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Nonfictionfilm.com exclusive: Airbnb jumps into documentary production

Company's first doc, Gay Chorus Deep South, to premiere at Tribeca Film Festival

Tribeca documentary jurors announced: NFL great Aaron Rodgers to join Orlando von Einsiedel, Julie Goldman, David Cross and more at judge's table

Festival opens next week in NYC

On centenary of Merce Cunningham's birth, new clip released from Merce-themed documentary If the Dancer Dances

Maia Wechsler's film about re-staging of a classic Cunningham opens in New York April 26 and LA May 3

A hard take on Hindu nationalism: documentary Reason wins Audience Award at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles

Anand Patwardhan's film decries India's retreat from secular democracy

Full Frame festival showcases F11 and Be There, documentary on one of America's greatest photographers 

Burk Uzzle's gift and humanity come into focus in film by Jethro Waters

New trailer drops for Ron Howard's documentary Pavarotti

Oscar-winning director's film on the opera great set for June 7 release

Aretha Franklin Amazing Grace documentary, delayed for 46 years, off to hot start at box office

Apollo 11 keeps rising, tops $8 million

Full Frame Doc Film Festival: One Child Nation takes top prize

Awards also go to Kifaru and Mossville: When Great Trees Fall

Full Frame showcases documentary on news legend Mike Wallace

Avi Belkin directed Mike Wallace Is Here, a portrait of a "star journalist" shadowed by insecurities

Full Frame: Director of Molly Ivins doc reveals existence of sealed box of Molly papers

Janice Engel brings Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins to North Carolina festival; says which TV personalities can be compared to late author

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Trailer drops for Seahorse, documentary about trans man who carried his own baby

Director Jeanie Findlay's film premieres at Tribeca FF this month

"Charming, charismatic, dishonest": Steve Bannon "deconstructed" in The Brink

Director Alison Klayman says she bit her tongue to keep filming as Bannon spread nationalist-populist message around the world

What I learned from my last conversation with Agnès Varda

The French New Wave filmmaker and documentarian died Friday at age 90

Show Me the Picture: New documentary on Jim Marshall, who captured incredible images of music's premiere talents

Nobody got closer, nobody took as many unforgettable photos as Marshall

Apollo 11 charting impressive course at box office

Todd Douglas Miller's film stays on top, nears $7 million

Musician Scott Walker, subject of acclaimed documentary, dies at 76

David Bowie, who cited him as a major influence, executive-produced doc Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

SXSW: 6th Street in black and white

It's the heart of nightlife during South By

The splice of life: Human Nature delves into promise and perils of gene editing technology CRISPR

SXSW hosted world premiere of doc directed by Adam Bolt, executive-produced by Dan Rather

Trailer released for The River and the Wall, upcoming doc on the Rio Grande and Trump's border wall

Beto O'Rourke makes appearance in Ben Masters' award-winning film

Video: One man arrested after shooting incident in Austin on final night of SXSW

I was nearby with my camera when the shot rang out

Documentary box office: Apollo 11 rockets past $5 million

Top three nonfiction films in theatrical release have tallied combined $40 million

SXSW world premiere: Documentary Tread tells bizarre "killdozer" episode in small-town Colorado

Director Paul Solet recreated homemade tank Marvin Heemeyer welded to get even with his enemies

SXSW Film Awards: Doc filmmakers get political as they accept major awards in Austin

For Sama, The River and the Wall, Ernie & Joe among the big winners

SXSW world premiere: Taxidermists get their due in Stuffed documentary

Director Erin Derham once found taxidermy repellent, until she got to know artists, scientists, conservationists who are preserving the natural world

SXSW: Award-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman unveil timely State of Pride

Documentary on state of Gay Pride festivals premieres as 50th anniversary of Stonewall approaches

SXSW 2019 opening day video

Docs shine as SXSW Film Festival gets underway in Austin, Texas

Beto O'Rourke gets a documentary, as do Johnny Cash and Richard Pryor

Apollo 11 rockets to top of doc box office, with boost from IMAX

Free Solo gets hefty Oscar bump for second place finish

"Entirely awe-inspiring" Apollo 11 documentary opens on IMAX screens today

Director Todd Douglas Miller found previously unseen material to bring the moon mission thrillingly back to life

San Francisco Intl Film Festival to premiere Q Ball, documentary on San Quentin State Prison basketball team

Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant executive-produced film about team members who never play "away" games

"Look how far we've come": a tribute to doc nominees who made it through Oscar season

Twitter reacts as Errol Morris reveals plan to self-distribute Steve Bannon doc American Dharma

Film premiered at Venice, played TIFF, but failed to attract a buyer

They Shall Not Grow Old about to eclipse Free Solo in overall box office

Both films are just shy of $16.5 million in earnings

Oscar documentary winners face unusual array of questions backstage

Free Solo's Jimmy Chin asked about what documentary he would make in China, Chai Vasarhelyi questioned about Hungarian heritage

Director of Lagerfeld Confidential documentary on the late designer's greatest regret, and the side of himself he kept from the public

Rodolphe Marconi discovered surprising dimensions of Karl Lagerfeld in his 2007 film

They Shall Not Grow Old number one at doc box office

Free Solo crosses $16 million mark days before competing at Academy Awards

Michael Jackson fans react with anger after HBO releases trailer for controversial doc Leaving Neverland

