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UPDATED with reaction from nominee Shaunak Sen from original 9:04 a.m. story: Only a handful of documentary filmmakers have earned a pair of Oscars during their careers. Laura Poitras could join that august group after earning a nomination this morning for her acclaimed feature All the Beauty and the Blood…

The award-winning documentary Navalny could be crowned with an Oscar nomination later this month, but the man whose story is told in it has never seen the film. Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, remains behind bars under a lengthy sentence after daring to criticize President Vladimir…

Christo Grozev, the investigative journalist featured in the Navalny documentary, has been put on Russia’s “wanted” list. According to the Russian Interior Ministry’s website, via CNN, Grozev is “wanted under an article of the Criminal Code,” but doesn’t further cite the article. Grozev took to…

Navalny has been marketed as an international thriller focusing on the conspiracy to assassinate Russian peace activist Alexei Navalny, but director Daniel Roher says that it was just as important to show him as a human being as it was an icon.  At Deadline's Contenders Documentary awards-season…

Documentaries don’t get much more timely than this. CNN Films has released the first trailer for Navalny, director Daniel Roher’s feature doc about Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, and set an April 24 premiere date on CNN. The cable news outlet will air the feature with limited commercial interruption…

Warner Bros. Pictures is teaming with Fathom Events for a special theatrical event of the Daniel Roher-directed documentary, Navalny, which had its surprise screening at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Award in the U.S. Documentary Competition section as well as the Festival Favorite Award. The movie…

The Sundance Film Festival revealed award winners for its 2022 edition Friday. Like the rest of this year’s festival, which was forced to go all-virtual because of the recent Omicron surge, the awards ceremony played out on Twitter, with honors spread around across the diverse lineup unlike last year, when CODA swept…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a dramatic first clip for well-received Sundance Film Festival documentary Navalny, the event’s surprise film which debuted last night. The timely film about the Russian novichok poisoning scandal was made in secret. The fly-on-the-wall “documentary thriller” about Russian opposition leader Alexei…

Alexei Navalny, Russia's highest-profile opposition figure, perennial thorn in Putin's side and currently a guest in state prison, gets a vigorous up-close-and-personal look in this eventful, fest-moving, never-a-dull-moment documentary from Daniel Roher. A collaboration between HBO Max and CNN Films, Navalny,…

This year’s Sundance Film Festival is online, but that doesn’t mean it can’t program a secret screening. Just added is Daniel Roher’s documentary thriller Navalny, which will make its world premiere 6 p.m. MT on January 25 as the 10th and final title in the U.S. Documentary Competition section Navalny focuses on…

CNN Films and HBO Max are partnering for a documentary on anti-corruption Russian government opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Described as a documentary thriller and shot as the story unfolded, Navalny follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During…