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Discovery Channel’s documentary Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow will get a limited theatrical release ahead of its October premiere on the cable net. Watch a clip of the film above. Fathom Events has set screenings for September 29 and October 3, including a special introduction from…

"It's just speculation at the moment," Laura Dern told the Los Angeles Times last month, describing talk that she has become a prospect for the presidency of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences when new officers are elected on August 8. But it's a hot summer afternoon, and all the serious people are at…

More than 100 documentaries from 28 countries will screen during the annual five-day AFI Docs festival next month, including Nick Broomfield/Rudi Dolezal’s Whitney Houston bio Whitney. “Can I Be Me” and the Bonni Cohen/Jon Shenk An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power. In all, the 15th annual fest, running from June…

EXCLUSIVE: After making his bow at Sundance last January, extreme surfer Laird Hamilton has caught his wave with Sundance Selects. The distributor has acquired U.S. rights to Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton, the documentary directed by Last Days in Vietnam and Ethel helmer Rory Kennedy. The film seemed to…

Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy took audiences to Abu Ghraib and the Last Days In Vietnam, but she entered into decidedly new territory with Take Every Wave: The Life Of Laird Hamilton, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Beautifully shot, juxtaposing new footage with…

At last Saturday’s lively and informative annual Women’s Panel – expertly moderated by Madelyn Hammond –  at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival , filmmaker Rory Kennedy had the capacity crowd roaring when she offered her brother Christopher’s two part definition of the kind of movies she makes:  “Depressing…

The Oscar-nominated documentary Last Days in Vietnam will stream online for free for three days next month through PBS-related websites and related digital video outlets. The documentary, which had a solid limited theatrical release in September, has grossed more than $441,000 since. It is one of five documentary…

Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage. The HBO documentary Ethel, on the life of Ethel Kennedy and directed/produced by daughter Rory Kennedy, premiered at Sundance in January. At that time, documentarian Rory Kennedy spoke at length with Deadline about the project. At today's TCA, Rory and Ethel…