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EXCLUSIVE: Director Matt Tyrnauer is doing a rapid update of his new documentary Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid to reflect Donald Trump's win in the presidential election. Deadline has learned the filmmaker quickly assembled a crew to shoot a new interview with the famed Democratic political…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to two films about the major U.K. rock band Blur: the documentary blur: To The End and the concert film blur: Live At Wembley Stadium, eyeing both for theatrical release later this year. Toby L (Liam Gallagher: Knebworth 22; Olivia…

Trains, the Polish documentary that offers "a collective portrait of people in 20th century Europe, capturing their hopes, desires, dramas, and tragedies" has won Best Film in the International Competition section of the prestigious International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). The film…

EXCLUSIVE: German production house Beetz Brothers Film Production is readying an ARD and Arte crime doc series about Operation Eureka, the largest international police operation against Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta. Mafia Hunters will tell a five-episode story of how the main investigators launched the…

With Bread and Roses, Jennifer Lawrence hopes to shed light on the Taliban’s control in Afghanistan, where women and girls have been stripped of many rights. The Oscar winner, who produced the Sahra Mani-helmed documentary alongside EP Malala Yousafzai, explained that there was pushback about the…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has pulled back the curtain on the films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature, Documentary Feature and International Feature categories for the 97th Academy Awards next year.   The list includes 31 toon features, 169 docs and international…

EXCLUSIVE: Points North Institute today announced the launch of the next application cycle for its Diane Weyermann Fellowship, one of the most generous artist development grants in documentary film. Three feature documentaries will be awarded $100,000 each in unrestricted grants, plus 18 months of…

Martha Stewart continues to hammer away at filmmaker R.J. Cutler over his documentary about the Queen of Hearths. She appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last week, floating the idea that Netflix should do a "second version" of Martha that would, presumably, correct what she sees as…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ on Wednesday announced The Honey Trap: A True Story of Love, Lies and The FBI, a new feature documentary from Emmy-nominated filmmaker Chris Moukarbel (Gaga: Five Foot Two) that will premiere on the Paramount+ with Showtime plan on Friday, December 6th, debuting on-air at 10 p.m…

EXCLUSIVE: Filipino-American comedian Jo Koy has joined Nurse Unseen, a new documentary from Emmy-winning director Michele Josue, as an executive producer. He joins a roster of EPs that also includes Josue, Carlo Velayo (Lingua Franca), and Grammy and three-time Tony Award-winner Jhett…

EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23, Keanu Reeves, UltraBoom and Starbucks Studios are partnered on Madwoman's Game, a feature documentary with backdoor pilot aspirations that will be directed by Zach Zamboni, the Emmy-winning showrunner whose work includes the docuseries Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. Madwoman’s Ga…

Ibrahim Omar's project Dry Sky won Best Pitch at the IDFA Forum Awards presented in Amsterdam on Wednesday. Among the other winners were Lana Y. Daher's Do You Love Me, "an archival journey through Beirut… [that] weaves together past & present to explore Lebanon's current status and psyche," which…