Documentaries

The International Documentary Association said Richard Ray Perez has been named the organization’s next executive director. Perez, a nonfiction film strategist and documentary filmmaker, succeeds Simon Kilmurry, who is stepping

The Netflix documentary Dick Johnson Is Dead, directed by Kirsten Johnson, won two awards on the night, for Best Editing and Best Writing at the International Documentary Association’s IDA Awards. The editor is …

“The fact that Wiseman’s half-century-long project is a series of cinéma-vérité documentaries about American institutions,” writes Mark Binelli in The New York Times, “their titles often reading like generic brand …

The seventh annual ‘Docs to Watch’ panel on Oct. 25 brought together the helmers of ‘Boys State,’ ‘Crip Camp,’ ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead,’ ‘The Dissident,’ ‘The Human Factor,’ ‘MLK/FBI,’ ‘Time,’ …

In what is signaling a very good year for documentaries, the Critics’ Choice Association on Monday announced its list of nominations for the fifth annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, and …