The film by Dan Reed depicts late singer as serial pedophile

Hale County director RaMell Ross to follow Academy Awards with role at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

He will curate Thematic Program dedicated to exploring "poetic modes of storytelling"

Skye Fitzgerald on the moral compass that guides his Oscar-nominated Lifeboat

He argues for compassion toward migrants in the Mediterranean, going against political currents

Apollo 11 coming to IMAX screens for one week in March

Immersive film about historic moon mission just premiered at Sundance Film Festival

2019 Tribeca Film Festival to open with The Apollo, documentary from Oscar winner Roger Ross Williams

NEON takes North American theatrical rights to Sundance hit Honeyland

Macedonian film won three awards at festival, including Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary

Documentary box office: Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old scores big weekend

Free Solo nears $16 million

Awards weekend: Free Solo wins a BAFTA, while Quincy takes a Grammy

Director Rashida Jones now has a gramophone trophy, just like dad

HBO announces premiere date for damning Michael Jackson doc Leaving Neverland 

Dan Reed's film, based on alleged victim accounts, depicts "King of Pop" as serial pedophile

Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

Report: Netflix spends $10 mil. to buy AOC-driven documentary Knock Down the House

Rachel Lears' film on Ocasio-Cortez and three other Democratic women "insurgent" candidates just premiered at Sundance Film Festival

Free Solo's Alex Honnold gets rock star greeting at IMAX screening of Oscar-nominated documentary

We've got video of fans lining up for their selfies with no-ropes mountain climber

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Directors Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert to receive 2019 Tribute from Full Frame doc festival

Announcement comes days after they win a major honor at Sundance for their latest film, American Factory

Doc box office: Free Solo becomes second-biggest film released in 2018

But They Shall Not Grow Old claims No. 1 spot over weekend

AOC A-OK with Sundance Film Festival-goers

They vote Knock Down the House,  documentary about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,  the Festival Favorite

Three Identical Strangers, The Silence of Others big winners this weekend

One takes DGA Award, the other a Goya Award

NatGeo takes worldwide rights to Sundance Audience Award winner Sea of Shadows

Thriller from Richard Ladkani investigates traffickers in "cocaine of the sea" responsible for destroying precious marine habitat

Sundance 2019 wraps with prize ceremony, honoring major fiction and nonfiction talent  

One Child Nation, Honeyland, Knock Down the House and more claim awards

Jambo Africa Drummers open 2019 Sundance Film Festival Awards

Sundance: Documentary thriller Sea of Shadows reveals how the hunt for "cocaine of the sea" is destroying the vaquita--world's most endangered mammal

Richard Ladkani's film feels like Hollywood action movie: "We felt like we were doing the true Sicario"

Sundance premieres documentary on surprising life of novelist Stieg Larsson

Yes, he published those famous Lisbeth Salander books, but his true passion was battling far-right extremists

Untouchable: Director Ursula Macfarlane and subject Rosanna Arquette at world premiere of Harvey Weinstein doc

Sundance premieres documentary on Molly Ivins, late journalist who skewered the mighty with wicked wit

Raise Hell director Janice Engel says of beloved writer: "The whole idea of objectivity really rubbed her the wrong way" 

Sundance video: Q&A after world premiere of Jawline

Sundance premiere: brilliant Jawline takes us inside world of "live internet broadcasting" where cute guys forge emotional bonds with adoring fangirls

Liza Mandelup's film plays in U.S. Documentary Competition

Of Bing and RaMell: Sundance Institute's Tabitha Jackson on a stellar year for Sundance docs at the Oscars

Institute's Director of Documentary Film tells Nonfictionfilm.com "There's a kind of visibility that we hope will embolden other filmmakers"

Sundance video: Filmmakers behind The Edge of Democracy

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Sundance: Sony Pictures Classics buys Matt Tyrnauer's documentary Where's My Roy Cohn? days after festival debut

Film traces Cohn's role exploiting the worst in the American body politic, and his mentorship of Donald Trump

Sundance: Shocking Leaving Neverland doc depicts Michael Jackson as serial pedophile

Dan Reed's film is based on graphic accounts from two men who say the pop star sexually abused them as boys

Say it ain't so! Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cancels plan to attend Sundance Film Festival

She was to have appeared in support of documentary Knock Down the House

Upbeat Robert Redford hints of new role at Sundance Film Festival: "I can move on to a different place"

Interviews with Oscar-nominated documentary short filmmakers

RBG in, but Mister Rogers doc shockingly snubbed as Oscar nominations are announced

Free Solo, Hale County, Of Fathers and Sons, Minding the Gap also make grade

Won't You Be My Neighbor? wins top doc honor at Producers Guild of America Awards

Producers Morgan Neville, Nicholas Ma and Caryn Capotosto share prize

From Oscar-winning director Thomas Lennon, a 'Sacred' experience

He documents religious faith worldwide in film now streaming on PBS, iTunes

Director of Period. End of Sentence. on filming in India where menstruation taboo is "one of the greatest in the world"

Rayka Zehtabchi earns Oscar nomination two years out of film school

Free Solo surpasses box office total of Three Identical Strangers, with boost from IMAX