Documentaries

Trailer Released for French Olympics Documentary

Tue, 09/03/2024 - 12:47 -- Nick Dager

Pi Studios and SRAB Films have begun showing the trailer for Crois Pas Qu’on Dort (Don’t Think We’re Sleeping in English), an inspiring and unique feature-length story of three young French athletes in the lead-up to the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics. The 90-minute French language film, which was developed and produced by Pi Studios with the support of Nike, will premiere in mid-January 2025 followed by a release in theatres at the end of January.

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Seeking Works in Progress

Mon, 08/05/2024 - 09:39 -- Nick Dager

Submissions are open for the 2025 Big Sky Pitch. The film festival’s headline event of the DocShop Filmmaker’s Forum, the Big Sky Pitch is held during the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and invites up to ten film teams the chance to pitch their feature length documentary works-in-progress to a panel of top commissioning editors and funders of documentary film.

AMC, REI Co-op Studios to Screen Mountainfilm Short Films

Thu, 06/06/2024 - 10:23 -- Nick Dager

AMC Theatres, REI Co-op Studios, the outdoor specialty retailer’s in-house content division, and Mountainfilm, one of North America’s longest-running documentary film festivals, today announced an all-new content and marketing partnership that will bring a collection of festival-favorite short films to AMC locations across the country this fall.

Hot Docs Film Festival Temporarily Closes Toronto Theatre

Mon, 05/27/2024 - 10:32 -- Nick Dager

Ongoing financial uncertainty is forcing the Hot Docs Film Festival to temporarily close its flagship Toronto theatre and lay off staff for about three months, the organization said. Canada’s largest documentary film festival said it will shutter the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema starting June 12 as the organization tries to find a path back to profitability.

Fathom, Warner Bros. Releasing The Commandant’s Shadow in Theatres

Mon, 04/29/2024 - 08:29 -- Nick Dager

Fathom Events is partnering with Warner Bros. Pictures to bring filmmaker Daniela Völker’s timely and poignant documentary The Commandant’s Shadow to theatres across the U.S. on May 29 with an encore presentation the following day. Screenings for this very special event will be available in more than 500 theatres across the Fathom network of cinemas.

Trafalgar Bringing Nickelback Documentary to Big Screens Worldwide

Thu, 02/15/2024 - 11:57 -- Nick Dager

Trafalgar Releasing, Gimme Sugar Productions, and Submarine Entertainment announced plans today to bring Hate to Love: Nickelback, a feature-length documentary film about one of Canada’s most iconic and globally celebrated rock bands, to cinemas worldwide for two nights only on March 27 and March 30. The feature-length documentary will be distributed to more than 1350 locations across 30 countries.

New York Women in Film & Television, BAM Present Science in Motion

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 11:55 -- Nick Dager

New York Women in Film & Television is proud to present the Science in Motion Screening Series in partnership with the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a collection of groundbreaking contemporary films that delve into science and technology in the modern world. These urgent documentaries and empowering fictions take us from the depths of outer space to the on-the-ground action of a Hasidic women-run ambulance corps and beyond. Filmmaker Q&As will follow each screening.

Filming The 1619 Project

Wed, 12/13/2023 - 12:48 -- Nick Dager

Cinematographer Jerry Henry’s Emmy nomination for the sixth and final episode (Justice) of the Hulu Original TV Mini-docuseries The 1619 Project is just one of three Primetime Creative Arts Emmy nominations – including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series as well as Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program for the same episode (Adriana Pacheco, Jesse Allain-Marcus and Ephraim Kirkwood) – for the TV adaption of The 1619 Project created by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and the New York Times Magazine released by Hulu in January and February of 2023.

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