“The Perfect Neighbor,” a documentary film about the murder of Ajike (A.J.) Owens, has been nominated for an Oscar. Executive producer Takema Robinson spoke to the Chronicle about the film, the fund ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The Perfect Neighbor" (Credit: Netflix) The year 2025 did not disappoint in the documentaries category, and that means we have to ...

[Editor's note: This interview was originally published during the 2025 New York Film Festival.] We’ve seen police cam footage on many true crime shows. But we haven’t seen a movie like “The Perfect ...

The 90-minute film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Directing award. It was also nominated for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards. When it was originally released, it ...

A feud between Ocala, Florida, neighbors escalated for more than two years, eventually reaching a deadly climax. An Oscar-nominated documentary feature revisits the tragic confrontation in a unique ...

The nominees for the 2025 Independent Spirit Awards were announced on Wednesday (December 3), with several festival favorites among the non-fiction nominees. Lastly, the nominees for the 31st annual ...

Geeta Gandbhir is the daughter of an immigrant from India. She made a name for herself when she met Spike Lee at Harvard University where she was a student, and Lee was a professor. She won the Emmy ...

Editor Viridiana Lieberman on cutting The Perfect Neighbor, the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary assembled almost entirely from police bodycam footage, using Adobe Premiere Pro. The Perfect ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed the shortlists in 12 categories for the 2026 Oscars, including those for best documentary feature and short.

The way we see it, there’s a yin and yang to documentaries. They’ve always had the potential to be deadly serious — now maybe more than ever, as a world awash in chaos spotlights such topics as the ...

The Perfect Neighbor is a 2025 documentary film told through real police bodycam footage and 911 calls. It is about a seemingly minor dispute in a Florida neighborhood that escalated into deadly ...