'Welcome to Chechnya' Director on Doc's Impact: "It's Engendering a Real Wave of Empathy for LGBTQ Russians"

True stories provide fertile breeding ground for awards-season contenders, but few biographies are as rich and strange as that of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who spent 14 years in Guantanamo Bay on flimsy terrorism charges as the U.S. fought an often-directionless war on terror.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaBryan Fogel’s “The Dissident” was too hot to handle.The documentary about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist and political activist who was allegedly killed in 2018 on the orders of the Saudi Royal Family, was one of the hottest films at last year’s Sundance.

Rebuilding her marriage has been an uphill battle for Jana Kramer.

Jana Kramer is learning to trust her husband, Mike Caussin, again after the cheating scandal that rocked their marriage. 

No one can say filmmaker Bryan Fogel doesn’t enjoy a cinematic challenge.

Andrei Konchalovsky’s acclaimed historical drama Dear Comrades! is inspired by the true story of a state-sponsored massacre in the Russian city of Novocherkassk in the early 1960s.

Documentary filmmaker Bryan Fogel has become expert at telling complex stories of international intrigue.

Billy Ray has every intention of shamelessly plugging the actors who populated his Showtime series, The Comey Rule, at every opportunity that presents itself this awards season.

Even before “The Dissident” made its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, director Bryan Fogel had a sense that his explosive Jamal Khashoggi documentary was going to be a tough sell.

Joan Micklin Silver, the pioneering independent female director behind Hester Street and Crossing Delancey, among many other titles, who fought to bring Jewish stories to the silver screen, has died. She was 85.