Wim Wenders has boarded “Truth:Beauty,” a feature documentary about legendary German fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh, as executive producer. The project, produced by Maja Hoffmann and Human Humans, will mark the feature directorial debut of French novelist Alexandra Matine, whose books include “Scopophilia” and “La Pire Amie du monde.” Matine is also writing the film, which
On Friday morning, Shivon Zilis, a top executive and lieutenant of Elon Musk at his brain chip implant company Neuralink—as well as mother of four of the 14 children he is known to have fathered—took to his social media platform, X, to announce an abrupt shift in their relationship. “It’s hard to go from in
Mohammed Ali Naqvi’s documentary thriller “Hanging by a Wire” has been selected as Pakistan‘s submission for the international feature film Oscar at the 99th Academy Awards, marking the first time a documentary has represented the country in the category. The Pakistan Academy Selection Committee made the selection, calling it a historic milestone for Pakistani documentary
Leading documentary festival IDFA has added more than 100 films to its 39th edition, which runs from Nov. 12 to 22 in Amsterdam. Among the newly announced titles are those for the short documentary competition, and the sections titled Signed, Best of Fests and Paradocs. The new media program, DocLab, has also unveiled the first
At least one social media company appears to be reversing its stance on whether it will accept advertising for director Alex Gibney’s upcoming documentary about Elon Musk. The Hollywood Reporter published a story Friday saying that TikTok, Meta, YouTube, and X had all refused to run paid ads promoting the trailer for “Musk.” However, when
The Netflix documentary series “Beyond Society” (“Más Allá de la Sociedad”) had its world premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival on September 23. The three-part doc series, created by Juan Antonio Bayona (“Society of the Snow,” “The Impossible,” “A Monster Calls”) and Carlos Torres (“Pajares & CIA,” “Crims”), picks up where Bayona’s film
