EXCLUSIVE:A Life Too Short, the MTV Documentary Films movie about the honor killing of one of Pakistan’s first social-media stars that resulted in changes to the laws there, will debut on Friday, January 22 at 7 p.m. ET on Pluto TV. The short, produced by two-time Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, directed by…
UPDATED with video: Qandeel Baloch, the subject of MTV Documentary Films' A Life Too Short, became a new kind of celebrity in her native Pakistan. Beautiful and outspoken, she challenged the norms of her society by daring to post semi-nude photos of herself and to voice provocative opinions.
"She was this huge social…
UPDATED with video: Politics and Covid-19 have been intertwined ever since the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China a year ago. But when director Hao Wu made 76 Days, his harrowing film documenting hospital workers and Covid patients in Wuhan as the city went through lockdown, he left political questions…
The Oscar-contending documentary 76 Days, set in hospitals in Wuhan, China as the city endured lockdown after the eruption of Covid-19, is cinéma vérité par excellence. No sit-down interviews, no TV news reports spliced in—just the pure visual drama of medical workers and patients ensnared in an unprecedented…
EXCLUSIVE:MTV Documentary Films is set to release the COVID-19 documentary 76 Daysin more than 50 virtual cinemas nationwide including the Film Forum in New York and Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles beginning December 4.
Directed by Hao Wu (People's Republic of Desire) and two China-based journalists, Weixi Chen and…
In the MTV Documentary Films feature 76 Days, director Hao Wu (People’s Republic of Desire, All in My Family) chronicles the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan, China. The feature docu immerses the audience in the panic and fear of the emerging COVID-19 outbreak on January 23, 2020 in the city of 11…
The Oscar-nominated short documentary St. Louis Superman introduces viewers to Bruce Franks Jr., whose voice has become a clarion call against racial injustice. His message was first manifested as a practitioner of battle rap—an art form noted for its contest of ideas between two performers—before he became a Black…
Superlatives swirl around Bruce Franks Jr., the focus of the Oscar-nominated short documentary St. Louis Superman.
"I don’t know if I’ve ever met a human being quite as remarkable as Bruce, who just contains the sheer amount of talent but also this life force, this energy where just greatness seems to surround him,"…
Eight months ago, Sheila Nevins, the former longtime president of HBO Documentary and Family Programming, took over as head of MTV Documentary Films, a division of MTV Studios. One of the first projects she set up was short documentary St. Louis Superman, which today landed a Oscar nomination in the Documentary (Short…
MTV Documentary Films, a division of Viacom's MTV Studios, today announced its latest acquisition under Sheila Nevins: Gay Chorus Deep South.
Directed by David Charles Rodrigues, the film world premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature before going on…
