Matthew Carey joined Deadline fulltime in 2020, after a long association as a freelancer, to specialize in coverage of the nonfiction film landscape. Matthew is a writer and producer whose work has appeared on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español. He has written extensively about documentary film for CNN and CNN.com, Documentary magazine, NBCNews.com and TheWrap.
The Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival has announced its competition lineups for the March event, a slate of world, international and European premieres hailing from Greece, Paraguay, Kyrgyzstan, Israel, Kenya, the U.S. and other parts of the globe.
The 10 films chosen for…
UPDATED with details about 2015 Oscar-nominated documentary Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah. There can be no doubt about the most important documentary to screen at the Berlin Film Festival this year – one released 40 years ago.
The festival is showing Claude Lanzmann's monumental Shoah…
It is one of the sad ironies of war that even as it lays waste to countries, conflict on that scale can lead to great works of cinema.
The brutal civil war in Syria resulted in several Oscar-nominated documentary features – Last Men in Aleppo and The Cave, both directed by Feras Fayyad; Of Fath…
Shiori Itō's directorial debut, Black Box Diaries, has won acclaim around the world since its debut at last year's Sundance Film Festival, recently earning an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature. But there's one place it hasn't been seen: in the director's native Japan.
The film…
Porcelain War heads into the final days of Oscar voting with considerable momentum.
The documentary set in wartime Ukraine won the DGA Award last weekend, honoring the work of directors Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev. Bellomo is set to attend the Cinema for Peace Foundation's prestigious…
EXCLUSIVE: Two documentaries premiering at the Berlin Film Festival bring home the indescribable trauma of families of hostages seized by Hamas on October 7 – A Letter to David, directed by Tom Shoval, and Holding Liat, directed by Brandon Kramer.
The latter documentary, bowing in the…
EXCLUSIVE: Almost 40 years ago, Eyes on the Prize set the standard for the cinematic exploration of the Black experience in America and the long struggle for civil rights. At a time when ideals of equity and racial justice may have gone out of favor, HBO is returning with a new installment of the…
EXCLUSIVE: The spring lineup for the Emmy-winning documentary showcase Independent Lens is looking funky, by design.
WE WANT THE FUNK!, "a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music" directed by Stanley Nelson and co-directed and produced Nicole London, is set to debut April 8 on the…
The directors of the Oscar-nominated documentary No Other Land are sharply criticizing Pres. Trump's plan for the U.S. to take control of Gaza and dispatch its Palestinian inhabitants to other Arab countries.
In an interview with Deadline, Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham said Trump's idea…
EXCLUSIVE: The only documentary in competition at this year's Berlin Film Festival is Timestamp, a poignant examination of the day to day lives of Ukrainian schoolchildren, coming of age at a time of war.
Kateryna Gornostai directed the nonfiction feature, the first Ukrainian-directed film to…
The Oscar-nominated short documentary Incident begins with closed-circuit video shot from a utility pole along a Chicago street. The camera shows storefronts on one side of the road, and closer to the camera, two sets of train tracks. The scene looks placid, but within moments the camera will capture…
EXCLUSIVE:Cheech and Chong's Last Movie, a documentary about the hippie stoner comedy duo, will be lighting up theaters this spring.
Distribution company Keep Smokin' will release the film directed by David Bushell nationwide on April 25, with special engagements on April 20. It features the…