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October 21, 2024: DOC NYC Short Lists & Winner’s Circle Spark Award Season Discourse, IDFA Competition Program Unveiled, Hot Docs to Return in 2025
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2024
- August 19, 2024: Increasing Cinema Accessibility, NYFF Spotlight Announced, New Orleans Film Fest Titles Unveiled
August 12, 2024: Streamers Favor Celebs & Crime Over Political Docs, TIFF Docs Announced, Gotham Project Market Slate Revealed - August 5, 2024: New Participant Care Resources by Peace is Loud, RIP Manfred Kirchheimer
- July 29, 2024: DocuMentality’s Report on Filmmaker Mental Health, First Wave of TIFF 2024 Titles Announced
- July 22, 2024: 2024 Emmys & Jackson Wild Media Award Nominees Announced
- July 15, 2024: BAVC Media Bay Area Film Production Memo Released, Marie Nelson Steps Down at Hot Docs
- July 8, 2024: NYT’s Best Docs of the Year So Far, Grierson Trust & Creators Counsel Team on Legal & Compliance Training
- July 1, 2024: Circle Women Doc Accelerator Projects, Zentropa’s New Doc Division, 2025 Cinema Eye Honors Submissions Open
- June 24, 2024: Cinema Eye Announced Big Changes, CBC Responds to Open Letter from REMC & DOC, Hot Docs Announces Changes to Governance
- June 17, 2024: Going Beyond the CMSI Impact Report, Indian Docs Ride Global Wave & Ontario Feels the Pinch
- June 10, 2024: Doc Community Demands CBC Confront Anti-Palestinian Racism, How Doc Filmmakers Are Really Making Ends Meet, and POV Season 37 Revealed
- June 3, 2024: Conversations on AI, Ethics and Celebrity Profiles
- May 28, 2024: R.I.P. Morgan Spurlock, Fallout from RETROGRADE, Marcia Smith to Step Down as Firelight President
- May 20, 2024: ESPN Unveils 30 FOR 30 Summer Slate, 2024 Cinema Unbound Awards Honorees Announced
- May 13, 2024: Anne Thompson on Netflix Docs, Frederick Wiseman’s Catalog Now Available in Digital, Peabody Award Winners Announced
- May 6, 2024: Doc Alliance Award Nominees, Upcoming DocuMentality Report Release Event, Campaign to Save the West Newton Cinema
- April 29, 2024: PBS Wyncote Fellows 2024, Doris Duke Foundation Grants, DC/DOX 2024 Signature Screenings
- April 22, 2024: Sundance Courting New Host City, Doc Producers Set Best Practices for Generative-AI Use in Film
- April 15, 2024: AI’s Encroaching Presence in Documentary Filmmaking, RIP Eleanor Coppola
- April 8, 2024: Doc Filmmakers Lament Hollywood Cutbacks, Various Doc Funding & Fellowships Announced
- April 1, 2024: Ten Hot Docs Programmers Leave in Mass Resignation, Sundance Institute Announces New Event in Chicago
- March 25, 2024: Archival Producers Alliance on AI & Factual Trends 2024
- March 18, 2024: How the PRESS Act Effects Doc Filmmakers, Up Series Voted Most Influential UK TV Show of Last 50 Years
- March 11, 2024: 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL and THE LAST REPAIR SHOP Win at 96th Oscars, Hot Docs Issue Urgent Appeal for Support
- March 4, 2024: R.I.P. David Bordwell, ACE Eddie Awards Announced, Eye Filmmuseum Presents ‘Cosmic Realism’
- February 23, 2024: AfroPoP Returns for 16th Season, FOUR DAUGHTERS Tops Spirit Awards, Mati Diop Wins Golden Bear in Berlin
- February 19, 2024: Alexei Navalny, Subject of NAVALNY, Dead at 47, 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL Wins Bafta
- February 12, 2024: R.I.P. Filmmaker Robert M. Young, Oscar Season Controversy
