‘Blue Island,’ ‘Geographies of Solitude’ Win Top Jury Honors at Hot Docs
'Blue Island,' exploring Hong Kong's protest movement and ensuing crackdown, won Hot Docs' Best International Feature Documentary Award.
'Blue Island,' exploring Hong Kong's protest movement and ensuing crackdown, won Hot Docs' Best International Feature Documentary Award.
Daniel Roher wants as many people as possible to see 'Navalny' to keep the spotlight on the imprisoned Russian dissident poisoned in 2020
Magnolia Pictures has snapped up North American rights to a Martin Scorsese executive-produced doc about New York's historic Chelsea Hotel.
Hot Docs will open with 'Into the Weeds,' about a former groundskeeper who battles an agrochemical corporation after his cancer diagnosis.
Netflix's 'Bad Vegan' docuseries tells how Pure Food owner Sarma Melngailis ended up stealing millions of dollars from investors.
Mila Aung-Thwin, a producer on 2022 Sundance Special Jury Award winner “Midwives,” will direct a feature documentary about Tiberiu Uşeriu (a.k.a. Romania’s Ice Man), an extreme ultramarathon…
Chan Tze Woon’s “Blue Island,” a doc-narrative hybrid exploring Hong Kong’s recent protest movement and ensuing crackdown, won Hot Docs’ Best International Feature Documentary Award and a…
In 2014, at age 53, Tom Wilson, a singer-songwriter from Hamilton, Ontario, with a stack of gold records and stories aplenty, found out quite accidentally that he had been adopted. Soon afterward…
“Million Dollar Pigeons,” which had its world premiere this week at Hot Docs, follows a colorful cast of pigeon masters from far and wide who compete in the most lucrative pigeon races on the…
“Girl Gang,” which screened in competition at CPH:DOX and has its North American premiere this week at Hot Docs, offers a behind-the-scenes look at an industry hardly known for reticence. But in…
“The Queendom,” one of 20 projects presented at Hot Docs’ marquee market event, the Forum, has won the First Look first prize of Can. $25,000 cash, one of three pitch prizes announced Thursday at…
An award-winning writer, blogger and editor whose work centers on the post-apartheid condition from the perspective of Black, middle-class South Africans and women, Milisuthando Bongela is making her
Progress Film, the historic distributor established in 1950 to handle the release of films produced by communist East Germany’s state-owned film studio, has announced plans to relaunch…
Last week Darya Bassel, the curator of Docudays UA’s industry platform, returned to her home in Kyiv and found herself smiling “like a crazy person” to be back at work and resuming something of…
Some of the best docuseries of the year examine a seminal year in rock history, a pyramid scheme and a cursed fashion brand.
ByBy Pat Saperstein
To help documentary lovers navigate this crowded sector, Variety has assembled a calendar of TV and film documentary premiere dates that will be updated regularly.
Variety editors ranked top documentaries about Hollywood -- films that examine productions gone out of control and key figures behind the scenes.
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