Picturehouse & WG Pictures Set Spring Release For Asa Butterfield Movie ‘Our Hero, Balthazar’
By Anthony D’Alessandro EXCLUSIVE: Picturehouse and WG Pictures have set a March 27 release in NYC and an April 3 L.A. debut for the Tribeca Film Festival title, Our Hero, Balthazar. The dramedy stars Jaeden Martell as a wealthy New York City teenager who, eager to impress his activist crush, follows an online connection to Texas where he […]
“The King Of Color” Wins Best Documentary At Advanced Imaging Society Awards
By Jazz Tangcay “Sinners,” “Zootopia 2” and “KPop Demon Hunters” took top honors at the Advanced Imaging Society Awards. The Lumiere Awards recognized outstanding creative and technical achievements during its 16th annual celebration. The awards honor the artists, engineers and innovators whose work continues to push the boundaries of storytelling and cinematic technology. “These Lumiere winners […]
Bob Berney on Five Wild Decades at Sundance, and Chasing Movies No One Else Wanted Like ‘Memento’ and ‘Donnie Darko’
By Anne Thompson January 22, 2026 2:00 pm Bob Berney has been screening films at Sundance in Park City since the early 1980s — whether to exhibit them, buy them for distribution companies, or launch their release. At Sundance 2024, Berney, who currently runs indie distributor Picturehouse with his wife Jeanne, caught Ukraine documentary “Porcelain War,” and months later raised financing for a […]
Producers Guild Reveals PGA Awards Documentary Noms & Innovation Award Finalists
By Erik Pedersen Awards season rolls on today with the Producers Guild of America revealing the documentary nominees for its 37th annual awards in February and finalists for its 2026 Innovation Award. Contending for the statuette are HBO Documentary Films’ My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay and The Alabama Solution, Netflix’s The Perfect Neighbor and Cover-Up, National Geographic’s The Tale of Silyan and Ocean with David […]
IDA Documentary Award Winners Led by ‘The Tale of Silyan’ and ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics’
By Anne Thompson The 41st annual IDA Documentary Awards brunch held on December 6 at the Los Angeles Athletic Club assembled the nonfiction community to celebrate the best television and film documentaries of 2025. Dozens of global IDA jurors voted on more than 550 entries in all categories from 85 countries. The winner of Best Feature Documentary, “The […]
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Tamara Kotevska on “The Tale of Silyan”
Marya E. Gates A few years ago, the Macedonian film “Honeyland” made history as the first documentary to be nominated in both the Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary Feature categories at the 92nd Academy Awards. This year, its co-director Tamara Kotevska is back with the equally poetic, searingly political documentary “The Tale of […]
In ‘The Tale of Silyan,’ the Storks Are Watching
To describe a documentary as “magical realism” could seem paradoxical. How could nonfiction also be mythological? But when the raw materials of reality and something more otherworldly are woven together well, it looks a lot like Tamara Kotevska’s “The Tale of Silyan” (in theaters), the lyrical, extraordinary tale of a North Macedonian farmer and his companion, […]
Picturehouse To Distribute NatGeo’s THE TALE OF SILYAN
(WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oct. 30, 2025) Today, National Geographic Documentary Films announced the award-winning documentary THE TALE OF SILYAN will make its theatrical debut this fall, opening in select U.S. theaters on Nov. 28 and in U.K. cinemas on Dec. 12. Distributed by Picturehouse in North America and Dogwoof internationally, the official trailer launched today, […]
Picturehouse Acquires Patrick Creadon Documentary ‘The King Of Color’ Ahead Of AFI Fest
Picturehouse Acquires Patrick Creadon Documentary ‘The King Of Color’ Ahead Of AFI Fest By Anthony D’Alessandro EXCLUSIVE: Picturehouse has taken all North American distribution rights to Patrick Creadon‘s new documentary The King of Color, about Lawrence Herbert, the creator of the Pantone Matching System. The movie is playing AFI Fest on Friday, with a limited theatrical release set for December 12. Herbert, a […]
Picturehouse To Release “Re-Election” In Theaters October 10 And Debuts Trailer Online
New York, NY — September 5, 2025 — Picturehouse will release “Re-Election,” a nostalgic comedy from director-writer-producer Adam Saunders (“Dotty & Soul”) beginning October 10th at New York’s Regal Union Square, followed by openings on October 17th in Dallas at the Angelika Film Center and in Atlanta at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse. Saunders also stars […]