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At a briefing level, the 2026 Sedona International Film Festival has concluded its awards cycle and the documentary slate drew the sharpest attention from programming and industry partners tracking the desert-season festival. The festival’s organizers released the winners of every competition category, and the headline...
Oscilloscope Laboratories has secured North American distribution rights to Underland, a critically acclaimed documentary exploring hidden worlds beneath the Earths surface. The film, based on Robert Macfarlanes bestselling book, premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival in the documentary competition section and wil...
Duffy, the Welsh singer whose 2008 global hit 'Mercy' was followed by a sudden and total retreat from public life, is preparing to break her silence in a landmark Disney+ documentary. The film will mark the first time she personally addresses the sexual assault and kidnapping she alluded to in 2020, directly linking th...
British singer Duffy is set to publicly detail her alleged kidnapping and sexual assault for the first time, breaking a near-total decade-long withdrawal from public life. The revelation comes via a new documentary on Disney+, which frames her return with the stark statement: "She’s barely been seen or heard from since...
A recent parliamentary screening of the Channel 4 docudrama 'Dirty Business' has left a profound and disturbing mark, framing the UK's water privatisation not as a policy debate but as a lethal scandal. The event, hosted by MP Clive Lewis, brought together the actors, the real-life campaigners and families they portray...
A new digital trace and a reported physical sighting have injected fresh urgency into the decades-old disappearance of Amy Bradley. In an exclusive revelation, director Ari Mark details a suspicious IP address hit linked to the case, originating from a Caribbean casino, alongside a corroborating eyewitness account of a...
The central warning from the filmmakers behind the new documentary ‘The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist’ is blunt and unsettling: the technology we are building likely has no kill switch. This Focus Features film, now in theaters, emerged from a two-and-a-half-year investigation into the dawn of artificial in...
Russian President Vladimir Putin's systematic expulsion of free-minded individuals is the stark reality for journalists who dare to report independently from within the country. Filmmaker Julia Loktev's latest documentary work spotlights these reporters, branding them as 'undesirable friends'—a label that underscores t...
Damian Abraham, the provocative frontman of the punk band F*cked Up, has pivoted from the stage to the screen, teaming up with former CBC producer Zach Feldberg to launch the new production company Cut & Paste Pictures. Based in Toronto, the venture has been operating in stealth mode since last year and is now formally...
Raw TV, the production powerhouse behind global hits like *The Tinder Swindler*, is losing a key creative leader. Liesel Evans, the company's Creative Director, is departing after nearly ten years, marking a significant shift in the studio's senior ranks. Her exit removes a veteran executive whose portfolio includes ac...
A 16-year-old chess player has successfully recruited Hollywood star Keanu Reeves to executive produce her documentary, 'Madwoman's Game.' Bianca Mitchell-Avila conceived the project to spotlight the real women challenging the male-dominated chess world, turning a personal vision into a film with major industry backing...
A political firestorm has erupted in Italy after a government-appointed commission denied public funding to a documentary investigating the 2016 torture and murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo. The film, titled 'All the Evil in the World,' centers on the case that has long strained Italy-Egypt relations, w...
In a startling admission, Nick Lachey has revealed that Motown Records provided his boy band, 98 Degrees, with a specific legal guide to navigate relationships with underage fans while on tour. The revelation, made in the upcoming Investigation Discovery documentary 'Boy Band Confidential,' exposes a formalized, label-...
Actor and director Ben McKenzie, armed with an economics degree and a coffee cup, directly confronted former crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, capturing a tense moment for a new documentary premiering at the Miami Film Festival. McKenzie’s investigation into cryptocurrency began during the pandemic, leading him to ...
Senator Elizabeth Warren has launched a direct accusation of bribery against Amazon MGM Studios, framing its $40 million bid for a documentary about Melania Trump as a corrupt transaction 'in plain sight.' The allegation, made in a letter co-led with Rep. Hank Johnson, targets the media giant's aggressive financial pur...
The sanitized pop image of the boy band era is cracking. In the new ID documentary series 'Boy Band Confidential,' executive producer and NSYNC member Joey Fatone pulls back the curtain on the industry's toxic underbelly, promising stories fans have never heard. The series features candid interviews with major figures ...
The golden age of boy bands was built on a foundation of sexual predation and financial ruin. A new documentary, ‘Boy Band Confidential’, exposes the systematic sexual abuse and exploitative business practices of Lou Pearlman, the Svengali behind NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys. The film alleges Pearlman used his positio...
Actor and director Ben McKenzie is launching a direct assault on the cryptocurrency industry, labeling it a 'scam' in his debut documentary, 'Everyone Is Lying to You for Money.' The project, discussed at the Miami Film Festival, positions itself as an exposé, with McKenzie's pointed fashion choice—a hat reading 'Make ...
Federal immigration agents escalated a tense Minneapolis street encounter by deploying tear gas and firing pepper balls into a crowd, a response triggered after a protester threw a snowball. The incident, captured on video by a FRONTLINE and ProPublica documentary crew, unfolded just days after an ICE agent fatally sho...
Producer and director Frank Marshall has publicly alleged that ESPN2 abruptly pulled his documentary, 'Rachel, Breathe,' from its broadcast schedule at the last possible moment. In a post on X, Marshall stated the film would not premiere as planned, framing the cancellation as the result of "several days of negotiation...