- February 5, 2024: Oscar Noms & Sundance Business Sparks Industry Debates
- January 29, 2024: 2024 Oscar Nominations Revealed, Sundance Wraps Up, Kickstarter’s Long Story Short
- January 22, 2024: Sundance 2024 Brings Big Debuts, Industry Debates & Funding Opportunities
- January 15, 2024: 32 SOUNDS Tops Cinema Eye Honors, Sundance 2024 About to Commence, SXSW Reveals Film & TV Program
- January 8, 2024: Filmmaker John Pilger Passed at 84, 2024 Creative Emmy Award Winners, BAFTA Awards Longlist
2023
- December 18, 2023: IDA Documentary Awards, DOC to Celebrate 40 Years, Berlinale Announces First 2024 Titles
- December 11, 2023: 2024 Sundance Lineup Announced, SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD Wins at European Film Awards
- December 4, 2023: Doc Producers Call for AI Guardrails, the Rise of the Docu-Comedy, 2023 Gotham Awards Winners
- November 27, 2023: IDA Awards 2023 Nominees, SFFILM Rainin Grant Recipients, IDFA Audience Award Winner Revealed
- November 20, 2023: 17th Annual Cinema Eye Honors Nomineees, IDA Enterprise Doc Fund Grants, Catapult Film Fund Awards Dev Funding
- October 16, 2023: New Digital Security Platform for Doc Filmmakers, AmDoc to Honor Darcy McKinnon
- October 9, 2023: IndieWire Announces Art of the Doc Screening Series, PBS/Firelight William Greaves Production Fund Recipients
- October 2, 2023: News & Documentary Emmys, More Funding & Development Opportunities, Doc Censorship in Turkey
- September 25, 2023: Doc Funding Developments, Current Doc Sales Market, IDFA 2023 Initial Program Announcements
- September 18, 2023: Fall Festival Bonanza, Grierson Trust Doc Awards Nominees, Critics Choice Doc Awards Honorees
- September 11, 2023: TIFF 2023 in Full Swing, Harvard’s Doc Inititive Fellows Revealed, Independent Lens Fall Slate Announced
- September 4, 2023: R.I.P. Nancy Buirski, Fall Festivals Begin to Ramp Up
- August 28, 2023: Barbara Kopple Honored with Lifetime Achievement at News & Doc Emmys, New York Film Festival Currents Section Revealed
- August 21, 2023: Doc Scholar Patricia Zimmerman Died Unexpectedly, Development Grant Opportunities, Cinema & Labor Movements
- August 14, 2023: Impact Partners Doc Producers Fellowship Cohort Announced, Points North Institute Artist Program Recipients
- August 7, 2023: Doc Society’s Jess Search Passed Away at 54 & Growing Debate about AI Use in Nonfiction Film
- July 31, 2023: DGA Doc-makers Want New Agreement, News & Doc Emmy Noms, TIFF Docs Program Announced
- July 24, 2023: Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize Announces Finalists, DWU & IDA Ratify First Contract, 2023 Grierson Awards Shortlist Revealed
- July 17, 2023: Ellen Hovde Passed Away at 97, Will the Actor’s Strike Effect the Documentary Community?, New Industry Inititive Collaboration
- July 10, 2023: Doc Society’s Jess Search Stepping Down, Open City Doc Fest 2023 Program Announced, NFB Hidden Gems
- July 3, 2023: Shrinking Budgets & Distribution Woes, Doc Society’s Democracy Story Unit, IndieWire’s Best LGBTQ+ Docs of All Time
- June 26, 2023: DOC Institute Appoints Lauren Howes, Jamie Kastner Raising Funds to Keep Doc Footage Safe, Fair Use in Documentary Productions
- June 19, 2023: Unspoken Traumas of the Filmmaking Community, Indian Court Halts Airing of Doc, DocFest, Shanghai & Tribeca Award Winners
- June 12, 2023: DOC/DOX’s Inaugural Edition, Updates from Tribeca, BlackStar & Docudays
