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Together Films has acquired international sales rights to Zurawski v Texas, a documentary about abortion access in the US, ahead ofInternational Documentary Festival Amsterdam.

Directed by US filmmakers Maisie Crow and debut feature director Abbie Perrault, Zurawski v Texas follows a group of women denied abortions – some of them when severely unwell – who join with an attorney to sue the state of Texas in an effort to regain their rights and reproductive futures.

The film is produced by Crow, Perrault, Blye Pagon Faust, Amy Flanagan, Siobhan Sinnerton and Cori Shepherd Stern, for HiddenLight Productions, Story Force Entertainment and Out of Nowhere.

Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason have become pioneers in a new genre within the true-crime category, something they call “true comedy.”

The directors/executive producers earned an Emmy nomination for their 2019 documentary Fyre Fraud, about the luxe music festival that turned hilariously bad. Their latest docuseries, LuLaRich, from Amazon Prime Video, takes a comedic look at the rise and fall of LuLaRoe, a clothing company known for leggings that featured pizza slice prints, grinning pineapples, bespectacled canines and other fanciful designs.

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LuLaRoe was founded by DeAnne and Mark Stidham, a couple steeped in the ways of multi-level marketing – businesses set up like Amway and Avon that sell direct to consumers.

“They started in their garage and they had to keep expanding and expanding until they had all their inventory out in a parking lot, which led to it being infested by...

Bending the Arc, Kief Davidson and Pedro Kos' documentary about doctors working in a rural Haitian village, will serve as the opening film at the third annual Greenwich International Film Festival, which is set to run June 1-4 in Greenwich, Conn.

The film will screen June 2, followed by a Town Hall Panel Q&A moderated by Barbara Pierce Bush and featuring Ophelia Dahl (Partners in Health), writer/producer Cori Stern, Joia Mukherjee (Partners in Health) and Rifat Latifi, M.D., from Westchester Medical Center, discussing the state of global healthcare.

The event will kick off June 1 with its Changemaker...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for the 85th Academy Awards® has been narrowed to eight films, out of a submission pool of 31. Three to five of these titles will earn Oscar® nominations.

Three of the shorts on the list qualified for Academy Award consideration through Ida's DocuWeeksTM Theatrical Documentary Showcase this past summer: King's Point, from director/producer Sari Gilman and producers Jed Wider and Todd Wider; Open Heart, from director/producer/writer Kief Davison and producer Cori Stern; and The ...