#Documentary Film

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• 🇺🇸 Oscar Winner Steven Bognar Boards ‘Who Moves America’ As E.P.; Yael Bridge Doc Examines UPS Teamsters Contract Battle — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Bognar has joined labor-themed documentary Who Moves America as an executive producer ahead of the film’s upcoming appearances at the SFFILM Festival and the Austin Film...

  Related: #Labor Rights, #Industry News
• 🇺🇸 Appian Way Boards Conservation Doc ‘Snow Leopard Sisters’ As Exec Producer & Noah Media Launches Sales — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Appian Way has signed on as an exec producer on Snow Leopard Sisters. The feature doc premiered at SXSW and follows snow leopard conservationist Tshiring Lhamu Lama as she mentors 17-year-o...

  Related: #Conservation, #Female Empowerment
• 🇺🇸 Abramorama Acquires ‘American Agitators,’ Documentary On Fred Ross Sr. Who Mentored Dolores Huerta And Fought For More Just America — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Abramorama has acquired North American theatrical distribution rights to American Agitators, a documentary exploring the life and legacy of community organizer Fred Ross Sr., who mentored s...

  Related: #Social Justice, #Historical Legacy
• 🇺🇸 How a 16-Year-Old Chess Player Recruited Keanu Reeves to Executive Produce Her Documentary ‘Madwoman’s Game’ (EXCLUSIVE) — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  When Bianca Mitchell-Avila was 16 years old, she first had the idea for the documentary that became “Madwomen’s Game.” The premise was simple: it would highlight and empower the real-life women conque...

  Related: #Gender Equality, #Youth Empowerment
• 🇺🇸 ‘Steal This Story, Please!’ Review: Journalist Amy Goodman Is the Subject of a Glowing Doc That Should Rally the Converted — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  The "Democracy Now!" host comes across as a one-dimensional hero in a mission-oriented film that's arriving just in time for the midterm elections.

  Related: #Media Criticism, #Political Journalism
• 🇺🇸 Chinese Teen Roadtrip Film ‘Whispers in May’ Wins at Copenhagen Documentary Festival CPH:DOX — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Dongnan Chen’s “Whispers in May” won the main prize at CPH:DOX, Copenhagen’s documentary film festival, on Friday. The award, known as the Dox:Award, comes with a cash prize of €10,000 ($11,555). In “...

  Related: #Youth Culture
• 🇺🇸 “There Are Thousands of Stories Like This”: ‘THR Presents’ Q&A With ‘Self Custody’ Director Garrett Patten, Star Adrian Grenier — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  The short film helmer and his cast, including Michael Monks and Henry Cejudo, talk bitcoin and indie filmmaking at SXSW.

  Related: #Child Welfare
• 🇺🇸 ‘Time And Water’: National Geographic Reteams With Oscar Nominee Sara Dosa On “Beautiful, Painful, Existential Film” – CPH:DOX — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Filmmaker Sara Dosa is going from the molten to the melting, from fiery volcanoes to dissolving glaciers. Dosa earned an Academy Award nomination for 2022’s Fire of Love, the story of vulcanologists K...

  Related: #Climate Change
• 🇺🇸 ‘The Struggle for Mother Water’ Director Michael Zelniker Sets Sights on Policymakers After Berlinale Series Screening — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Canadian filmmaker Michael Zelniker didn’t come up through the traditional documentary ranks. A former actor who appeared in films such as Clint Eastwood’s “Bird” and David Cronenberg’s “Naked Lunch,”...

  Related: #Environmental Justice, #Policy Advocacy
• 🇺🇸 Yariv Mozer Doc ‘Blood Brothers,’ About Rival Iranian and Israeli Olympians, in the Works at Sipur Studios, Fox Entertainment Studios and Fulwell — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Sipur (“Bad Boy”), Fox Entertainment Studios and Bitachon365, a Fulwell Entertainment company (“The Kardashians”) are set to co-produce “Blood Brothers,” a new feature documentary from Emmy-winning fi...

  Related: #Sports Diplomacy
• 🇺🇸 Palestinian Documentary Filmmaking Takes Center Stage in Copenhagen: “We Should Win an Oscar for Pretending That Everything Is Normal” — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  "Updated Reflections on Contemporary Palestinian Documentary Filmmaking," a panel during the industry conference of CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, drew a crowd.

  Related: #Palestinian Resilience
• 🇺🇸 ‘Drift’ Review: Gripping Doc About Climber-Photographer Isaac Wright Will Give Even the Most Passionate Adrenaline Junkie Vertigo — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Director Deon Taylor balances backstory and action to deliver a biopic-ready documentary about a rogue climber (and PTSD sufferer) wanted by the law.

  Related: #Extreme Sports
• 🇺🇸 ‘American Doctor’: Director Poh Si Teng Takes Searing Film On Volunteer Physicians Treating Wounded Kids In Gaza To CPH:DOX — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  A sense of outrage compelled Oscar-nominated producer Poh Si Teng to make her directorial debut, the searing American Doctor, now screening at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. “I was very angry and then came de...

  Related: #Humanitarian Crisis
• 🇺🇸 ‘Summer of ’94’ Review: The 1994 U.S. World Cup Soccer Team Gets a Rousing Underdog Documentary Tribute — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Dave LaMattina and Chad Walker's film, executive produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, features Team USA favorites including Cobi Jones, Alexi Lalas, Tony Meola and Eric Wynalda.

  Related: #Sports History, #Underdog Stories, #Cultural Transformation
• 🇺🇸 ‘The Cord’ Review: A Real Hero for Our Times in Nolwenn Hervé’s Compassionate Portrait — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  Sometimes all a documentary needs to leave a lasting impression is a force-of-nature protagonist at its center. That’s exactly what first time filmmaker Nolwenn Hervé lucked out with in “The Cord.” Sh...

