Documentary Magazine

2 weeks ago | documentary.org | Vikram Murthi

Making a Production is Documentary’s strand of in-depth profiles featuring production companies that make critically-acclaimed nonfiction film and media in innovative ways. These pieces probe the creative decisions, financial structures, and talent development that sustain their work—revealing both infrastructural challenges and industry opportunities that exist for documentarians.

2 weeks ago | documentary.org | Kristian Day

I have been producing projects with director Dylan Sires since 2017. Our previous true crime docuseries, Taken Together: Who Killed Lyric and Elizabeth? (2024), took seven years to complete before it was sold to Warner Brothers Discovery at the end of 2021. I was also a producer of the Discovery ID series Queen of Meth (2021) and the showrunner of The Last American Gay Bar (2024) on OUTtv.

2 weeks ago | documentary.org | Amarsanaa Battulga

In 2024, 7 million livestock died in Mongolia due to what some say was the country’s harshest winter on record. Australian filmmaker Kasimir Burgess witnessed the disaster firsthand while making his third feature documentary, Iron Winter. The film documents two young herders, Batbold and Tsagaanaa, upholding a rural Mongolian tradition of winter herding—protecting horses from severe dzud and wolves by amassing them by the thousands and migrating for several months in search of better pastures.

4 weeks ago | documentary.org | Natalia Keogan

At Wednesday morning’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee hearing, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, joined by several House Republicans, argued for rolling back federal funding of  PBS and NPR due to alleged bias in their content and reporting. The brunt of the heat was concertedly directed at NPR, which GOP members lambasted for allegedly “violating journalistic integrity” due to the outlets’ coverage of topics that range from COVID-19 to Hunter Biden’s laptop controversy.

4 weeks ago | documentary.org | Lauren Wissot

Gail in court, in Baby Doe. Courtesy of Baby Doe, LLC Film festivals are all about discoveries, but in recent years, it’s gotten ever so hard to find true under-the-radar gems in U.S. nonfiction filmmaking. While Sundance long provided the latest crop of American documentaries to rave about, it’s now SXSW that increasingly seems to be taking up the national mantle. To be clear, Sundance is still the first stop for top-notch international surprises on these shores.