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To this day, filmmaker Rory Kennedy won't fly on a Boeing 737 Max aircraft. "Based on what I know," she tells Deadline, "I would not get on the 737 Max and I would not let my family get on a 737 Max." Her point of view is significant because Kennedy has learned a great deal about the aircraft in the course of making…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy (Downfall: The Case Against Boeing, Last Days in Vietnam) for worldwide representation in all areas. Kennedy has directed and produced more than 30 features, and runs Moxie Firecracker Films with her husband and…

"I really wanted to know what happened, who was responsible, and ultimately to make a film where we could learn some lessons from that to ensure that this kid of tragedy doesn't happen again," director Rory Kennedy says of the motivation behind Downfall: The Case Against Boeing. Debuting at the virtual Sundance Film…

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…