- June 5, 2023: CWA/DWU and IDA Reach Agreement, Storyline Launches Paid Apprenticeship Program
- May 29, 2023: BBC Summoned to Indian Court, Rooftop Files Doc Slots, Cannes Award Winners
- May 22, 2023: Pure Nonfiction Launch Producer’s Notebook, PBS Diverse Voices Initiative Participants Named, Sheffield DocFest Industry Program Revealed
- May 8, 2023: POV Reveals 36th Season, Deadline Launches Contenders Streaming Site, Peter Broderick’s Sundance Distribution Bulletin
- May 1, 2023: Hot Docs Celebrates 30 Years, Launching the Nonfiction Media Makers with Disabilities Survey, 32 Sounds Opens
- April 24, 2023: Subject of Sundance Award Winner KOKOMO CITY Killed, Field of Vision Launch 2023 Digital Security Pro-Bono Clinic
- April 17, 2023: Making Sense of a Changing Doc Market, IDFA Announces Year-Round Cinema, Peabody Nominees Announced
- April 10, 2023: Georgian Doc Filmmakers Fight Culture Crackdown, Alanis Obomsawin to Receive Edward MacDowell Medal, Documentary Magazine Printing Paused
- April 3, 2023: PBS Announces New Independent Lens Slate, Netflix Lays Off Doc & Indie Execs Lisa Nishimura and Ian Bricke
- March 27, 2023: The Rise of Docs at Wesleyan University, BFI National Lottery Fund Opens, CPH:DOX 2023 Winners
- March 20, 2023: Sara Archambault to Lead Harvard Doc Initiative, Netflix and Chicken & Egg Found New Doc Fund, SXSW Award Winners
- March 13, 2023: NAVALNY & THE ELEPHANT WHISPERERS Win Oscars, Duke’s Center for Doc Studies Hangs in the Balance
- March 6, 2023: Lawrence Pitkethly Passes Away at 79, Reflections on Images of Violence, New Directors/New Films 2023 Announced
- February 27, 2023: Navalny Wins at BAFTAs, AfroPoP Reveals New Season, the Allure of Regional True Crime
- February 20, 2023: Indian Tax Agents Raid BBC, BFI Reaffirms Support of UK Docmaking, Netflix Embraces Sports Docs
- February 13, 2023: First Look, True/False & Thessanloniki Unveil 2023 Programs
- February 6, 2023: Discussions on the State of Current Doc Market, Jafar Panahi Released From Prison, Anthology to Host Abigail Child Retrospective
- January 30, 2023: Curator & Critic Noah Cowan Passes Away at 55, India Scrambles to Block Doc, Academy Award Nominees Announced
- January 23, 2023: Funding Filmmakers of Color, Field of Vision Goes Independent, Netflix’s U.K. Doc Talent Fund
- January 16, 2023: 2023 Cinema Eye Honors Award Winners, Docs From India Gain Prominence, TIFF & Hot Docs Programmer Ravi Srinivasan Dies Suddenly
- January 9, 2023: New Report on Directorial Inclusion, BAFTA Film Awards Longlists Unveiled, Cinema Eye Honors Tickets Now Available
- January 2, 2023: 2022 in Reflection
2022
- December 19, 2022: Tom White Leaves Documentary Magazine, Field of Vision Goes Independent, Studies on Gender Equality & Festival Hybridity Published
- December 12, 2022: ALL THAT BREATHES Sweeps IDA Awards, Firelight Sets Doc Lab Fellows, Doc Community Remembers Julia Reichert
- December 5, 2022: R.I.P. Julia Reichert & Kristen Huntley, Kartemquin Films Moves Forward, Films From Iran For Iran
- November 28, 2022: Lucia Small Dead at 59, UNESCO Memory of the World Program Celebrates Documentary Heritage, Suzanne Guèvremont New Chairperson of NFB
- November 21, 2022: DOC NYC, Critics Choice Documentary, and IDFA Reveal Award Winners
- November 14, 2022: DOC NYC Continues, Cinema Eye Honors Nominations, Grierson Award Winners
