Sundance Film Festival world premiere documentaries are lining up their next festival appearances. Jaripeo, Who Killed Alex Odeh? and the docuseries The Story of Documentary Film are among the projects heading to the Berlinale next week. American Doctor, Closure, Soul Patrol, Nuisance Bear (win…

A reflective Nelson Mandela emerges in Troublemaker, the documentary about the late anti-Apartheid leader and first president of a new South Africa. It's based on the memoir Long Walk to Freedom that Mandela wrote while imprisoned by the white-dominated regime and supplemented with interviews he…

Scottish Irish filmmaker Mark Cousins isn't afraid to think big. "It’s always good to aim high," he tells Deadline. "I mean, we can nibble at life and take it gingerly or we can gorge." He gorges on nonfiction cinema in his 16-hour series The Story of Documentary Film, an encyclopedic…

“I don’t want to put the power into other people’s hands as to what can be made,” says director Jay Duplass, talking about the perseverance of indie filmmaking at a time when the motion picture industry is being squeezed by conglomerates. Duplass was joined by fellow filmmakers Tamra Davis…

The Sundance Film Festival is regarded as one of the most prestigious independent film festivals, where filmmakers have been premiering their movies and documentaries since 1984. However, this year's festivities are bittersweet; the festival is bidding a fond farewell to Park City—its home for over four…

Beth de Araújo’s drama Josephine starring Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan, about an 8-year-old girl who accidentally witnesses a heinous crime in Golden Gate Park, took both the U.S. Dramatic Competition Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival Awards. In a tearful…

Following the Sundance 2026 premiere of their short The Worm, filmmaking duo Studio Goono (Tom Noakes and Will Goodfellow) is kicking off their feature debut. Princess Pictures has boarded The Answerers, Studio Goono’s dark comedy feature, which is currently in development with casting and…

It's a miracle Salman Rushdie is alive. In August 2022, the author was stabbed 15 times by a man apparently intent on fulfilling the late Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa on Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses. In the attack, which happened as Rushdie was about to participate in a public discussion…

Welcome to January’s final Insider. Jesse Whittock guiding you through a week of award nominations, film and TV news and more, as the industry moves into gear in 2026. Let’s start. Sign up to the newsletter here. BAFTA…

When basketball great Brittney Griner headed in February 2022 to Russia, where she played in the WNBA off season, she had no idea what was in store for her. Arriving at the Moscow airport, authorities combed through her luggage and discovered a minute amount of cannabis oil, which the athlete used to…

For Channing Tatum, starring in Beth de Araújo’s Sundance premiere Josephine made him look back on his own upbringing and think about parenting his own daughter. Josephine explores the fallout from an eight-year-old girl (Mason Reeves)’s witnessing of sexual assault. As her parents (Gemma…

Filmmaker Judd Ehrlich says Jane Elliott – the protagonist of his Sundance documentary Jane Elliott Against the World – is not one to self-censor. "She always speaks her mind. She always says exactly how she feels at all times," Ehrlich told us as he stopped by Deadline's Sundance Studio to…