunters, about superannuated men and their dogs in Italy who search for the subterranean delicacy. "Usually truffle hunting’s done in the middle…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, whose documentary The Truffle Hunters played in competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival where it was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics in a $1.5 million rights deal, has signed with UTA. The agency will also rep the pair’s newly formed company Beautiful Stories…

UPDATE: Sony Pictures Classics has confirmed Deadline’s story that it acquired The Truffle Hunters. Release is below original scoop. EARLIER EXCLUSIVE, 6:25 pm PST: Sony Pictures Classics has dug out The Truffle Hunters, a documentary that got a tasty reaction since it premiered Sunday at The Prospector. The docu…