- November 7, 2022: DOC NYC Set to Kickoff, CNN Scaling Back Signals “Troubling Times” for Docs?, Netflix Films Join BFI National Collection
- October 31, 2022: DOC NYC Approaches, IDA Documentary Awards Shortlists, CNN to Stop Buying Docs
- October 24, 2022: Cinema Eye Honors ’23 Announcements, JIHAD REHAB Conversation Deepens, Critics Choice Doc Award Nominations
- October 17, 2022: A STORM FORETOLD Used as Evidence, Firehouse Cinema is New Cinematic Gem, BBC Studios Announces New Development Initiative
- October 3, 2022: Emmy Winners; ‘Jihad Rehab’ debate; DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema
- September 26, 2022: Thom Powers Passes DOC NYC Baton to Jaie Laplante, Double Exposure 2022 Lineup Announced
- September 19, 2022: The Passing of Cinema Titans, William Klein and Jean-Luc Godard
- September 12, 2022: TIFF in Full Swing, Laura Poitras Wins Golden Lion, Eugene Hernandez Named Sundance Director
- August 29, 2022: Nonfiction Cinema & Social Change, New Black Public Media & Johnny Carson Center Residency, CIFF & Open City Reveal 2022 Programs
- August 22, 2022: Streaming Surpasses Cable for First Time, TIFF Docs Announced
- August 15, 2022: DCTV Set to Open Firehouse Doc Theater, IDF Published Ukrainian Film Curator List, Amazing Grace Back in Court
- August 8, 2022: Docs & Fiction Films Covering the Same Subject, Philippa Kowarsky Leaving BBC Storyville, BlackStar Film Fest Highlights
- August 1, 2022: TIFF, Venice & Open City Programming Announcements
- July 25, 2022: ICFR Pen Open Letter, Florence Almozini Named Senior Director of Programming at Film at Lincoln Center, Grierson Trust Shortlist Revealed
- July 18, 2022: Terence Macartney-Filgate Dead at 97, Truth Seekers Summit Programming Revealed, Doc Support Endeavor Subject Matter Launched
- July 11, 2022: PBS/Firelight William Greaves Production Fund, BFI Doc Society Feature Fund, Sheffield DocFest’s 2022 Award Winners
- June 27, 2022: Meet the Press Film Festival with DOC NYC, Abortion Rights Doc Makers Speak Out, Firelight Names Leticia Peguero as Senior Vice President
- June 20, 2022: Color Congress Announced Inaugural Grants, Emmy Rule Changes and An Increased Appetite for Experimental Docs
- June 13, 2022: Filmmaker Nick Quested Becomes Key Jan 6 Witness, New IDA Board Members, Tabitha Jackson Departs From Sundance
- June 6, 2022: Jaie Laplante Named as New DOC NYC Artistic Director, World Records Volume 6 Released, Sheffield DocFest Program Revealed
- May 23, 2022: Heddy Honigmann Dead at 70, FOCAL Awards Nom Shortlist, Sheffield’s Ukraine Focus
- May 16, 2022: Waves of Arrests in Iran, Speaking is Difficult, POV Unveils Season Lineup
- May 9, 2022: Firelight Media Doc Lab Open Call, Hot Docs Award Winners, True Crime Recommendations
- May 2, 2022: Another Screen Presents Six Brazilian Docs, New Issue of World Records Journal, Hot Docs In Full Swing
- April 25, 2022: IF/Then & Emergence Unveil Shifting Landscapes, dok.incubator Reveals Selections, Tribeca Film Festival Announced 2022 Lineup
- April 18, 2022: Goodbye 14-Hour Day, Peabody Awards Nominees, A-List Festivals on How Docs Can Play in the Big League
- April 11, 2022: IDA Recognizes Employee Union, Firelight Media Announces Spark Fund Recipients, 2022 Full Frame Award Winners
- April 4, 2022: Doc Filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius Killed, Question of Consent when Shooting in Traumatic Situations, Poh Si Teng on True Equity in Docs
