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The son of pioneering undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau is planning a new documentary series about oceanic life aimed at promoting conservation.

The series, to be entitled "Ocean Alive", will consist of 12 documentary films and a feature. Cousteau hopes to film all of them in 3D.

"We will help the audience to discover the beauty of the waters off California ...

Qatar's annual film festival gave its top award to filmmaker Merzak Allouache's production of "Normal", a movie that follows disillusioned Algerian youth in the wake of the "Arab Spring" revolutions.

The award, which carries a bonus of $100,000 dollars, was announced at the third annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival awards ceremony Saturday, alongside seven other prizes, including ...

Vienna's annual film festival, the Viennale, kicked off Thursday evening, promising over 200 movies and documentaries and guest stars like director David Cronenberg and legend Harry Belafonte.

The two-week event opened its 49th edition with Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's film "Le Havre" and will close on November 2 with George Clooney's political drama "The Ides of March ...

Michael Moore, clad in customary baseball cap, a black T-shirt, baggy trousers and white sneakers, strolled into the neo-Gothic splendor of Georgetown University's Gaston Hall and began to preach.

"We as Americans have allowed a very small group of people to be highly skilled practitioners of one of the seven deadly sins," he told his youthful and multinational audience ...

Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore called Thursday for a total boycott of Georgia after the southern US state, defying global protests, executed convicted police killer Troy Davis.

On his website (www.michaelmoore.com), the director of "Fahrenheit 9/11," "Bowling for Columbine" and "Sicko" also demanded that his just-released memoirs "Here Comes Trouble" be pulled from Georgia bookshops.

"I encourage everyone ...

Private financing is leading a boom in documentaries -- as evidenced by the record number screened at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival, wrapping up on Sunday.

A growing number of filmmakers have also been drawn to the genre's low production costs (usually less than $500,000 to make a documentary) and freedom from studio oversight, organizers said.

"We've ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - They're not exactly squeezing Brad Pitt and George Clooney out onto the street, but documentaries are grabbing a larger share of the spotlight than usual at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.

In addition to festival opener "From the Sky Down" -- the U2 documentary by Davis Guggenheim -- documentary royalty such as Werner Herzog, Morgan Spurlock, Wim ...

A documentary on the Irish rock band U2's dizzying rise to superstardom rocked Canada's largest metropolis as it opened the Toronto film festival.

Fans cheered as Bono and U2 guitarist The Edge appeared for the gala opener of "From The Sky Down," directed by Davis Guggenheim.

It is the first time ever that a documentary kicks off the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A woman in a headscarf runs into the street to calm a crowd before violence erupts. "This is what a war zone looks like," a voiceover declares.

But the "war zone" in the new documentary movie "The Interrupters" isn't Iraq or Afghanistan. It is Chicago's South Side, where some neighborhoods are stricken with violence.

The ...

Toronto-born Omar Khadr, the youngest detainee ever held at the US "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has fired his Canadian lawyers, one of the attorneys said Friday.

Dennis Edney declined to provide any further details about his ex-client's decision, while Quebec filmmaker Patricio Henriquez, who directed an award-winning documentary film about Khadr, said the move ...