Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jane Rosenthal is taking the pulse of the nonfiction feature space — and it doesn’t look good. The mega-producer and Tribeca ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American documentary filmmakers can get into Sundance. They can win awards. They can sell around the world. And still not find a ...

At their best, documentaries illuminate the world around us and can even result in policy changes, unjustly-imprisoned people being freed, and help spark political movements. With a heated ...

At the 2025 edition of CPH:DOX, extreme political tension in the U.S. and parts of Europe cast a cloud of uncertainty over the Copenhagen-based documentary film festival. While nonfiction films that ...

American documentary filmmakers can get into Sundance. They can win awards. They can sell around the world. And still not find a buyer in the United States. That was the mood at this week's Copenhagen ...

The U.S. may be steering clear of political storytelling entirely, but BAFTA has gathered a group of diverse, British doc makers willing to push boundaries across the Atlantic: "We actively want to ...

One morning in early March, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival team is on its last mad programming dash. “We’re in a flurry,” festival co-director Emily Foster says, gesturing at an oversized ...

Perhaps the most definitive documentary yet detailing the impact of Cleveland political trailblazer Carl Stokes could hit screens later this year. Why it matters: Stokes became the first Black mayor ...

Despite these losses, the documentary community said it is not giving up. "Can't stop. Won't stop," said filmmaker Carol Bash, whose 2015 documentary about jazz musician Mary Lou Williams, Mary Lou ...

Filmmakers cite rising attacks on culture, shrinking space for political documentaries, and the struggle to secure U.S. distribution for films like 'The 6 Billion Dollar Man' and 'The Voice of Hind ...

Netflix has built a massive library of documentaries that feel less like traditional nonfiction and more like cinematic ...

"Fewer places are buying hard-hitting documentaries," the Tribeca co-founder and mega-producer said. When asked how the “business” of documentary films are going — citing how the Tribeca Festival is ...