- March 28, 2022: Summer of Soul, Queen of Basketball Win Doc Oscars, Pure Nonfiction Returns to IFC Center, IDA Announces New Staff
- March 21, 2022: IDA Recognizes Employee Bargaining Unit, SXSW Award Winners, Visions du Réel Program Unveiled
- March 14, 2022: R.I.P. Michelle Materre & Brent Renaud, Summer of Soul Wins Best Doc at Independent Spirit Awards
- March 7, 2022: 2022 Cinema Eye Honors, IDA Staff Exodus Continues, Roger Graef Dead at 85
- February 28, 2022: Solidarity with Ukraine, CPH:DOX Reveals Music Program, TIFF Unveils New Programmers
- February 21, 2022: DOC NYC Announces Search For New Artistic Director, Sundance Addresses JIHAD REHAB Controversy, Berlinale 2022 Award Winners
- February 7, 2022: The Case of of JIHAD REHAB, How Archive Content is Shaping the Music-Doc Renaissance, Cinema Eye Honors Sets New Date
- January 31, 2022: Sundance Award Winners, VR Docs, Chicken & Egg Award Recipients
- January 24, 2022: Sundance, Sundance, Sundance + PBS Partnership with Firelight Media, Retrospectives on Nanfu Wang, Jonas Mekas and NY City Symphonies
- January 17, 2022: Color Congress Launches, ATTICA Streaming for Free, Slamdance Starts New Streaming Service
- January 10, 2022: A Tribute to NYT Op-Docs, In-Person Sundance Cancelled, IDA Awards Go Virtual
- January 3, 2022: 2022 Has Arrived! Oscar Shortlists Revealed, Cinema Eye Postponed, Sundance COVID Safety Precautions
2021
- December 13, 2021: The End (of ’21) is Nigh – Best of Lists, Awards, Sundance ’22
December 6, 2021: How the NY Times Built Its Op-Docs Series Into an Awards Pipeline, Firelight Media Doc Lab Fellows, On Alan Berliner’s Home-Movie Collage - November 29, 2021: Oscars Doc Race Gets 100 Fewer Than Last Year, IDFA Award Winners, Get Back Reaches Audiences
- November 22, 2021: DOC NYC Award Winners, Who Killed Malcolm X? Leads to Exonerations, IDA Doc Awards Nominees, Variety Documentary Day Lineup
- November 15, 2021: Alliance of Doc Editors Release Edit Schedules, Cinema Eye Announces Nominees, IDA Awards Name Honorees
- November 8, 2021: DOC NYC 40 Under 40 List, Cinema Eye Honors Unforgettables & Audience Award Noms, IDFA Unveils Opening Film & Main Competition
- November 1, 2021: DOC NYC & IDA Awards Shortlists, BIFA Doc Longlist, and a Report on Nonfiction Storytelling on Gun Violence
- October 25, 2021: Cinema Eye Honors & Critics’ Choice Doc Nominees, Tributes to Diane Weyermann, Sabaya Consent Controversy Summarized
- October 18, 2021: Diane Weyermann Dead at 66, Field Of Vision Launches Global Apprenticeship Program, Redford Center & IF/Then Shorts Announce Finalists
- October 11, 2021: SABAYA Consent Controversy, Paris Theater’s ‘New Directions in Documentary’, Thai Cave Rescue Footage
- October 4, 2021: News & Doc Emmy Awards, LGBTQ+ Doc Banned in Kenya
- September 27, 2021: IndieWire’s Doc Influencers, Double Exposure Program Unveiled, TIFF Doc Reports
- September 20, 2021: ‘The Jinx’ Led to Robert Durst’s Murder Conviction, New Digital Security Platform & Clinic, End of Oscar & Emmy Double-Dipping Era
- September 13, 2021: Who is Holding Documentary Accountable?, How the Doc Community Can Help Afghan Refugees, TIFF ’21 Begins
- August 30, 2021: Announcing Black Film Archive, Programming Team at Sheffield Doc/Fest Ousted, Spike Lee Re-Edits HBO Sept. 11 Series
- August 23, 2021: Afghanistan & Documentary Cinema, Cíntia Gil Leaves Sheffield Doc/Fest, IDFA Previews 2021 Edition
