documentary
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The Documentary Dilemma: Must-See Films, Hardly Seen
At Full Frame, packed theaters and standing ovations reveal what’s working — if only the rest of the business followed
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Penny Lane and the Tyranny of Cool
In a heroes-and-villains culture, she fights for nuance — even if it’s a ‘dirty word’
Latest documentary stories
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Andrew Jarecki on His Unsettling Prison Doc That Broke the Rules
He and co-director Charlotte Kaufman hope their ‘The Alabama Solution’ has ‘liberated’ filmmakers to tell the real stories of incarceration
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Documentary Spotlight: Inside the Films Cutting Through Power, Prisons & Patriarchy
Filmmakers on four of the most impactful stories on the Oscar doc shortlist
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Sports Doc Fatigue: Hollywood’s New Endurance Test (and How to Cure It)
Amid ‘way too much’ programming, producers, agents & execs tell me how they’re rewriting the playbook to keep audiences in the game
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‘To Catch a Predator’, Reconsidered
‘Predators’ is like no true-crime doc before. Plus: Apple pulled Jessica Chastain’s new show — ugh
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Sundance Canceled ‘Jihad Rehab.’ Its ‘Pit Bull’ Director Refuses to Let it Die
Meg Smaker renamed her film about ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees, crowdfunds screenings and won starry allies amid a renewed free speech debate
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Documentary is ‘Meeting the Moment.’ Now Distributors Need to Step Up
TIFF programmer Thom Powers tells me about his slate of top nonfiction films
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‘It’s Brutal’: Shut Out by Leagues, Indie Sports Doc Creators Get Creative
As teams and players go in-house, small producers reveal their jukes: innovative finance models and workarounds for dwindling access
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Docs Under MAGA: Stranded, Abandoned & Hollywood ‘Kryptonite’
Alex Gibney on ‘no appetite [to] offend’, buyers ghosting Oscar shortlist films, Amazon’s $40M Melania check and CEOs’ fear
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Erotic Thrillers: Unsung Heroes of Home Video
Anthony Penta, director of ‘We Kill for Love’, on the history — and present — of an unfairly denigrated genre