The film is the latest streamer-funded, carefully choreographed, boring, celebrity puff piece being branded as a documentary.

“The Story of Documentary Film” is actually a 16-hour epic, and Sundance will screen the first hour, called “The Beginning,” to the public Jan. 27, 28 and Feb. 1. While Cousins can’t make it to Park ...

Director Mark Cousins explores 'The Story of Documentary Film' from the 1890s to the present in a new Sundance doc.

Just more than 200 documentary features qualified for Oscar consideration this year, a record-breaking number. With so many films in the race, it becomes a major challenge to navigate through titles ...

For many, it is, undeniably, a labor of love. “Documentary filmmakers truly are a passionate group,” says Morgan Crawford, executive director of the Chagrin Falls-based Chagrin Documentary Film ...

CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio — A new documentary about beloved comedian John Candy will open this year’s Chagrin Documentary Film Festival this fall. “John Candy: I Like Me” will make its Northeast Ohio debut ...

Some films catch attention not with noise but with the care put into telling a story that matters, and Saving Superman is one of them. Interest around the 2024 documentary has grown steadily, helped ...

Veteran documentary filmmaker Dawn Porter has been selected to receive the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival‘s 2026 Tribute award. The Tribute celebrates filmmakers whose body of work exemplifies ...

When Oscar winner Alex Gibney sent HBO Documentary Films executives an early cut of his new movie, “Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos,” he was blindsided by the feedback he received. “God bless ...