- August 16, 2021: Truth and the Ethics of Doc Filmmaking, Cat Videos & Various Doc Festival Award Winners
- August 9, 2021: Sundance Institute Turns 40, Independent Doc Filmmakers Want New & Improved Funding Models, 2021 TIFF Docs Program Announced
- August 2, 2021: Fire at Cinemateca Brasileira, Comedy Doc Series Go Off the Beaten Path, News and Documentary Emmy Nominations
- July 26, 2021: 2021 Grierson Awards Shortlist, TIFF to Honor Alanis Obomsawin with Tribute Award, Inaugural Truth Seekers Summit Program Unveiled
- July 19, 2021: ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing’ Wins L’Œil d’Or, Doc Festivals Report 22% Drop in Selected Films During Pandemic
- July 11, 2021: Watching True Crime, Erika Dilday Talks POV, Mania for Long Docuseries Ebbing
- July 5, 2021: Queering Documentary, New Academy Members, AFI DOCS Award Winners
- June 7, 2021: RIP editor Lewis Erskine, Alliance of Documentary Editors Launch BIPOC Doc Editors Database
- May 17, 2021: DOC NYC’s Inaugural Spring Showcase, IDA Appoints Richard Ray Perez as Executive Director, AFI DOCS 2021 Announces First Wave of Films
- May 10, 2021: POV Season 34 Lineup Revealed + Can a More Equitable Doc Field Emerge Post-Pandemic?
- May 3, 2021: Docuseek & Women Make Movies Partner on Streaming Venture, Hot Docs Kicks Off
- April 26, 2021: How to Fix the Oscars
- April 19, 2021: Erika Dilday is New Executive Director at AmDoc, Microaggression in the Documentary Business, CPH:DOX ’21 Set to Kickoff
- April 12, 2021: AXS Film Fund Launches, IF/Then Shorts Announces Finalists, Catapult Film Fund Announces Latest Development Grantees, Upcoming Director-Producer Partnership Event
- April 6, 2021: Beyond Inclusion Calls Out PBS For A Lack Of Diversity, Opal H. Bennett Named Co-Producer at POV
- March 29, 2021: Prismatic Ground Announced, Actors in Documentaries and Hot Docs 2021 Lineup
- March 22, 2021: Spring Festival Fever Begins!
- March 15, 2021: Oscar Noms, RIP Leon Gast, Cinema Eye Honors Winners
- March 8, 2021: Theaters Are Reopening, NFB & POV Spark Launch Otherly Instagram Series
- March 1, 2021: Outlining Amazon’s Decision to Stop Accepting Docs, Telluride Planning In-Person 2021 Edition, Brett Hendrie Leaving Hot Docs
- February 22, 2021: Amazon Prime Video Direct Locks Out Docs, On True Crime and Abolition, and No Crying At The Dinner Table
- February 8, 2021: Sundance 2021 Wraps, BAFTA Unveils Longlist, Field of Vision & Lawyers for Reporters Launch Free Legal Clinic
- February 1, 2021: New Streamer Documentary+ Launches, Sundance 2021 Kicks Off, and An Open Letter On Filmmaker Moms
- January 25, 2021: Covering the Capitol Riot; Doc Filmmaking After Trump; Black Frame at Full Frame
- January 18, 2021: 2020 IDA Documentary Awards Winners, MLK/FBI Released, Laura Poitras Fired by First Look Media
- January 11, 2021: RIP Michael Apted, IFP Rebrands as the Gotham, Oscar Doc Feature Submissions Will Break Record
- January 4, 2021: Michelle Latimer’s Indigenous Identity Under Scrutiny, Khashoggi Doc Unwanted By Streaming Services, Village Voice Rises From the Dead
2020
- December 21, 2020: IDA’s Docs of the Decade, Sundance 2021 Program Revealed, 2020 National Film Registry Selections Announced
- December 14, 2020: 14th Annual Cinema Eye Honors Nominations, Obomsawin & Latimer Receive DOC Institute Honours, Docs on Public Servants Soothing in 2020
