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EXCLUSIVE: Moby, the punk rocker turned electronic music pioneer, is the latest musician to get the documentary treatment. The artist behind Go, hit album Play and a storming cover of Mission To Burma's That's When I Reach For My Revolver, is to be the subject of Moby Doc from Rob Bralver. Greenwich Entertainment has…

EXCLUSIVE: Lisa Cortés, co-director of Amazon’s voter suppression documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy, is set to direct The Empire of Ebony, a documentary that explores the rise and impact of the first black media empire Ebony magazine and its sister publication, Jet. Cortés will produce the pic with Alyse…

Sue Kim, director of an Oscar-shortlisted short documentary about competitive Rubik's Cubers, can solve a complex storytelling puzzle in under 40 minutes. In The Speed Cubers Kim rotates between two main characters—Australian Feliks Zembegs and American Max Park, two of the fastest to ever solve cubes in…

In the span of just 13 minutes, the Oscar-shortlisted short documentary Hysterical Girl unpacks a lot. The film directed by Kate Novack not only elucidates one of Sigmund Freud's most famous case histories—on a suicidal teenage girl the psychoanalyst called "Dora"—but how Freud's writing about her continues to impact…

Greenwich Entertainment has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the documentary feature Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide. The film is slated to debut in theaters and on digital platforms across the country on April 23. The docu, which marks the directorial debut feature from Max Basch and Malia Scharf, made its…

EXCLUSIVE: MTV Documentary Films is adding Skye Fitzgerald's Hunger Ward to its portfolio of Oscar-contending films. The MTV division led by Sheila Nevins announced Tuesday it has acquired the short film, a devastating look at children suffering starvation in Yemen as a direct result of war in the Middle Eastern…

Focus Features has acquired the global rights to Edgar Wright's first documentary feature, The Sparks Brothers, about famed electronica pop duo Sparks. The deal brings the Universal specialty label back in business with the filmmaker behind their upcoming Oct. 22 drama thriller Last Night in Soho. Universal will…

HBO Max’s Persona: The Dark Truth Behind Personality Tests explores the history and growing dangers surrounding the seemingly innocuous Myers–Briggs personality test. Created by Isabel Briggs Meyers in the early mid-20th century, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator classifies participants into one of sixteen different…

EXCLUSIVE: (UPDATED with statement from filmmakers) After decades of legal wars between Woody Allen and Mia Farrow and various jurisdictions over sexual child assault claims against the Oscar-winning director, HBO’s Allen v. Farrow docuseries may have opened a whole new battlefield. Skyhorse Publishing is seriously…

Fresh off Sundance and a series of compelling interviews about how she chronicled the Covid-19 outbreak in China and its rampage across the the U.S., Nanfu Wang's In the Same Breath will have its New York premiere as the opening film in the Museum of Modern Art's Doc Fortnight 2021. The twenty-year old fest will be…

Skyhorse Publishing, which printed Woody Allen’s autobiography last year Apropos of Nothing, says that neither HBO nor Allen v. Farrow filmmakers Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick gained proper clearance to use portions of the auteur’s audio book in the docuseries. Ziering and Dick contend that they reached out to Allen’s…

George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures is teaming with Sports Illustrated Studios and 101 Studios to produce a docuseries based on a three-decade-long scandal in the athletic department at Ohio State University. The docuseries is based on Sports Illustrated executive editor and senior writer Jon…