Finding distribution for independently made documentaries was a hot topic of conversation at the 20th edition of the Maine-based Camden International Film Festival, which kicked off on Sept. 12. Founder and CEO of Cinetic Media John Sloss, who sold the Christopher Reeve documentary ‘”Super/Man” to Warner Bros. Discovery for a reported $15 million out of […]

Points North Institute has appointed Elise McCave as its executive director. Sean Flynn has been named the org’s artistic director. The announcement comes on the opening day of the 20th annual Camden Intl. Film Festival, which is produced by Points North Institute. The preeminent four-day documentary fest based in Maine begins Thursday and runs to […]

Initially, “Hot Tub Time Machine” director Steve Pink wasn’t sure about making “The Last Republican,” a documentary about former U.S. Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger. As a self-professed far-left progressive, Pink didn’t know if Kinzinger, a conservative whose efforts to hold Donald Trump accountable for the Jan. 6 insurrection, was a worthy doc subject. “The thought […]

Over the last six years, New Jersey has become a top destination for film, television and, most recently, reality program production. The state’s Film and Digital Media Tax Credit Program launched in late 2018 under the leadership of Gov. Phil Murphy after being indefinitely suspended in 2010. Initially, under Murphy’s tax credit initiative, the annual […]

In the Toronto Film Festival documentary “Space Cowboy,” the triumphs and tragedies of skydiving cinematographer Joe Jennings are examined. Jennings’ desire to film an open-top automobile falling from the sky with four passengers sitting in the car is the narrative device used to structure the story. Jennings’ successful marriage and the decades he spent capturing […]

In “Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln” director Shaun Peterson makes a compelling case that Honest Abe was queer. The 102-minute doc features 20 Lincoln scholars and historians and never-before seen photographs and letters that argue that there is no denying that Lincoln had sexual relations with men. The film presents a […]

ESPN Films has greenlit a “30 for 30” documentary about Billie Jean King, which is now in production with Ridley Scott Associates and Story Syndicate, in association with Elton John’s Rocket Sports. The docu is being touted as “the unfiltered, untold story of how King broke the rules and proved her critics wrong.” The film […]

DOC NYC‘s 11th annual Visionaries Tribute gala will honor documentary filmmaker Alan Berliner, Firelight Media president and co-founder Marcia Smith, director Lucy Walker, and CEO of Chicken & Egg Pictures Jenni Wolfson. The gala will take place on Nov. 13 at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall and marks the opening day of the 15th annual DOC NYC film […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the topic of a new feature documentary, “The Bibi Files” produced by Oscar winner Alex Gibney and directed by Alexis Bloom. The two-hour docu, which will screen as work-in-progress at the Toronto Film Intl. Festival, features never-before-seen police interrogation footage of Netanyahu. The recordings were made between 2016 and […]

In “The White House Effect,” directors Bonni Cohen, Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk’s document how a chance to take real action on global warming was not just squandered but deliberately undermined by the George H.W. Bush administration (1988-1992).  Bush took office in 1988, which, at the time, was the planet’s hottest year on record. The former president promised […]