MetFilm Sales has acquired international sales rights to Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić’s feature documentary “To Hold a Mountain,” which recently received its world premiere at the Sundance…
Read more MetFilm Boards Sundance Awards Winner ‘To Hold a Mountain’ for International Sales (EXCLUSIVE)Documentary filmmakers Eugene Jarecki and Ross McElwee, winners of the Golden Globes Prize for Documentary, were feted at a cocktail reception in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening. The…
Read more Golden Globes Honors Documentary Prize Winners Eugene Jarecki and Ross McElweeIn the upcoming doc “Newville,” Pisie Hochheim and Tony Oswald follow 10 siblings who “cover the entire American political spectrum.” “They have many different spiritual beliefs and lifestyles.…
Read more In ‘Newville,’ Pisie Hochheim and Tony Oswald Take on a Family That ‘Covers the Entire American Political Spectrum’ and a House That ‘Resists’ ThemIn Vitaly Mansky’s arresting portrait of life during wartime, “Time to the Target,” he allows audiences to breathe, to absorb the smallest details and even, somehow, to laugh…
Read more ‘Time to the Target’ Director on How Bruegel Influenced His Portrait of Hometown Lviv Under Russian FireCzech documentarian Tatana Markova says she became intrigued by her subject in “Kingdom of Soap Bubbles” – a once-great Bohemian dynasty that’s been nearly forgotten – after meeting…
Read more ‘Soap Bubbles’ Tracks Down a Long-Gone Bohemian Dynasty: ‘A Big Industrial Empire Can Burst Like a Bubble’In “The Last Dive,” director Cody Sheehy follows Terry Kennedy, an ex-Hell’s Angel-turned manta ray conservationist, on a personal journey to Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. After a stint…
Read more ‘The Last Dive’ Director Talks Manta Rays, Writing Documentaries and Camden International Film FestivalTwo longtime friends will make for among Venice’s most-discussed red-carpet pairings. Sofia Coppola is the director of “Marc by Sofia,” a new A24 documentary premiering at Venice Sept.…
Read more Sofia Coppola and Marc Jacobs on Venice Festival Doc ‘Marc by Sofia’: ‘I Felt Very Comfortable Exposing Everything to Sofia‘Production has begun on “Izzy,” a feature documentary about late fashion designer Isabel Toledo. Directed by Chiara Clemente, the film will chronicle Toledo’s life with her husband and…
Read more ‘Izzy’ Documentary About Late Fashion Designer Isabel Toledo Begins Production (EXCLUSIVE)Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival has revealed to Variety the projects that the participants of its 2024 Emerging Producers program are working on. The producers were asked to deliver…
Read more Ji.hlava’s Emerging Producers Reveal Pitches for Upcoming Projects (EXCLUSIVE)Berlinale Forum entry “Shahid,” the debut feature of Iranian-German filmmaker Narges Kalhor, has been picked up by Prague-based doc specialist Filmotor ahead of its premiere at Swiss documentary…
Read more Filmotor Nabs World Sales for Berlinale Title ‘Shahid’ Ahead of Visions du Réel Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)“Long Live the Tyrant: Life and Times of Giancarlo DiTrapano,” a feature documentary about the independent book publisher, is being developed as an Italy-U.S. coproduction. DiTrapano is described…
Read more ‘Long Live the Tyrant,’ About Publisher Giancarlo DiTrapano, the ‘Basquiat of the New York Literary Scene,’ Eyes Spring Shoot (EXCLUSIVE)European Film Promotion has unveiled the seventh edition of the Changing Face of Europe, a section that runs as part of Toronto documentary festival Hot Docs, which runs…
Read more ‘Kelly,’ Norwegian Democrazy,’ ‘Women of God’ Among European Section at Hot Docs“Her Smell” director Alex Ross Perry is developing two nonfiction projects, including the as-yet-untitled doc about video stores. “I can’t speak for everybody but yeah, I miss them,”…
Read more ‘Her Smell’ Director Alex Ross Perry Talks Nonfiction Projects About Video Stores, Indie Rock Band Pavement: ‘They Are Examinations of the Unexamined Era’Paris-based Reservoir Docs has acquired worldwide sales rights excluding Italy to “A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things,” a theatrical documentary by Scottish-Irish director Mark Cousins, featuring the voice…
Read more Reservoir Docs Boards Mark Cousins Doc ‘A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things,’ Featuring Tilda Swinton (EXCLUSIVE)
