As industry consolidation continues, documentary films face a challenging path to supportive investors, wide distribution, and sustainable success. But the best documentaries of 2025 go a long way ...

Academy members will be asked to pick from 201 documentary features, 86 international features and 35 animated features. By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards The documentary feature and ...

Though narrative film can transport us to imagined worlds, documentary cinema often turns the camera back on our own. From incisive personal profiles to true crime investigations and examinations of ...

Fifteen films made the cut for the 98th Academy Awards. By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor, Digital The latest documentary by Oscar-nominated director Petra Costa (‘The End of Democracy’), premiering ...

The way we see it, there’s a yin and yang to documentaries. They’ve always had the potential to be deadly serious — now maybe more than ever, as a world awash in chaos spotlights such topics as the ...

Seven years after its launch, Taiwan-based Each Other Films is stepping into an expanded phase of international production, with co-founder and head producer Jacqueline W. Liu and co-founder and CEO ...

For many, it is, undeniably, a labor of love. “Documentary filmmakers truly are a passionate group,” says Morgan Crawford, executive director of the Chagrin Falls-based Chagrin Documentary Film ...

The 26th Atlanta Jewish Film Festival will unfold across the city between February 18 and March 3. Over the course of two ...

Welcome back to another Oscar season! I’m Matt Brennan, editor in chief of The Envelope, and each Wednesday from now until Jan. 7, I’ll be sending you a (digital) editor’s letter with some highlights ...