by Ammar Kalia on January 18, 2022

The latest in our series of writers unearthing forgotten movies highlights a moving documentary about a jazz musician killed in his prime A minute into Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers’ 1959 standard Moanin’, its bluesy piano refrain is blown […]

by Pat Mullen on January 17, 2022

Audience across Ontario can explore a world of documentaries next week with the return of ReFrame Film Festival. The Peterborough festival is back in a virtual edition with over seventy docs from Canada and around the world. Highlights at this […]

by Andrew Jeffrey on January 17, 2022

Realscreen is partnering with filmmaker and executive producer Chuck Braverman and his Westdoc Online video series to present his interviews with acclaimed documentarians and non-fiction content industry figures to its readership. In …Read More

by Pat Mullen on January 17, 2022

Three Canadian features are among the Forum selection for this year’s Berlin Film Festival. The Berlin Forum will screen new works by Lina Rodriguez, Jacquelyn Mills, and Miryam Charles. All three films will have their world premieres at the […]

by Andrew Tracy on January 17, 2022

HiddenLight Productions, the prodco founded by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and filmmaker/entrepreneur Sam Branson, has launched a new unscripted label and landed its first commission from Britain’s Channel 4. Vivienne …Read More

by Phuong Le on January 17, 2022

The past grapples uneasily with present as director Laura Plancarte examines the tests facing a couple as they plan their wedding in the rural west Thaddeus and Nanci, the subjects of Laura Plancarte’s intimate documentary, make for an […]

by Phuong Le on January 17, 2022

Firouzeh Khosrovani’s autobiographical film shows how the turbulent currents of Iranian life defined her family’s life Firouzeh Khosrovani’s autobiographical documentary opens in a grand yet sparely decorated drawing room, painted in white. As […]

by Pat Mullen on January 17, 2022

Summer of Soul and Flee represented documentary at the 2021 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Summer of Soul (…Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) won the Allan King Documentary Award during […]

on January 16, 2022

From cutlery classes to hugging protocol, Jessica Kingdon’s portrait of modern China captures a ghostly world of aspiration, consumption and waste In a business etiquette workshop designed to prepare prospective executives for potential encounters […]

by Tom White on January 16, 2022

January 15, 2022 Essential Doc Reads: Week of January 10, 2022 Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the […]

by Wendy Ide on January 15, 2022

Arnold’s film following Luma the Holstein Friesian through four gruelling years in the milking shed is raw, essential viewing The first documentary from Andrea Arnold deals, like several of her fiction films, with fractured mother-daughter bonds. […]

by Diane Garrett on January 14, 2022

Rep. Jamie Raskin, who claimed the national spotlight as lead manager of then-President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the waning days of his administration, is the subject of a new MSNBC documentary titled “Love & The Constitution.” […]

by Andrew Jeffrey on January 14, 2022

Netflix is set to premiere a docuseries covering the world’s biggest tennis stars, in the same vein as its successful Formula 1: Drive to Survive series and its recently announced project …Read More

by Justin Anderson on January 14, 2022

CNN Films and HBO Max, in association with Fishbowl Films, Raefilm Studios and Cottage M, are partnering on Navalny, a new documentary about Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption crusader Alexei …Read More

by Maori Holmes on January 14, 2022

January 14, 2022 A Kind of Time Travel: BlackStar Film Festival at 10 BY Maori Holmes & Imran Siddiquee Read more

by Barry Walsh on January 14, 2022

Disney+ is commemorating Earth Day in April with three original movies and specials, including the latest wildlife film from Alastair Fothergill and Jeff Wilson, and an Amazon expedition featuring Free Solo …Read More

by Andrew Tracy on January 14, 2022

Academy Award winner Alex Gibney‘s Jigsaw Productions will team with Black Bar Mitzvah and Nike’s Waffle Iron Entertainment to produce Sue Bird: In the Clutch, a portrait of the WNBA superstar …Read More

by Justin Anderson on January 14, 2022

HBO Max has slated a new docuseries, Take Out with Lisa Ling, which examines different Asian foods and the culinary cultures they come from. The six-part series will hit the streaming …Read More