In this interview, codirectors Bàrbara Mestanza and Marc Pujolar discuss finding healing and closure from a sexual assault in their Sheffield DocFest winner, Filthy

In this conversation, Keith Wilson talks about the value of critiquing the field with his live cinema performance on awards season madness, Pleased to Announce

The Whispers in May and After the Rain cinematographer breaks down why he deems his close-to-30-pound bag indispensable

In its 23rd edition, the Danish festival privileged fresh new voices and projects that put cocreation at their center

Friends and colleagues pay tribute to the late ‘A Time for Burning’ filmmaker and Quest Productions founder.

In this behind-the-scenes peek, a Berlin-based filmmaker recounts the trying journey to make his Paraguay-set doc

At the 60th edition of the Czech film festival, nonfiction storytellers called into question documentary’s ability to conjure proximity with its subjects

This year’s Chicago-based independent film exhibition conference was buoyed by optimism and a clear-eyed look at the future of arthouse theaters

Despite working within institutions with rigid ideological missions, Iranian documentary filmmakers have long found ways to produce work according to their own aesthetic choices and goals

In this interview, Maite Alberdi discusses using fanciful fiction and true crime tropes to dissect society’s expectations of motherhood in A Child of My Own

In this behind-the-scenes peek, journalist-turned-filmmaker Janay Boulos details how the idea for an urgent, political project about Lebanon became the very personal doc Birds of War

Penny Lane on crowdsourcing video from New York’s birders, audience engagement, and premiering her eighth feature Wild Inside in Central Park

In this interview, the filmmakers behind a personal doc that unearths the fraught shared history between France and Algeria talk about the parallels between colonial and sexual violence

Watch the trailer for Lars and Torsten Brinkema’s debut feature, which documents Olympic cross-country skier Jessie Diggins’ struggle with an eating disorder

The WTO/99 producer/editor explains the purpose, lingo, and cost strategy behind theatrical booking for independently released films

In this interview, Rajee Samarasinghe discusses making the limits of documentary practice visible in his short about forced disappearances in Sri Lanka, A Flower Falling Back Into the Earth

With the rise of AI documentaries, we outline the worrying tropes these projects can’t seem to escape

Long mired in the colonial legacy since its inception, ethnographic documentary has recently undergone a notable shift toward collaborative and introspective modes of representation

From Sinophone refuge to listening sessions, the 15th TIDF stakes its rigorous programming on the value of removal

With Time Machine Maidan, the Ukrainian film collective Babylon’13 blends the immediacy of its own vast war archive with an artful take on a sci-fi film

In this interview, filmmaker Tom Fontenille talks about grappling with grief and needing to completely overhaul his queer family doc, A Secret Heart

The company agreed to a proposed freeze until June 2027, unless a judge issues a ruling before then on a lawsuit blocking the deal.

In this interview, Getting Real ’26 keynote speaker Petna Ndaliko Katondolo discusses the practice of ancestral ecology storytelling and using documentary’s capacity to create and rethink community

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In this interview, directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal break down the platform release strategy for Steal This Story, Please!, which has yielded a box office gross of more than $1 million already

In this interview, Jackass: Best and Last director Jeff Tremaine talks about mining and shaping the original MTV show’s vast digital archive to celebrate its 25th anniversary

Mandy Chang, recently appointed chief executive officer of the Documentary Film Council, on leveraging her decades-long experience to move beyond diagnosing problems and organize around them instead

In this interview, Demos fellow Sameer Padania talks about the need for trust and independence in public media ahead of the BBC’s 2027 charter renewal

Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig on why he prioritized the personal over the political in his Mongolian mining doc, Colors of White Rock

Three core members of Tikkun Olam Productions on unlearning the conventional model and what the nonprofit collective making movement-aligned work actually looks like from the inside

A friend and colleague pays tribute to the late cinematographer and director who worked on Gimme Shelter, Harlan County, USA, and more

Fuera de Campo, a political initiative committed to showcasing Argentine cinema, found a fitting 2025 opener in Lucas Gallo’s televisual archive doc on the country’s 2001 financial crisis, December

In this interview, Jackass: Best and Last director Jeff Tremaine talks about mining and shaping the original MTV show’s vast digital archive to celebrate its 25th anniversary

In this interview, the trio behind the Tribeca doc The Haunting of Pennhurst discuss the challenges of braiding together the story of an infamous asylum that’s now both a haunted house and a museum of...

Documentary’s “Greatest Docs of the 21st Century” lists are filled with documentary portraits that flatter and model a way of looking at the world

The Citizenfour cinematographer and Flood director on her “simple and vital” camera bag philosophy

A new program on Cinema-ye Azad, an underground filmmaking movement that emerged in Iran in 1969, foregrounds its relationship to documentary practice

The editor of Spermworld and How to Blow Up a Pipeline on valuing portability and good sound

Watch a on-demand screening presentation of ESPN's 30 for 30, followed by a panel conversation with producer Carolyn Hepburn, producer Marquis Daisy, Director of Boo-Yah: A Portrait of Stuart Scott, A...

The documentary world is expanding, and Getting Real ’26 is here to examine what that means. This summer, we will explore what it might mean to bridge the gap between industrial reality and the expand...

Daily diaries from a first-time director navigating the Visions du Réel financing market, praising the event’s intimacy and her “comrades-in-stress”

Second Nature director, Drew Denny, and co-producer Jennifer Steinman-Sternin talk taking theatrical distribution into their own hands to get their queer nature doc seen

Želimir Žilnik discusses six decades of work from his early films to Eighty Plus, and their piercing, political critiques of Yugoslavia and modern-day Serbia

As mergers and media corporations squeeze doc divisions, veteran nonfiction producers seek partners and pivots

Join us for a screening of ESPN’s acclaimed documentary series ’30 for 30’ at NYA Studios West, followed by a panel conversation with producer Carolyn Hepburn, moderated by DEADLINE’s Matthew Carey. F...

Presented by Amazon MGM Studios x IDA (International Documentary Association) Watch a on-demand screening of John Candy: I Like Me, followed by a recorded conversation with COLIN HANKS (Director/Produ...