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Maciek Hamela's Oscar-shortlisted documentary In the Rearview arrives on video on demand platforms this weekend — a compelling portrait of Ukrainian civilians fleeing for their lives in the early days of Russia's full-scale invasion. The Polish-born Hamela is both filmmaker and, in a real sense a…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired U.S. and Latin American rights to State of Silence (Estado de Silencio), Santiago Maza's documentary on the perilous threat facing investigative journalists in Mexico. Actor-activist Diego Luna executive produced the film which made its world premiere at Tribeca…

Picturehouse has acquired North American rights to Porcelain War, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. The film directed by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev will be released in theaters throughout North America in the fall, in advance of an expected Oscar…

EXCLUSIVE: Country music star Hardy is teaming up with Grammy-nominated songwriter Ben Johnson and writer/producer Dave Alan Johnson to executive produce the new docuseries Music Row, currently in production in Nashville. The indie project follows successful songwriters and artists in country music…

EXCLUSIVE: Daughters, the award-winning Netflix documentary set behind the walls of a Washington DC prison, will serve as the closing night selection of a new film festival taking place at California's San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. The film, winner of the Festival Favorite Award as well as the…

EXCLUSIVE: It may sound hard to believe, but John Lennon and Yoko Ono became daytime talk show hosts more than 50 years ago – the Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson or Drew Barrymore of their time. For one week only. The new documentary Daytime Revolution, directed by Erik Nelson, chronicles that pop…

UPDATED with latest: The Oscars, strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like ahead as we cruise into Emmy season and look ahead to Cannes, the fall film…

EXCLUSIVE: Going Varsity in Mariachi has landed its biggest gig yet: the documentary about high school musicians in South Texas will debut on Netflix before the end of the month. Under a licensing agreement, the film directed by Sam Osborn and Alejandra Vasquez will become available to Netflix…

Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV may have exposed the ugly underbelly of ’90s kids TV, but good things have come from the documentary series that’s up for Best Documentary at this year’s Emmy Awards. In Deadline’s conversation with the executive producers and participants of the Investigation…

EXCLUSIVE: Public television's KQED has announced it will present The Class, a documentary series executive produced by Daveed Diggs that explores high schoolers coming of age at the height of Covid. The six-parter directed and produced by Adam Fenderson and Jaye Fenderson of Three Frame Media is set…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee has boarded 76 Days, a documentary from Joe Wein, based on Steven Callahan’s New York Times bestselling memoir Adrift: 76 Days Lost At Sea, as an executive producer. Lee comes to the project after collaborating with Callahan on his 2012 Oscar winner Life of P…

Ahead of its exclusive streaming premiere on Paramount+ planned for this fall, the documentary We Will Dance Again examining Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel has been slated for a two-day theatrical run nationwide in partnership with Iconic Events Releasing. The film will first open at…