Source:  Hyperallergic Virtual reality offers intriguing possibilities for documentaries. Before the advent of workable VR, many saw cinema as the medium with the most potential to transport the audience. Now, you can strap on a headset and find yourself anywhere,...

Source:  Variety CNN Films became the belle of the indie box office this summer thanks to a pair of unlikely popcorn-season smashes. The film arm of the cable news channel produced “RBG,” a deep dive into the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and...

Source:  TIME Ah, summer! The season of superhero blockbusters and exhilarating action movies - enterprises that demand little more of us than shutting down some of our brain power and sinking into cushy stadium seats. But the summer of 2018 has put a wrinkle in that...

Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special Icarus (Netflix) Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (Netflix) Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like (PBS) Spielberg (HBO) The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (HBO) Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series American Masters (PBS)...

Source:  Deadline Imagine Entertainment Chairmen Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have launched Imagine Documentaries, a venture to develop and produce feature documentaries and non-scripted television projects. Grazer and Howard have named Justin Wilkes to run the...

Source:  Bloomberg Billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steve Jobs, is investing more of her fortune in Hollywood by backing a movie studio alongside Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Emerson Collective...

Source:  Fast Company Netflix has launched a new podcast series that will take fans behind the scenes of its growing library of original documentaries like "Making a Murderer," "The Keepers," "13th," the new Rachel Dolezal doc, "The Rachel Divide," and this year's...

Source:  Los Angeles Times On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a series of new rules for next year's Oscars  — most notably, a new regulation that could potentially expand the number of documentary features eligible for awards...

Source:  Entertainment Weekly After striking a chord during the Winter Olympics, "Icarus" made an impression during the Oscars. The documentary from director Bryan Fogel about Russia’s state-sanctioned doping program earned the award for Best Documentary Feature...

Source:  Realscreen Frank Stiefel’s "Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405" was named Best Documentary Short at the 90th Academy Awards held in Los Angeles last night. The doc features 56-year-old artist Mindy Alper, who has spent nearly all of her life battling...

Source:  IndieWire Best Documentary Feature Oscar nominee “Last Men in Aleppo” recently made history by becoming the first film from a Syrian directing-producing team to garner Academy recognition. Yet for the filmmakers — who say they have just learned that Syria...

Source:  The Wrap Yance Ford’s harrowing Netflix documentary about race and the justice system, “Strong Island,” took the two top awards, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking and Outstanding Achievement in Direction, at the 11th Annual Cinema Eye...

Source:  IndieWire The Best Picture shortlist for the upcoming Academy Awards recently set a record for its depth: 341 titles, revealing little about the expected contenders for film’s most-coveted prize. But just ten films are on the shortlist for Best Documentary...

Source:  Variety Sheila Nevins, the president of HBO Documentary Films, is leaving the cable network after 38 years. Nevins, 78, has presided over the non-fiction arm of HBO to tremendous acclaim, producing over 1,000 documentaries and amassing a collection of awards...

Source:  Variety The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 15 films in the Documentary Feature category that will advance in the voting process for the 90th Academy Awards. The 15 titles were chosen by voters from the Academy’s documentary...

Source:  Variety The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has selected ten films as contenders for the documentary short subject category for the 90th Academy Awards. The ten titles were chosen by voters from the Academy’s documentary branch, who viewed this...