- December 7, 2020: The Whickers Cost of Docs Survey 2020, Sundance Offers Robust Online Platform, RIDM Award Winners
- November 30, 2020: ‘Decolonize’ The Documentary?, IDFA Awards, and the Rise of COVID Docs
- November 23, 2020: DOC NYC 2020 Wraps Up, Simon Kilmurry Stepping Down From IDA Post, Valentina Pedicini Dead at 42
- November 16, 2020: DOC NYC Documentary New Leaders, IDA, Gotham & Grierson Awards, Festival Circuit Rundown
- November 9, 2020: DOC NYC Reveals Short List, Distributors on Selling Through COVID-19, Peabody Awards Adds Arts Category
- November 2, 2020: IDA Awards Shortlists, IDFA Competition Lineup Revealed & Art of the Real Goes Online
- October 26, 2020: Quibi Shutters After 6 Months, True Story Launches, IDA Enterprise Production Grant Recipients Announced
- October 18, 2020: RIP James Redford, New IDFA plans, $100k prize for Alanis Obomsawin & more
- October 12, 2020: Justine Nagan to Exit AmDoc, Nanfu Wang Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant, AFI Fest & DOK Leipzig Lineups Unveiled
- October 5, 2020: Field of Vision Launches Online Journal, DOC Releases COVID19 Best Practices & IDFA Reveals Best of Fests Lineup
- September 28, 2020: Where Does Independent Documentary Go From Here? Plus, International Emmy & Grierson Awards Noms, DOK Leipzig Competition Lineup
- September 21, 2020: Hajooj Kuka Jailed in Khartoum, Documentary Producers Alliance Release Guidelines, ‘Inconvenient Indian’ Wins TIFF Doc Audience Award
- September 14, 2020: Carrie Lozano Joins Sundance Institute, BFI London Unveils Program & MIT Doc Lab Announces Fall Lecture Series
- September 7, 2020: PGA Releases COVID Safety Protocols, 41 International Festivals Call For Relief, Kartemquin Leadership Transition & more
- August 31, 2020: Fall fest news from TIFF, NYFF, IDFA & more
- August 24, 2020: Staged Docs, a New Study of Film Critics and Gender & NY Movie Theaters Remain Closed
- August 17, 2020: Behind the Editing Team Resignation, Black Girls Doc Mafia director Iyabo Boyd on Pure Nonfiction, NYFF & Open City Reveal 2020 Programs
- August 10, 2020: Brazil’s Film Archive Faces Wipeout, New Partner to Diversify Nonfiction Production Talent, Sundance Shrinks for 2021
- August 3, 2020: TIFF & Venice Lineups Unveiled, Universal & AMC Shorten Theatrical Window, 2020 Primetime Emmy Nominations Announced
- July 27, 2020: Doc Editor Jonathan Oppenheim Dies at 67, Maysles Doc Center Launches Online Series, TIFF to Open With Spike Lee/ David Byrne Concert Doc
- July 20, 2020: Tiger Production Controversy Breaks Out Over Representation, Telluride Cancelled Due to COVID19 & IDFA Forms Filmmaker Support Department
- July 13, 2020: A Call for Accountability, UK Cinemas Test the Waters After Lockdown & Fall Film Festivals Vow To Collaborate
- July 6, 2020: Kevin Rafferty Dead at 73, Academy Invites 819 New Members, and a Question: How Does Film Shape the Fight for Racial Justice?
- June 29, 2020: Fall Festivals are Making Big Plans, Others are Asking if Movie Theaters are Safe
- June 22, 2020: AmDoc Announced ‘Artist Mental Health Fund’ for BIPOC, North American Queer Festival Alliance Founded, Grasshopper Launched Projectr
- June 15, 2020: Black Defiance at the Movies, Academy to Develop “Representation” Standards, AFI DOCS & Sheffield Doc/Fest Announce Lineups
- June 8, 2020: Firelight Launches Beyond Resilience, Human Rights Watch Film Festival & More
- June 1, 2020: Street Protests, RIP Christo, HOT DOCS & More