How Alex Gibney Made a Secret Film About Benjamin Netanyahu

How Alex Gibney Made a Secret Film About Benjamin Netanyahu

From investigations into Wikileaks and Scientology, Elizabeth Holmes and the battle in Afghanistan, Alex Gibney has made a few of the defining documentaries of our time. So it is sensible he’d now flip his consideration as a producer to one of many defining political figures of our time: long-serving Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In … Read more

Hillary Talks About Her Abortion Documentary, ‘Zurawski v Texas’

Hillary Clinton speaks at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival.

Hillary Clinton inspired a movie pageant viewers in Telluride, Colorado, to “get again to a time when your authorities isn’t figuring out what your selections for your loved ones can be, which is simply so Handmaid’s Story.” Clinton was in Telluride on Saturday for the premiere of Zurawski v Texas, a documentary she produced a … Read more

Lisa Henson on Picking Ron Howard for Jim Henson Documentary

Jim Henson paints Kermit the Frog

When Lisa Henson first noticed Jim Henson Thought Man, the Ron Howard-directed documentary about her well-known puppeteer father, she immediately thought of it a hit. “It was fantastic to see that Ron had landed it,” Lisa tells THR. “We had hoped that within the storytelling, Ron would possibly be capable of channel a number of … Read more

Dawn Porter’s Biden Film Among Cuts at DNC Night One

Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance during night one of the DNC.

The primary evening of the DNC in Chicago had an Academy Awards really feel — proper all the way down to the overruns and snubs. On an evening when Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, AOC and others introduced the United Middle crowd to its ft with rousing podium speeches — and Kamala Harris made a raucously … Read more

The Beatles Get Two Venice Film Festival Docs

The Beatles Get Two Venice Film Festival Docs

The Beatles are getting some consideration at this yr’s Venice Movie Competition, which unveiled its 2024 lineup on Tuesday. The legendary band, who dominated the music business for a complete decade from 1960, has earned spots within the prestigious fest’s documentary part in several capacities. Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ doc One to One: John … Read more

‘Teen Torture, Inc.’ and Paris Hilton Bring Abusive Industry to Task

'Teen Torture, Inc.' and Paris Hilton Bring Abusive Industry to Task

The so-called “troubled teen trade” is dealing with a contemporary spherical of scrutiny this summer time with the July premiere of Teen Torture, Inc., the brand new Max documentary in regards to the billion-dollar trade related to the kidnapping, abuse and brainwashing of younger Individuals. Paris Hilton spoke final week earlier than Congress to advocate … Read more

Oleh Sentsov Interview on Ukraine War Film ‘Real’: KVIFF

Oleh Sentsov Interview on Ukraine War Film ‘Real’: KVIFF

20 Days in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov’s harrowing and Oscar-winning documentary in regards to the siege of the Ukrainian port metropolis within the first days of Russia‘s full-scale invasion, introduced house the devastation wrought by struggle on a civilian inhabitants. A brand new documentary, Actual, premiering on the Karlovy Fluctuate worldwide Movie Pageant, exhibits the truth … Read more

2024 Hot Docs Festival Winners List

2024 Hot Docs Festival Winners List

Nishta Jain’s Farming the Revolution, a movie about Indian farmers rising up in opposition to new legal guidelines, picked up one of the best worldwide characteristic documentary prize on the Scorching Docs Canadian Worldwide Documentary Pageant on Friday night time. The highest jury prize win on the pageant means Jain’s movie, which world premiered at … Read more