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Saul "Canelo" Álvarez is a global boxing star from Mexico with his four division world championships, and named the most undisputed middleweight champion of the world. Born on July 18, 1990, in Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico, Álvarez has captivated fans worldwide by representing his Mexican values and…

The documentary world has been rocked by news of Participant shutting down, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival ending after a 35-year run, and the possibility this may be the final year for the Hot Docs festival in Toronto. But there is one bright spot on the firmament: the debut of a new festival in…

EXCLUSIVE: Who is Sam Cox, and why is his house covered in doodles? Acme Studios and Lightbox set out to answer these questions in the upcoming documentary feature The Trouble with Mr Doodle. The documentary tells the story of Cox, a 25-year-old British artist known as Mr Doodle, who bought a…

Oscar-winner Asif Kapadia is helming a Prime Video doc about the latter days of tennis legend Roger Federer’s career, which was originally intended as a home movie. The feature-length doc will chronicle the final 12 days of the career of the man who is deemed by many to be the greatest tennis player…

CPH:DOX, the prestigious documentary film festival in Copenhagen, has announced a competition program across six categories that features 47 world premieres. The event, which has emerged as a rival to the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) as the biggest and most important…

EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic Documentary Films is bringing Bobi Wine: The People's President back to the big screen in some major markets Friday for President's Day weekend. The film follows Bobi Wine, the Ugandan opposition leader, former member of parliament, activist and national superstar…

EXCLUSIVE: Tell Them You Love Me explores the story of a controversial affair between Anna Stubblefield, a white university professor, and Derrick Johnson, a non-verbal Black man with cerebral palsy. Stubblefield claimed she and Johnson had fallen in love, but when his family found out about their…

In Black Box Diaries, director Shiori Ito confronts abuse but also a deeply flawed legal system. Her quest for justice begins in spring 2015. Then a young intern at Thomson Reuters, Ito found herself in a nightmarish situation with Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a prominent media figure with political connections in…

EXCLUSIVE: The rise of the Paralympic Games has been one of sport’s biggest recent triumphs, and a trailblazing content initiative charting its story is now set to take the narrative even deeper. Harder Than You Think (HTYT), which has exclusive worldwide rights to tell the story of the Paralympics…

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video’s UK arm has pre-bought a suite of true crime docs about some of Britain’s most notorious crimes. The deals with London-based distributor Abacus Media Rights also include acquisitions of two completed series. On the pre-buy front, the Amazon streamer has taken Woodcut Media…

By one measure, 2023 was a very tough year in documentary. The first indications of what lay ahead came in January at Sundance, where the usual panoply of films entered the arena in hopes of earning awards and the ultimate prize – distribution. But streamers and other major distributors showed no…

EXCLUSIVE: An exposé about institutionalized corruption in the Hare Krishna movement is being adapted into a feature doc by Sphere Media. Sphere has acquired rights to non-fiction book Monkey on a Stick: Murder, Madness, which was a New York Times bestseller from 1988 that investigative journalists…