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Pakistan has selected Mo Naqvi's nonfiction action thriller Hanging By a Wire as its official entry for Best International Film at the Academy Awards, the first time the country has chosen a documentary for that distinction. The film captures the drama and suspense around a news event that…

EXCLUSIVE: Shadow Lion, the company founded by NFL legend Tom Brady, is working on a new documentary chronicling Dubai Basketball's championship rise. The company has set Yalla, Dubai: From Startup to Championship, a documentary that follows the team from its launch in 2023 to becoming ABA…

When the world's richest man threatens to sue you, it's enough to get your attention. That's the situation filmmaker Alex Gibney finds himself in with the imminent release of his documentary Musk, an unflattering portrait of tech mogul and investor Elon Musk. "He is well funded," Gibney…

"I guess we should just start at the beginning, and tell us how this happened," New York Film Festival artistic director Dennis Lim asked filmmakers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim at a Q&A after a screening of You Can See Everything on Wednesday night. It was the second public showing of the…

EXCLUSIVE: As parts of California continue to rebuild following wildfires in recent years, The Grid Unplugged explores a systemic failure at the root of the problem. Making its world premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival, Deadline has an exclusive clip from the Rick Cutter-helmed…

September brought a rash of film festivals (well, maybe "rash" is the wrong word; that sounds like a skin condition. How about a "slew" instead?). In any case, it was one film festival after another this month, beginning with Venice, continuing with Telluride, then Toronto, and for documentary…

In the new trailer for Netflix The One About Matthew Perry, the late Friends star reflects on his TV success and the toll it took. In a voiceover early in the clip, Perry says, “I said God, you can do anything you want to me just please make me famous.” When fame arrived, Perry reflected, “God did…

The lineup for the 2026 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is taking shape, with the announcement Tuesday of more than 100 titles joining the roster. The 39th edition of the world's largest documentary festival revealed selections across its Signed, Paradocs, Best of Fests, and…

In comedian Dane Cook’s mind, “some people brighten up a room by leaving it.” That’s certainly been true in his case, considering the devastating personal lows that have come intertwined with dizzying career highs. From a middle-class Massachusetts family, Cook first took the mic in Boston…

EXCLUSIVE: In June, in rural Ohio, 16 children, from toddlers to teenagers were found living in a 12×12 room in conditions so deplorable that authorities described it as “pure evil". This story is set to be explored in a new feature-length documentary for Oxygen. The Versant-owned cable…

EXCLUSIVE: Hit British comedy The Inbetweeners has re-entered the zeitgeist lately with the unveiling of a new Netflix movie. Stars Joe Thomas and James Buckley are taking advantage with a Channel 4 documentary dealing with the show’s favorite topic, adulting. Thomas and Buckley, who can both be…

EXCLUSIVE: Lightdox has acquired world sales rights to the documentary My Home of Wind and Sand ahead of its world premiere Tuesday at the Zurich Film Festival. Filmmaker Patrick Wally spent over a decade on his film, a portrait of women's rights, human rights and climate activist Najla Mohamed…