The Paramount-Warner merger would bring the CNN and CBS archives under a single owner. For documentary filmmakers, the issue is not only preserving them, but being able to use them.
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YouTube and Variety are bringing Mark Vins and Ziwe to the Toronto International Film Festival’s new professional market, where the creator economy is beginning to speak the language of the industry openly.
Edgar Pêra brings to Locarno a film about the FP-25 that blends autobiography, archives, fiction and AI-generated imagery. The real experiment, however, concerns what we are still willing to call memory.
Automattic, the company led by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, produced Code for the People: The Human Story of the Open Web.
Ridley Scott is producing The Vesuvius Challenge, a documentary narrated by Guy Pearce about the project using X-rays and AI to read the Herculaneum scrolls.
With Synthetic Sincerity, Marc Isaacs uses a fake AI research project to strike at glossy documentary filmmaking: ordinary people disappear, and what remains are avatars and celebrities.
Dreams of Violets debuts at the 2026 Tribeca Festival: a live-action film generated with AI, 74-75 minutes long, with a reported budget of $2,000 and plenty of controversy.
Doug Liman is preparing Bitcoin, formerly known as Killing Satoshi: a real cast, AI-enhanced faces, and Bezos, Zuckerberg, Putin, Kim Jong Un and Eric Trump thrown into the crypto blender.
At Visions du Réel 2026, Heat by Jacqueline Zünd arrives: a sensory documentary set in the Persian Gulf, where extreme heat becomes climate, class, and a human alarm.
2026. UFOs, Aliens. There's something curious that happens periodically throughout human history: every now and then, we start looking at the sky with suspicion again.
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