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 […]
Press Play with Madeline Brand
Written by Amy Ta, produced by Brian Hardzinski For nearly three years now, Russia’s war in Ukraine has completely upended the existence of those who chose to stay. Porcelain War is a new documentary that vividly portrays the lives of civilians-turned-soldiers on and off the battlefield. It centers on Slava Leontyev, a Ukrainian artist-turned-Special Forces weapons instructor […]
77th Annual DGA Awards Winners – “Porcelain War Wins Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
How Ukrainian Artists Channeled Their Creativity Into Documenting War
By Steve Dollar Art mobilizes against bullets, bombs and tanks in “Porcelain War,” a documentary about how beauty not only persists amid the wreckage of warfare but serves as a necessary existential weapon of its own. The film, which won the U.S. grand jury prize for documentary at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, is competing for an […]
The Crazy Story on How the ‘Porcelain War’ Co-Directors Made a Doc 6,000 Miles Apart
By Brendan Bellomo From the start, Slava Leontyev and I, as co-directors of the documentary feature Porcelain War, realized that we had a problem. Actually, a few. Big ones. To begin with, there was this: Slava is a porcelain artist turned Special Forces soldier in Ukraine, I am a VFX supervisor in the U.S., and […]
