The Berlin Film Festival has demonstrated reticence about addressing geopolitical matters, but Cannes leader Thierry Frémaux is showing no such hesitation, at least as regards the war in Ukraine. “This war that Ukraine will not lose and Putin will not win,” Frémaux said of the full-scale invasion the Russian president launched against his neighbor in […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Olivia Colman-John Lithgow starring Jimpa and Goya Award-winning Maspalomas are set to headline Kashish Pride Film Festival, South Asia’s largest LGBTQ+ film festival that’s about to get underway in Mumbai, India. In Jimpa, the drama directed by Sophie Hyde, Lithgow plays the titular character, a gay senior living in Amsterdam who is visited […]

Sunny Side of the Doc, the international documentary marketplace held in La Rochelle, France, is about to open its 37th edition. It almost folded after the 36th. Faced with the cancellation of a key European grant, Sunny Side announced last December it wouldn’t happen in 2026. But a recognition of the event’s importance to the […]

Clarence B. Jones, a key adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. who helped organize the March on Washington and assisted King in drafting the Civil Rights leader’s “I Have a Dream” speech, has died. His family says the attorney and academic “passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, in Cupertino, California” on May 22. He was […]

Sundance, Berlin, Cannes – the world’s most important film festivals are embracing the latest work from award-winning filmmaker Mark Cousins: his 16-chapter The Story of Documentary Film. At Sundance, Cousins premiered chapter 1 of the series; the Berlinale premiered chapters 2-4 (as well as screening chapter 1). In Cannes, the Northern Irish Scottish director unveiled […]

For more than a quarter century, Documentary Campus has been supporting the global nonfiction filmmaking community through training programs, conferences, and Silbersalz, “the first international Science & Media festival of its kind.” Now the nonprofit is taking its mission even further. Doc Campus is partnering for the first time with Sunny Side of the Doc, […]

Actor Martin Short can go small, as in the movie Clifford, where he played a mischievous 10-year-old. Or he can go big, in a fat suit as Jiminy Glick, the portly entertainment journalist with the outsized appetite and outsized laugh. In fact, Short can do just about anything: sing, dance, sketch comedy, dramatic roles. “You […]

UPDATED with quotes from L’Oeil d’or winner Pegah Ahangarani and jury president Mstyslav Chernov. Rehearsals for a Revolution, director Pegah Ahangarani’s film about decades of political repression in Iran, won the L’Oeil d’or Prize today, the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize for documentary. Accepting the award in the presence of Cannes Film Festival leader Thierry […]

Ivy Meeropol, director of Ask E. Jean, the documentary about E. Jean Carroll who successfully sued Donald Trump for defamation and battery, is responding to reports the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into Carroll. “Unbelievable, yet not surprising,” Meeropol says of the reports by the New York Times and CNN which said the […]

Sheffield DocFest is adding to its program just a few days before the start of the 33rd edition of the UK’s leading nonfiction film festival. Announced Friday: Oscar winner Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna) will take part in what DocFest is calling a landmark conversation about the Up series, which began in the 1960s by chronicling […]

EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of Stephen Colbert’s final Late Show broadcast, his late-night comedy compatriot Seth Meyers is weighing in on the historic moment. “I’m heartbroken,” the host of Late Night with Seth Meyers tells Deadline in an exclusive interview. “It’s very sad to lose a colleague and even sadder to lose a time slot. […]