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Emmys spotlight: Davis Guggenheim on why ‘Still: A Michael J Fox Movie’ is not "just another celebrity documentary”

2023-08-15T10:14:00Z

The Apple Original film is nominated in seven Emmy categories.

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Making ‘Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie’: “Michael didn’t want the ‘sick’ movie”

2024-02-12T14:22:00Z

Screen talks to the actor and filmmaker Davis Guggenheim about their award-winning biographical documentary.

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Paramount takes worldwide rights to Waiting For Superman at Sundance

2010-01-22T07:00:00Z

As the Sundance Film Festival kicked off today [21] Paramount announced it had acquired worldwide rights to Participant Media’s documentary Waiting For Superman ahead of the world premiere on Friday.

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Jeff Skoll closing Participant, Oscar-winning impact company behind ‘Spotlight’, ‘Roma’

2024-04-16T20:10:00Z

Founder Jeff Skoll tells staff: “It is the right time for me to evaluate my next chapter .”

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'He Named Me Malala' producers talk switching from narrative to documentary

2015-12-18T11:58:00Z

Producers Walter Parkes and Laurie Macdonald reveal why they changed tack to make Davis Guggenheim’s He Named Me Malala as a documentary rather than narrative feature.

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Academy unveils 15 doc feature contenders

2010-11-18T21:08:00Z

The Academy has announced the documentary hopefuls for awards consideration, with Charles Ferguson’s financial crisis investigation Inside Job, Shlomi Eldar’s human drama Precious Life and Davis Guggenheim’s education jeremiad Waiting For Superman (pictured) all in the mix.

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Malala: Nobel winner, teenager, documentary subject

2015-09-12T16:00:00Z

Malala Yousafzai recently spoke in London about the experience of seeing her life brought to the big screen in He Named Me Malala, which premiered in Telluride and plays at Toronto before heading to the BFI London Film Festival.

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Silverdocs reveals full line-up

2010-05-27T23:53:00Z

AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival has revealed the line-ups for its Silver Spectrum and Spotlight sections. The festival, which runs June 21-27 in the Washington, DC area, previously announced the entries in its three competitive sections.