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“Paper & Glue,” the feature-length documentary that follows French artist Jr as he plasters his provocative large-scale images of people in such places as the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the U.S.-Mexico border wall and a California supermax prison, has won the top prize at Uruguay’s inaugural arts film festival, Arca, which wrapped on Friday, Jan. 14. The prize is a bespoke sculpture by celebrated Uruguayan artist and festival host Pablo Atchugarry, valued at 60,000 euros.

“By exploring the great capacity of art to challenge perspectives and unite communities, [“Paper & Glue”] highlights the power of art and the work of the artist, which makes visible and gives voice to those who do not have it,” the festival’s jury commented.

Special mentions were also awarded to “La Intención del Colibri,” the feature debut of Uruguayan filmmaker Sergio de León, which chronicles the love story between late artist Ulises Beisso and his partner Juan Arrospide,...

Rep. Jamie Raskin, who claimed the national spotlight as lead manager of then-President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the waning days of his administration, is the subject of a new MSNBC documentary titled “Love & The Constitution.”

The 86-minute docu, debuting on the cabler Feb. 6, follows the U.S. Congressman over a three-year period, capturing his fight to uphold the Constitution during the Trump administration. Several pivotal moments in life will be included, including the loss of his son, Tommy, to suicide on Dec. 31, 2020.

Director Madeleine Carter began filming “Love & The Constitution” during the Maryland representative’s second year in Congress, when special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Trump was well underway, and Raskin sat on the House Judiciary Committee.

“My first day filming Congressman Raskin was July 4, 2018,” says Carter, who expected Mueller’s report would be out soon. “I also assumed that the release of the Mueller Report...

MSNBC is giving cable news rival CNN increased competition in the exploding documentary arena through ramped up acquisitions by a revived arm devoted to non-fiction programming.

MSNBC Films showed the seriousness of its intent in June, when it won an intense bidding war for “Paper & Glue,” by the visual artist and prior Oscar nominee Jr, ahead of its Tribeca Film Festival premiere. “Paper & Glue” has since qualified for Academy Award consideration, and is competing against documentaries including “Julia,” backed by CNN Films and Sony Pictures Classics. MSNBC also has qualified two short documentaries – Emily L. Harrold’s “Meltdown at Dixie” and Seth Freed Wessler’s “The Facility” — for Oscar consideration

“We’re cherry-picking projects that exist in the ecosystem, whether it’s content from studios, or from an independent filmmaker, or a production company,” explains MSNBC president Rashida Jones, who brought in veteran docu producer Amanda Spain as...

The French artist and photographer Jr — known for his enormous murals of faces and ambitious projects that seek to transcend boundaries, both physical and human — already has co-starred in (and co-directed) the Oscar-nominated documentary Faces Places. But the late filmmaker Agnès Varda, his co-star and co-director on the project, told him he should follow it up with a new film.

“Agnes had always told me, ‘You need to show more of your process and she was always pushing me that I show more of the layers of how the projects happen,” says the New York- and ...

Angelina Jolie really is a super mom. On Nov. 18, the Eternals star stepped out on the red carpet in Los Angeles the premiere of the new documentary, Paper & Glue, directed by French artist, Jr. At the Museum of Tolerance, the Oscar winner was joined by two familiar faces: daughter Shiloh, 15, and son Pax, 17. The trio was dressed more casually for the weekday event as compared to recent black tie premieres the family has attended for Eternals. Angelina sported a simple, yet sleek ribbed black turtleneck and skirt, while Pax donned a plaid shirt and jeans. Fit for a teenager, Shiloh's outfit included ripped jeans and a black hoodie. While Jolie and her kids have become a recurring red carpet...

Imagine Entertainment marked a trio of significant releases this weekend, helping to spell out Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s refreshed vision for their content shop after amassing development projects and biding their time through the pandemic.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature directorial debut “Tick, Tick … Boom!” saw a limited theatrical release via distributor Netflix, after dazzling the 2021 AFI Fest a week prior with Andrew Garfield’s leading performance as late “Rent” creator Jonathan Larson.

Additionally, the acclaimed “Julia” from documentarians Julie Cohen and Betsy West hit theaters via CNN Films, chronicling the life of Julia Child. As did “Paper & Glue” from MSNBC Films, about the ambitious and inclusive artist Jr.

Grazer caught up with Variety to discuss the emotional through-line of the releases and what’s up next at Imagine.

Imagine 2.0 has been brewing for a while, especially on the unscripted side. What’s the mission there?

Brian Grazer:...

French auteur Agnès Varda may be gone, but graffiti artist and photographer Jr continues the work they collaborated on, and documented, in 2017’s “Faces Places,” creating large-scale installations in which impoverished and/or fragmented locales are plastered with images of their residents. “Paper & Glue” is an unofficial companion piece to Jr and Varda’s prior non-fiction film, focusing exclusively on the former’s career, and while it certainly proves a similar celebration of art’s ability to give voice to the voiceless, and to build bridges between disparate individuals and classes, Given its outsized subject matter, a limited theatrical release makes aesthetic sense, but its box-office prospects nonetheless appear small.

“Paper & Glue” opens with the Varda quote, “If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.” Jr’s documentary both agrees with that sentiment and serves as its flip-side, contending that landscapes are comprised of fascinating men and...

It’s never too early to relive one of the few comical moments from the final, chaotic months of the Trump presidency.

“Four Seasons Total Documentary,” a film centering around Rudy Giuliani’s botched attempt to contest the 2020 election results, is airing on MSNBC on Nov. 7 — exactly one year after the infamous debacle.

The documentary is less about the then-president’s lawyer accidentally booking a press conference outside a local landscaping company instead of the lavish Four Seasons Hotel, and instead focuses on a small business in Philadelphia that was unexpectedly thrust into the national spotlight when it agreed to host a political event in the middle of the presidential election.

MSNBC Films acquired rights to “Four Seasons Total Documentary” as part of the cable news channel’s attempt to bolster its presence in the documentary space. MSNBC Films is a new unit from the NBCUniversal-backed outlet that will...

A fight for answers as to why their children were battling rare cancers forms the crux of “In the Dark of the Valley,” the newest acquisition by MSNBC Films, a nascent unit that hopes to build the cable-news network’s pipeline of longform projects.

The documentary tells the story of a mother in southern California who finds that an abandoned rocket-testing facility, called the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, near her home was the site of one of the largest nuclear accidents in the U.S. She examines the possibility that the site may have exposed the surrounding community to cancer-causing radioactive and chemical waste. “When our team was first introduced to the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, we were astounded by the difference a group of broken, but unwavering mothers could make,” director Nicholas Mihm said in a prepared statement. “MSNBC gives these mothers a voice, a voice that has too...

"Can art change the world?" A very good question! Perhaps it can...? MSNBC Films and Abramorama have unveiled an official trailer for the documentary film Paper & Glue, the latest feature directed by and about the artist best known as Jr. From the Oscar-nominated director of Faces Places comes a thought-provoking documentary that portrays social realities through massive, visionary art installations. Paper & Glue follows acclaimed French photographer Jr around the world as he builds some of his most monumental projects and inspires new perspectives that unite communities through his awe-inspiring work. If you first learned about Jr and his art projects watching the lovely Faces Places film with Agnes Varda, this doc takes us back through his entire life and career - starting out in illicit graffiti videos captured on Paris rooftops at night, to his adventures around the world installing pasted paper in iconic places. This looks fantastic!