‘Poisoned’ documentary about US food industry leaves viewers vowing to go vegan

BreAnna Bell A new sound rocked the Ace Theatre in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday night as musical trio Chris Moten, Devon “Stixx” Taylor, and Cassius Jay unveiled Andscape’s “Trap Jazz” documentary to the auditorium with a visionary performance including a surprise visit from Chrisette Michele. Directed by Sade Clacken Joseph, the Hulu documentary follows the three musicians on their five-year journey to develop and produce their own sound — a cultural meld that blends two major elements of their backgrounds as Atlanta natives: Trap and Jazz music. “I feel like what we’re doing, we’re able to bridge all the generations, from the young people, to the older, to the middle — it doesn’t matter.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor First Hand Films has taken international sales rights to German director Julia Fuhr Mann’s documentary “Life Is Not a Competition But I Am Winning?,” which will premiere in Critics’ Week at the Venice Film Festival. Variety is debuting its trailer exclusively.

Few 20th century American writers had the wide-ranging influence of Tom Wolfe. Don’t believe that? Well, here comes a new doc about the writer and New Journalism pioneer that proves that point, and it hits NYC/LA theaters next month before opening wide later this year.

Rojek, writer-director Zaynê Akyol’s documentary that attempts to trace the beginning, rise and fall of the Islamic State through the personal stories of its members and their wives incarcerated in prison camps, was selected Thursday by Canada to represent the country in the 2024 Oscar Best International Feature Film race.

Paris Fury, the wife of professional boxer Tyson Fury, has announced she is releasing a new book following the success of their recent Netflix series. The couple let the cameras into their home for the very first time as they signed up for their own docuseries, At Home With The Furys.

Swifties are getting a taste of Taylor Swift’s first re-released track off her 2017 album, Reputation.

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Barbara Bain, star of the British sci-fi series Space: 1999, is preparing to board an upcoming documentary about the Eagle, the famed spacecraft at the heart of the show that ran from 1975-1977.

Scientist Yewande Biala is one of the smartest people to have been on Love Island. With a first-class honours degree in biotechnology and a masters in pharmaceutical quality assurance, she walked into the villa in 2019 looking to discover the perfect formula for love. It didn’t work out, but now the 28-year-old is applying all that brain power to a documentary exploring the secrets of the female orgasm.

After glamour model Katie Price sensationally said last week that she’d rather be "put in prison" than go to court next month, an insider source revealed that the mum-of-five believes a stint behind bars will relaunch her career. "Katie’s adamant that a stint in prison will relaunch her career," they exclusively told OK! this week. "She believes it’ll be her route to book deals, behind bars-style documentaries, television interviews." Speaking on Michelle Visage’s Rule Breaker podcast last week, Katie, 45, described a prison sentence as a "win-win" in regards to the future rewards she sees herself reaping.

Icarus Films has taken North American rights to Youth (Spring), the newest feature from Venice prizer winner Wang Bing, which earlier this year became one of the first documentaries admitted to Cannes’ main competition in decades. A release date has not yet been disclosed.

The highly anticipated Heart of Invictus documentary from Prince Harry will be dropping soon on screens - but not after one last dramatic shock.

EXCLUSIVE: UK drama schools are to be put in the spotlight in a documentary feature film that promises to pull the curtain back on their “toxic culture.”

EastEnders' character Alfie Moon is set to be diagnosed with prostate cancer in upcoming scenes which are set to leave viewers in tears.

Last night, documentary Kyle Falconer: Love and Chaos aired on BBC Scotland. The View frontman and fiancee Laura Wylde opened up about their parenthood journey and the creation of their new play 'No Love Songs'.

This Morning hosts Josie Gibson and Rochelle Humes looked like they were struggling to remain professional as they interviewed a woman who claimed to eat 1,000 sheets of toilet paper a day.They were joined on the show - which is tipped for a huge makeover - by Kinah Moore, a woman originally from Baltimore in the United States, who suffers from a condition known as Pica. Pica is an eating disorder in which sufferers compulsively eat non-edible substances.

A new Netflix documentary about the life and career of cycling legend Mark Cavendish has left viewers in tears.

Speaking exclusive about boyfriend Zachariah Noble's fling with co-star Kady McDermott for the first time since leaving Love Island, Molly Marsh tells OK! she wants their 'situationship' left in the past. "We expected this to come up because she’s been part of our journey and where we are now is because of everything we’ve gone through," Molly tells us during our at-home shoot. "But I think it’d be a bit of an awkward friendship," the blonde beauty savagely adds.

The Bee Gees, The Go-Go’s, David Bowie, the Grateful Dead, Louis Armstrong, the Velvet Underground, and Tina Turner have something more in common than just musical greatness. They’ll all been the subject of recent documentaries, part of an explosion in popularity of the nonfiction genre.

EXCLUSIVE: Haley Elizabeth Anderson has wrapped production on Jazzy Jumpers, a documentary she was tapped to direct for Indigenous Media, P&G Studios and A Seed & Wings Productions.

Addie Morfoot Contributor With documentary distribution in a state of disruption, most independent nonfiction filmmakers have been left on their own to find new and creative solutions to ensure that their films reach audiences. Ian Cheney is the latest director to turn to a bespoke distribution method for his docu “The Arc of Oblivion.” Cheney wrote, edited, and directed the film, which explores people’s impulse toward preservation and how it relates to the natural world, memory and legacy.