Utopia has acquired Participant’s feature documentary “Unseen Skies,” which the U.S. distributor will release on Sept. 13. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Yaara Bou Melhem, “Unseen Skies” explores ...

Oscar may come calling for Beyond Utopia (now streaming on Hulu), director Madeleine Gavin’s documentary about North Koreans attempting to escape the rampant oppression of a totalitarian regime that ...

Madeleine Gavin's film tells deeply personal stories about people attempting to defect from North Korea and a heroic pastor from South Korea making the dangerous escape possible. By Daniel Fienberg ...

Sundance: Madeleine Gavin's documentary is often messy and unfocused, but thrilling footage of North Korean defectors fleeing the country covers a multitude of sins. Nobody who runs into Pastor ...

(RNS) — The film features rare footage of the rescue missions led by Pastor Seungeun Kim and his ministry, Caleb Mission. (RNS) — For Pastor Seungeun Kim, accompanying North Korean defectors as they ...

Documentaries about weighty subjects have fallen out of favor with mighty streamers but made a strong showing on the Oscar shortlist This year’s Oscar feature documentary shortlist is made up of a ...

Sundance initially refused to mention North Korea in the description of the movie, which contains an unprecedented look at an escape from the country. The location in question is North Korea, and the ...

North Korea is a place of fearsome fascination. It’s the most brutal regime on earth, led by a dynastic dictator, Kim Jong-un, who has proved to be even more ruthless and obsessed with nuclear weapons ...

The Producers Guild announced its first batch of nominees for the 35th Annual PGA Awards. By Tyler Coates Awards Editor The Producers Guild of America has announced its 2024 Documentary Motion Picture ...

EXCLUSIVE: Celtic Utopia (Útóipe Cheilteach), the documentary feature on Irish folk music set to debut this year at Locarno, has been picked up by Croatian sales outfit Split Screen. Split Screen will ...

Independent and documentary film distributor Utopia has acquired the North American theatrical rights to “Are We Good?,” the Marc Maron biographical documentary that premiered at SXSW earlier this ...