Matthew Carey joined Deadline fulltime in 2020, after a long association as a freelancer, to specialize in coverage of the nonfiction film landscape. Matthew is a writer and producer whose work has appeared on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español. He has written extensively about documentary film for CNN and CNN.com, Documentary magazine, NBCNews.com and TheWrap.
EXCLUSIVE: Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Anne Lundberg have seen this day coming. For a long time.
Their 2108 Netflix documentary Reversing Roe examined how right-wing activists, politicians and jurists were steadily chipping away at abortion rights across the country, with the goal of eventually overturning Roe v. Wade…
EXCLUSIVE: Before Anthony Bourdain and Gordon Ramsey there was Charlie Trotter, the O.G. of bad boy chefs.
The late culinary master, who earned Michelin stars at his restaurants in Chicago and Las Vegas, is the subject of Rebecca Halpern's debut documentary Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter. Gree…
To this day, filmmaker Rory Kennedy won't fly on a Boeing 737 Max aircraft.
"Based on what I know," she tells Deadline, "I would not get on the 737 Max and I would not let my family get on a 737 Max."
Her point of view is significant because Kennedy has learned a great deal about the aircraft in the course of making…
Scott Sternberg Productions today announced the launch of a new documentary division and the acquisition of Strong Island Films.
The first project under SSP's new division, Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil: My Story, will premiere this Sunday on REELZ. Sternberg directed the documentary in which the lead singer of the…
EXCLUSIVE: The murder of a British journalist and his Indigenous guide earlier this month in Brazil's Amazon underscores the extreme peril involved in trying to protect the rainforest.
The U.S. State Department has condemned the killings of Dom Phillips and his guide Bruno Pereira, saying the men "were murdered for…
EXCLUSIVE:MINK!, filmmaker Ben Proudfoot's follow up to his Oscar-winning documentary short The Queen of Basketball, will launch this week, a project that teams him with tennis star Naomi Osaka and her newly-announced production company.
MINK! tells the story of Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Hawaii Democrat who became the…
The HBO Max drama The Fallout depicts a scenario that has become all too real: a shooting at a school that leaves young people dead or injured. The unthinkable tragedy in Uvalde, Texas is the latest horrific example of a problem that has become all-too endemic in the United States. Actress Jenna Ortega stars in the…
For anyone who has seen the documentary Amazing Grace, it's hard to imagine a film to rival the one about the making of Aretha Franklin's gospel album. But the new film Stay Prayed Up contains equally ecstatic moments of a gospel singer in performance, in this case a not widely known but deeply gifted woman referred…
EXCLUSIVE: Voter suppression in this country is not a new phenomenon. In fact, it goes all the way back to Reconstruction following the Civil War, the moment when African Americans ostensibly first gained access to the ballot box.
The passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 was meant to correct systemic and…
Jeannette Feliciano is a member of a growing but unenviable club in America: survivors of mass shootings. With every passing week the club expands. Customers of Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York; children in Uvalde, Texas. More than 250 mass shootings have shattered lives in the U.S. this year so far…
On a recent Sunday morning, lines to get into Spago Beverly Hills ran around the block, from Canon Drive onto Clifton Way. Crowds at a Wolfgang Puck restaurant aren't unusual – in fact, they're commonplace – but this was an unusual occasion: an opportunity to hear from the chef about the Emmy-contending documentary Wol…
Bill Cosby has dismissed W. Kamau Bell, director of the Showtime documentary series We Need to Talk About Cosby, as a "PR hack." But The Cosby Show star and accused serial rapist appears to be in a small minority. No less an institution than the New York Times has declared Bell's series "a model of how to engage…