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Tomris Laffly With his breathless, soul-piercing “The First Wave,” director Matthew Heineman makes a tough cinematic proposition.

HamptonsFilm, the presenting organization of the Hamptons International Film Festival, said the festival’s 29th edition will return to in-person events and screenings in October.

EXCLUSIVE:  Baby Driver and Hobbs & Shaw actress Eiza González and Oscar nominated, Emmy winning director Matthew Heineman and Linden Entertainment have partnered with the Estate of iconic Mexican film star, Maria Felix, to bring her story to life. The team are currently looking for a Latin American writer to adapt Felix’s life for the screen.

If you don’t know the work of Academy Award®-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman (“Cartel Land,” “City Of Ghosts“), you really outta change that. A cameraman and cinematographer on top of being a documentarian, Heineman’s work is always super cinematic, super intimate, and seems even to blur the lines of fact and fiction; he gets into such personal spaces, it seems impossible that moments aren’t staged, but they aren’t.

National Geographic Documentary Films on Monday announced its acquisition of Oscar-nominated director Matthew Heineman’s documentary The First Wave, a ground-level view inside a New York hospital as the city battled the initial explosion of Covid-19.

NEW YORK -- For a man who first appeared on television when he was 2, showing Bob Hope how he could already swat golf balls, the public actually knows little about Tiger Woods.Getting behind carefully-constructed walls was the challenge faced by filmmakers Matthew Hamachek and Matthew Heineman, whose two-part HBO documentary “Tiger” starts Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern.

On April 14, 2019, a wicked Chicago ice storm swept over the McCormick Convention Center greeting Jedis with their lightsabers, princesses in their cinnamon bun wigs, and Sith Lords, some with what sounded like asthma, at the “Star Wars” celebration. About 860 miles separate Chicago from Augusta, Georgia; nevertheless, two marquee events stood still.

Before J. Balvin became a record-breaking chart-topper, he was José Álvaro Osorio Balvín, just another boy in Medellín, Colombia, with big dreams and an even bigger drive to make them come true.

HBO documentary series has provoked a backlash in the doc community due to a lack of above-the-line diversity on the project.The “Tiger” series is being co-helmed by Oscar-nominated “City Of Ghosts” and “A Private War” filmmaker Matthew Heineman and the Emmy-nominated Matthew Hamachek.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe announcement this week that golfing icon Tiger Woods would be the subject of a two-part HBO documentary series has provoked a backlash in the doc community due to a lack of above-the-line diversity on the project.The Tiger series is being co-helmed by Oscar-nominated City Of Ghosts and A Private War filmmaker Matthew Heineman and the Emmy-nominated Matthew Hamachek. The pair previously collaborated on Cartel Land.

Tiger Woods is the latest sports superstar to be the subject of an upcoming television documentary.

An early scene in the first season of The Trade, director Matthew Heineman's docuseries about cross-border crime and its consequences, sums up the voyeuristic appeal — and seediness — of its immersive approach. A young addict named Brittany buys heroin over the phone while telling the documentary crew in her motel room mid-tears that it's been a month since she's seen her children.

By Peter White