  Related: #Women's Health, #Social Advocacy
• 🇺🇸 How ‘Arctic Link’ Brings the Internet to Life on an Epic Scale With Images and Sound — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Ian Purnell looked to imbue his debut feature, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, with a "sensual connection": "We were often talking about what kind of animal something could be."

  Related: #Technology, #Nature, #Digital Culture
• 🇺🇸 How ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ Producers Helped the Subject’s Family Evacuate Gaza After the Film’s Venice Premiere — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Kaouther Ben Hania’s powerful and moving docudrama about the 5-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed by Israeli forces in 2024 while trying to flee Gaza, heads into the O...

  Related: #Humanitarian Aid
• 🇺🇸 ‘Baby/Girls’ Review: Doc Paints a Bleak but Judgment-Free Portrait of Teenage Motherhood in Contemporary Arkansas — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  Premiering at SXSW, the documentary from directors Alyse Walsh and Jackie Jesko profiles several young mothers who spend time at a charitable Christian group home.

  Related: #Teenage Motherhood
• 🇺🇸 ‘Baby/Girls’ Review: A Gentle Documentary on Teen Pregnancy With Some Strange AI Artifacts — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  If you could break down the documentary form to a simple formula, it might read something like “Time + Access.” Those are the advantages enjoyed by Alyse Walsh and Jackie Jesko’s “Baby/Girls,” which d...

  Related: #Teen Pregnancy, #AI Art
• 🇺🇸 ‘All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea’ Dives Into a David and Goliath Tale of Poisoned Crabs in North East England (Exclusive CPH:DOX Clip and Chat) — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  Doc director Jeanie Finlay ('Your Fat Friend') loves to go hyperlocal and give a voice, in the local accent, to fishermen and others who are not commonly heard or seen on screens beyond "poverty safar...

  Related: #Environmental Justice
• 🇺🇸 Cannabis, Consensus Democracy and an Alcoholic Black Bear Called Rikke: ‘Christiania’ Goes Inside Copenhagen’s (In)Famous Anarchist Commune — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Director Karl Friis Forchhammer, who was born in the community and debuts his doc about one of the world's largest social experiments at CPH:DOX, discusses its timely lessons for our age and making a ...

  Related: #Alternative Communities, #Social Experiment
• 🇺🇸 ‘Ashes,’ From Oscar-Winning ‘No Other Land’ Producers, Follows a Syrian’s Struggle to Bring War Criminals to Justice — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  In the early days of the Syrian uprising, Daham Alasaad was working as a tour guide in his native Palmyra, leading a group through the ruins of the ancient city. When a tourist handed him a camera to ...

  Related: #Justice, #Activism
• 🇺🇸 ‘Christiania’ Filmmaker on the Anarchic Commune That Battled With Drug Pushers, Biker Gangs and an Alcoholic Bear (EXCLUSIVE) — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  Danish filmmaker Karl Friis Forchhammer’s “Christiania” is a tale of anarchy, violent biker gangs, drug pushers and an alcoholic black bear, but also one of peace-loving hippies in search of a better ...

  Related: #Anarchic Commune
• 🇺🇸 Climate Defiance Documentary ‘Just Look Up’ Gets Boost From Adam McKay, Chappell Roan, Doechii, Billie Eilish & More – CPH:DOX — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: They’ve disrupted a high-profile charity baseball game, public appearances by politicians and fossil fuel company executives, and even a Broadway show – a production of Ibsen’s An Enemy of ...

  Related: #Climate Activism
• 🇺🇸 Former Storyville Boss Mandy Chang Becomes First CEO Of Documentary Film Council — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  Former Fremantle and Storyville docs supremo Mandy Chang has joioned the UK’s Documentary Film Council (DFC) as its first-ever CEO. Chang will lead the DFC at a “critical moment for the industry,” it ...

  Related: #Leadership
• 🇺🇸 Class Size 20; Student Body – Young Escapees From North Korea. True/False Film Festival Opens Doors To ‘School For Defectors’ — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  Imagine living in the dictatorship of North Korea, hungry all the time, laboring for no pay. You decide to try to escape into China, dodging bullets or the possibility of forced repatriation. Eventual...

  Related: #North Korean Defectors, #Education
• 🇺🇸 Luigi Mangione’s Fans Speak of Politics and Sex in New Short Doc From Rolling Stone Films — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  Director Liza Mandelup discusses the complicated tangle of politics, sex, beauty, and image that have made the 27-year-old accused murderer an internet folk hero and celebrity

  Related: #Celebrity Culture
• 🇺🇸 ‘The Alabama Solution’ Directors on Why Their Oscar-Nominated Film Is a Timely “Study of Complicity” — 03/03/2026 [USA]

  Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman also share how viewers can become even more educated about America's prison systems after watching the documentary.

  Related: #Prison Reform, #Social Justice, #Systemic Corruption
• 🇺🇸 Miley Cyrus, Billie Joe Armstrong, More Appear in Trailer for Billy Idol Documentary — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  Fresh off his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination, Billy Idol Should Be Dead hits theaters this week

  Related: #Rock Music Legacy, #Celebrity Influence
• 🇺🇸 Mother Of Victim In Oscar-Nominated Documentary ‘The Perfect Neighbor’ Remembers Her Slain Daughter: “She Loved Hard” — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  “She had big dreams,” Pamela Dias says of her late daughter, Ajike Owens, a working mother of four who was raising her kids in Ocala, FL. “She would kind of toss around different ideas, entrepreneuria...

  Related: #Social Justice, #Racial Violence, #Family Tragedy