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Matthew Carey joined Deadline fulltime in 2020, after a long association as a freelancer, to specialize in coverage of the nonfiction film landscape. Matthew is a writer and producer whose work has appeared on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español. He has written extensively about documentary film for CNN and CNN.com, Documentary magazine, NBCNews.com and TheWrap.
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‘My Stolen Planet’ Wins Top Prize At Thessaloniki Int’l Documentary Festival; Controversial ‘Stray Bodies’ Earns Festival Recognition
Iranian filmmaker Farahnaz Sharifi's My Stolen Planet won the Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival today, automatically qualifying the film for Oscar consideration.
The film, which held its world premiere at the Berlinale last month, combines the director's memories…
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Why Did A Zoo Kill Marius, A Healthy Young Giraffe? CPH:DOX World Premiere Doc Asks Profound Questions Springing From International Incident
The story shocked the world 10 years ago: the Copenhagen Zoo's decision to euthanize a healthy two-year-old giraffe named Marius because they considered it a "surplus animal." CNN reported on it. So did Le Monde in France, the U.K.'s Guardian and The Independent, and the Irish Times.
The New York…
Academy To Restore ‘20 Days In Mariupol’s Win To Shortened Version Of Oscar Show Sent To Global Broadcasters After Ukraine Outrage Over Omission
EXCLUSIVE: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences plans to recut the 90-minute version of the Oscars broadcast it provided to international licensees, Deadline has learned, in order to restore a key moment it had left out of the original package: the Best Documentary Feature category won by the Uk…
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Wim Wenders’ Monumental Documentary ‘Anselm’ To Stream On The Criterion Channel March 19
EXCLUSIVE: Wim Wenders' stunning documentary Anselm will begin streaming exclusively on The Criterion Channel this coming Tuesday, March 19, following its theatrical run and world premiere at last year's Cannes Film Festival.
The film shot in 3D, which explores the monumental work of German-born…
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Watch Clip From CPH:DOX World Premiere ‘Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’
EXCLUSIVE: It may not sound like it from the title, but the documentary Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other is, in fact, a love story. A love story not without complications.
The film directed by Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet explores the bond between artists Maggie Barrett and Joel…
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Deadline’s Doc Talk Podcast: Breaking Down An Emotional Oscars, And A True Accounting Of The True/False Festival
If Vladimir Putin was watching the Academy Awards on Sunday night from his dacha on the Black Sea, his mood may have been blackened by the Best Documentary Feature category. As Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast had predicted, the Oscar went to 20 Days in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov's harrowing film about the…
‘Pol Pot Dancing’: Cambodia’s Dictator Tried To Wipe Out Classical Dance, But His Foster Mom Saved It – Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival
In one of the most compelling films to hold its world premiere at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, archive footage shows an apparently amiable man dressed in black sitting for an interview with a Yugoslav journalist. The year is approximately 1977.
"Comrade, you are the first…
Ben Proudfoot Wins 2nd Oscar In Last Three Years; ‘The Last Repair Shop’ Co-Director Kris Bowers Namechecks John Williams, L.A. Public Schools
For the second time in the last three years, the Oscar for Best Documentary Short has been claimed by Ben Proudfoot. The Canadian-born filmmaker and his fellow director Kris Bowers won the Academy Award tonight for their film The Last Repair Shop, the story of craftspeople in Los Angeles who keep 80,000…
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‘20 Days In Mariupol’ Earns First Oscar For Ukraine; Director Says He Would Give It Up To Save Ukrainian Lives, Hostages
In one of the most competitive races in years, 20 Days in Mariupol won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature tonight, earning director Mstyslav Chernov an Academy Award to go with a Pulitzer Prize.
The film from the Associated Press, PBS’ Frontline and GBH came into the night a slight favorite but…
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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Reacts With “Anger And Repugnance” To Anti-LGBTQ Attack In Town Square
Greece's Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival is reacting with shock to an incident Saturday night in which two LGBTQ people were attacked by a huge crowd in a square outside one of the festival's main screening venues.
According to local news reports and videos posted to YouTube, a crowd…
Thessaloniki Int’l Documentary Festival Hosts European Premiere Of Sundance Winner ‘A New Kind Of Wilderness’
The Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film A New Kind of Wilderness has bowed at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece, marking its European premiere.
Director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen attended the Thessaloniki premiere in person along with two of the film's protagonists: Freja…
Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival Screens ‘Navalny’ In Honor Of Russia’s Fallen Pro-Democratic Reformer
Alexei Navalny's sacrifice for democracy is being recognized in the place where the concept of government by the people first flourished.
Greece's Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival programmed the documentary Navalny in honor of the Russian opposition leader and democratic reformer, who…
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