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FX, Hulu, and The New York Times All in on Docuseries 'The Weekly'
We also want to thank our partners at Hulu on this deal and the team at Left/Right." – John Landgraf, CEO of FX Networks and FX Productions The Weekly is a narrative documentary news program that will feature one or two of The New York Times' biggest and most important visual stories each week[...]
[Tribeca 2018] 'Love, Gilda' Review: A Touching Tribute to a Prime-Time Talent
Credit: Love, Gilda Though the Tribeca Film Festival is known for (obviously) being a film festival, the 2018 edition opened with a touching documentary on an influential female comedian best known for her ground-breaking work on the small screen Director/producer Lisa D'Apolito's Love, Gilda premiered at the Beacon Theater as the kick-off to the popular film festival,[...]
[#Tribeca2018] Bleeding Cool's Tribeca Film Festival Guide to All 96 Feature Films
The famed festival is set to open on Wednesday, April 18, with the world premiere of Lisa D'Apolito's Gilda Radner documentary Love, Gilda; and closing on April 29 with the world premiere of The Fourth Estate, Oscar-nominated director Liz Garbus' doc that The New York Times' coverage of the first year of Donald Trump's presidency. https://youtu.be/BcHYRrUI7w8 Best of all? Bleeding[...]
Netflix Announces 2018 Tribeca Film Festival Films and Documentaries
With a little more than a month to go before the famed film festival, Netflix has released their feature film and documentary feature selections for the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival Taking place from April 18-29 in New York City, the streaming service's four selections include two North American feature film debuts (Cargo, Sunday's Illness aka La Enfermedad[...]
Blumhouse Sets 'No One Saw a Thing' Doc Series at SundanceTV
Credit: (left) Kathy Hutchins – Shutterstock.com / (right) SundanceTV A murder takes place in front of five dozen witnesses — seems pretty much a slam dunk case, right? Yet over 30 years later, the case remains unsolved because apparently No One Saw a Thing: also the title of Blumhouse Television's six-episode true crime documentary series for SundanceTV. Israeli documentarian[...]
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Making Fun: The Story of Funko is a new documentary about the history of the company that in the last few years has become one of the most popular toy brands in the world We were shown some footage from the film at Funko Fundays at SDCC this past July, and now we have a[...]
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Credit: Netflix Netflix continues to bolster its already impressive slate of documentaries and docu-series going into 2018, announcing a lineup of new documentary shorts for the first part of the new year From Eastern European street traders and dedicated medical visionaries to an inspiring archer and a psychedelic pioneer, the streaming service looks to continue diversifying[...]
'Spielberg': HBO Releases First Trailer for Steven Spielberg Doc
The director finds himself in front of the camera as the focus of Spielberg, HBO's feature-length documentary that means to show fans more of the personal side to the man behind some of their favorite films. Directed by award-winning documentarian Susan Lacy (American Masters) and produced by Lacy, Emma Pildes and Jessica Levin, Spielberg is set[...]
Whose Streets? Trailer Looks At The Black Lives Matter Movement
The shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri sparked a movement and a nation wide debate about how racial minorities are treated in America. https://youtu.be/upiJnjJSerwVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Whose Streets? – Official Trailer (https://youtu.be/upiJnjJSerw) This documentary promises to take an unflinching look at the situation, and that is likely going to cause a[...]
beetlejuice
Fans of Tim Burton's 1988 classic dead-undead-dead comedy have taken up the cause of producing a documentary about the groundbreaking special effects and production woes behind the film And they need your help to make their project happen! Documentary For The Recently Deceased just launched their crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo two days ago, and has already hit 9%[...]
The Trailer For The Simpsons Documentary 'The Problem With Apu'
When does comedy become harmful? It's a line that we've been talking about for years and a new documentary is looking to see where that line got harmful In this case it comes down to the The Simpsons and the character of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon Comedian Hari Kondabolu has decided that he's had enough of this[...]
temple of art
With a panel that included filmmakers Allan Amato and Olga Nunes, as well documentary subjects Bill Sienkiewicz, David Mack, Jason Shawn Alexander, Megan Hutchinson, and Dave Crosland, it was a panel that definitely should not have been missed. Filmmakers Allan Amato and Olga Nunes Temple of Art is a documentary film about, as described by Nunes, why[...]
Michael Moore's New Film 'Fahrenheit 11/9' Bought By Weinsteins
Michael Moore has been working on a new documentary called Fahrenheit 11/9 and you have three guesses as to what it's going to be about The documentary has been bought by The Weinstein Company to secure the worldwide rights for the film despite it still being in the production according to Deadline The "11/9" refers[...]
'Score' Is A Documentary For The OST Nerd In All Of Us
Score is a documentary about the composers that make our movies great by bringing these amazing pieces of music to life The documentary has a wide range of people they have interviewed from Hans Zimmer to John Williams to Junkie XL to Danny Elfman The best part, however, appears to be behind the scene footage[...]
horizon Samrat Sharma
credit//Guerrilla Games Dutch company VPRO has just released a 45-minute documentary that goes behind the scenes at Guerrilla Games to show us all the cool tricks they used to make Horizon Zero Dawn look amazing Honestly, this is pretty amazing as it shows you exactly how the world is rendered so that your vision of what lies ahead[...]
Noclip Offers New Documentary On 'Spelunky'
Which makes it the perfect subject for a documentary looking at the game's development, influences, and all the intricate details that went into make it a reality You can check out the hour-long documentary below, and if you feel included to help O'Dwyer make more, you can help him at his Pateron. Danny O'Dwyer has[...]
Twitch Expands Their Original Programming With Big Buck Hunter Documentary Ironsights
Social Media and stream platform Twitch revealed the trailer for their upcoming Big Buck Hunter documentary called Ironsights. This mini-documentary will be the first original documentary produced by Twitch Studios, the in house production company responsible for the Twitch Weekly and convention content. Twitch intends to experiment with creating original narrative and documentary content with Ironsights, so if it does[...]
Trump's Political Creator Gets Documentary With "Get Me Roger Stone"
And now, we have a documentary on him. Get Me Roger Stone will premier first at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23rd, and then will be on Netflix May 12 The trailer gives us all a glimpse into this mans life, which has been nothing short of insane In Trump's own words: "He loves the[...]
Sundance 2017: 'Unrest' Is An Emotional Look At Human Strength
That is something that the documentary Unrest is trying to help us all see, because there are times that illness isn't as easy as finding the answer and then fixing the problem Sometimes there aren't any answers and it means hearing a lot of people disregard you as 'stressed' or 'depressed' or 'hysteric' Jennifer Brea[...]