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Paws for applause: dogs featured in the documentaries The Truffle Hunters and Stray have shared the top prize at the annual Fido Awards, presented today in London, which recognize the best canine appearances in cinema. The pair picked up the “Best in the World” collar and also shared the “Dog Dox” prize at the…

Italy's Piedmont region is a country for old men, to judge from the new documentary The Truffle Hunters. In the Oscar shortlisted film, a colorful group of aged characters, most in their 80s, traverse the hilly countryside often in the middle of the night, accompanied by their trusty canine companions. Man and dog, uom…

Sony Pictures Classics has made some tweaks to its release schedule for four upcoming pics and one that’s already in theaters. The distributor run by co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard said that Dror Moreh’s documentary The Human Factor, which opened last month in Los Angeles and New York, will go nationwide…

The PGA is out with its documentary feature nominees for the 2021 Producers Guild Awards. Vying for the hardware are David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, Dick Johnson Is Dead, My Octopus Teacher, Softie, A Thousand Cuts, Time and The Truffle Hunters. Winners will be honored during the virtual 32nd annual…

UPDATED with video: Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw didn't necessarily get much sleep when they were making their Sony Pictures Classics documentary The Truffle Hunters, about superannuated men and their dogs in Italy who search for the subterranean delicacy. "Usually truffle hunting’s done in the middle…

Sony Pictures Classics will release Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw's The Truffle Hunters on Christmas Day, Dec. 25. It was announced this week that the documentary will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival, capping off a string of previous acceptances into the Cannes, Telluride, and New York Film…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, whose documentary The Truffle Hunters played in competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival where it was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics in a $1.5 million rights deal, has signed with UTA. The agency will also rep the pair’s newly formed company Beautiful Stories…

EXCLUSIVE: “The film talks about an end of days…in a way, it's a companion piece to The Irishman,” Luca Guadagnino says about Sundance documentary The Truffle Hunters, on which he is an executive producer. Martin Scorsese’s $150m mob epic wasn’t the first movie that came to mind after watching the intimate documentary…