On the latest edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, we welcome Sundance documentary programmers Basil Tsiokos and Sudeep Sharma to explore some of the most anticipated nonfiction films and ...

A new HBO documentary points to the programmer Peter Todd as bitcoin's pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Todd has denied the claim.

TIFF chief documentary programmer Thom Powers joins Doc Talk to discuss the festival’s 2024 nonfiction lineup, including The Last Republican.

But wouldn’t it be preferable to make a more engaging, more watchable doc instead – and one that documentary film programmers feel that their audiences should see?

It’s no secret that corporations like Netflix, Amazon, and Apple have lost their appetite for current event documentaries that tackle politics. The good old days when streamers shelled out seven ...

Our audience wants to watch people die really violently and really gruesomelyand have no care for them whatsoever,” ...

15 Documentaries Named to New Shortlist; Festival Programmers, Doc Insiders Unveil New Nonfiction AwNoting that other organizations seem to emphasize content and issue-driven work rather than ...

First computer programmers were women; they figured it out without manuals.

The 18th Camden International Film Festival in Maine presented a program full of Oscar-contending documentary features and shorts.

A group of film festival programmers explain what it takes to get a job doing what they do. Be forewarned: They do more than just watch movies. Although they do watch a lot of them.

But Sundance programmers aren’t making their selections with commercial potential as their priority. Between the fraught political climate and growth of right-wing documentaries and streaming ...