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EXCLUSIVE: Participant and River Road Entertainment have announced that they’re producing Food, Inc. 2 — a sequel to their Academy Award-nominated documentary Food, Inc., to be released later this year. The original film directed by Robert Kenner offered an unflattering look inside America’s…

Emmy-winning documentary executive Courtney Sexton is returning to the esteemed production company Participant, CEO David Linde announced today. She will oversee all of Participant’s documentary content as Executive Vice President of Documentary Film and Television from the start of 2023, having…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired domestic theatrical rights to Participant's civil rights documentary Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power. Greenwich plans a December 2 release of the film directed by Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhir, which earlier this week earned a Critics Choice…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has released a trailer for the award-winning documentary Descendant, a day before the Margaret Brown film screens as part of the Main Slate of the New York Film Festival. The documentary, from Higher Ground – the production company of Barack and Michelle Obama – Participant, and Night Tide in…

EXCLUSIVE: Delhi, India is heading into a warm weekend, with temperatures expected to hit 93 F on Saturday, rising to 96 F on Sunday. Still, that's nothing compared to a record-breaking heatwave that hit in mid-May, when the temperature exceeded 120 F (49.2 C). That suffocating heat has been attributed to climate…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal a first clip for Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras' documentary All The Beauty And The Bloodshed ahead of its world premiere in competition at Venice this weekend. The work recounts the quest of renowned U.S. artist and activist Nan Goldin to hold the Sackler Family to account for…

EXCLUSIVE: Participant's Chloé Zhao-exec produced limited scripted series about Vincent Chin had found its writers and director. Kogonada, who directed Colin Farrell-fronted feature After Yang and a number of episodes of Apple TV+'s Pachinko, and Christopher Radcliff, who wrote and directed 2018 film The Strange Ones…

US-based Participant is developing scripted series Esperanza as  co-production with Brazilian activist production company Maria Farinha Films. The adventure drama follows the crew of the vessel Esperanza as they fight for environmental and social rights around the world. The series was created and written by Maria…

EXCLUSIVE: Voter suppression in this country is not a new phenomenon. In fact, it goes all the way back to Reconstruction following the Civil War, the moment when African Americans ostensibly first gained access to the ballot box. The passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 was meant to correct systemic and…

Laurence Fishburne (John Wick: Chapter 4) and Clifton Collins Jr. (Nightmare Alley) have signed on to star in the upcoming film Frank & Louis, which Petra Volpe is directing for Participant, Zodiac Pictures and Tyler Perry’s Peachtree & Vine Productions. In Frank & Louis, a man serving a life sentence (Collins) takes…

Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has a conductor captured the imagination of the American public quite like Gustavo Dudamel. The Venezuelan-born phenom with the flashing baton and flying curls has been featured on 60 Minutes, profiled in The New Yorker, inspired a TV series (Mozart in the Jungle), and even been…

Premature filmmaker Rashaad Ernesto Green is set to helm Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), Participant and MACRO’s feature movie ’68 inspired by the true story of Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos. The track athletes from San Jose State rose to become Olympic medalists and activists at the 1968 Games in Mexico City…