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Emmy-nominated filmmaker Nanfu Wang is unusual for someone of her generation in China—she's got a sibling. She was born in 1985 in the midst of China's one child policy, which limited women to having a single baby. The only exception was for people in rural areas, like Wang's parents, who were permitted to have a…

Filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert understand better than most how much things can change in a decade. In 2009 they released their Oscar-nominated documentary short The Last Truck, about the closing of a GM plant in Ohio. In 2019, they returned with American Factory, a feature documenting what happened to…

Director Nanfu Wang's achievements in the documentary sphere are well known in the U.S., but in her native China it's a different story. When her latest film, One Child Nation, made the Oscar documentary feature shortlist earlier this month, Wang says, the news was censored in China. "A lot of Chinese media outlets…

Hints of autumn are unspooling this weekend with stars fronting Specialty fare opening in theaters. Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, Billy Crudup and Abby Quinn headline Sundance '19 opener After The Wedding, starting in New York and L.A. today via Sony Pictures Classics. The film by Bart Freundlich is based on the…

The BBC has picked up a slew of feature docs including Oscar-nominated Minding The Gap and Sundance titles One Child Nation and Maiden. This comes as the British public broadcaster has revamped its feature doc strand Storyville with films launching on youth-skewing network BBC Three for the first time as it looks to…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios will release this year’s Sundance U.S. Grand Jury Prize winning documentary One Child Nation on Aug. 9. The film from documentarian Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang explores China's One Child Policy, the extreme population control measure which made it illegal for couples to have more than one…

Following the news of winning the Grand Jury Prize U.S. documentary award at Sundance, Amazon Studios has picked up worldwide rights to One Child Nation excluding U.S. TV, and TV rights in Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, U.K., Netherlands, and Scandinavia (excluding Finland). The pic, directed by Nanfu Wang and…

“When everybody was saying ‘No’ this story does not have an audience, you, Sundance and the people who have seen this film have proven that there is an audience for this film, and I thank you!” beamed Clemency director Chinonye Chukwu after accepting the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize for her death penalty drama Clemen…