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The International Documentary Association is announcing an open call for applications to its flagship Enterprise Documentary Fund and the Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund, with more than $500,000 to be awarded. The application window runs from May 29 to June 25 for non-IDA members; for IDA members…

Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, a new documentary chronicling Springsteen and company’s prep for their 2023-2024 World Tour, will premiere on Hulu and Disney+ in October of this year. An exact launch date is forthcoming. Directed by Springsteen’s longtime collaborator, Thom Zimny…

What is the purpose of police in the U.S.? To ensure public safety, many people might answer. But that's a thoroughly misleading definition in the view of Oscar-nominated filmmaker Yance Ford. In his new documentary Power, premiering on Netflix this Friday, the filmmaker argues policing in America is…

The hugely popular Scamanda podcast is getting small screen treatment. ABC has ordered Scamanda, a docuseries based on the No. 1 podcast of the same name. Produced by Pilgrim Media Group, a division of Lionsgate Alternative Television, for ABC News Studios, Scamanda tells the story of Amanda Riley…

ABC News Studios, Neon and Network Entertainment announced on Tuesday that Brats, the feature-length Brat Pack doc directed by Andrew McCarthy, will premiere on Hulu in the U.S. on Thursday, June 13. Set to launch on Disney+ in select territories later this summer, after world premiering at the 2024…

UPDATED with latest: The Oscars, strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like ahead as we cruise into Emmy season and look ahead to Cannes, the fall film…

EXCLUSIVE: Ellen Pompeo is lining up another project as she scales back her presence on ABC's Grey's Anatomy. The SAG Award-winning actress is combining forces with noted documentary producers Glen Zipper and Sean Stuart for the nonfiction feature The Way Home: Dogs of the Last Frontier, a film…

With support from the Nancy P. & Richard K. Robbins Family Foundation and Resonance Philanthropies, DocPitch 2024 has awarded five independent documentary filmmakers cash awards totaling $100,000 to help them complete their feature documentary film projects currently in development or…

EXCLUSIVE: A five-part doc series exploring the life of late South African President and freedom fighter Nelson Mandela is being readied with his personal archivists providing material. Dogwoof has boarded Mandela: Life (working title) and will launch it the Cannes Market this month. Directed by…

UPDATED with VOD release details. EXCLUSIVE: The American Psychiatric Association urges "ethical practitioners" to "refrain from attempts to change individuals' sexual orientation" and it supports legislation that would ban "reparative" or conversion therapies that purport to be able to change someone…

Netflix and The Blackhouse Foundation will partner on the Netflix Nonfiction Producing Fellowship, a year-long program giving rising producers from underrepresented perspectives the hands-on training, mentorship and experience to help advance their careers in film and TV production.  Five…

UPDATE: Per Dolly Parton’s publicist, she won’t be attending the Hollywood premiere of Still Working 9 to 5 in person, owing to a previous commitment in Nashville. However, the co-director of the documentary says she will contribute a videotaped message. Earlier: EXCLUSIVE: The stars of the 1980 classic 9…