Mansha Daswani

A pair of documentaries about the recent Hamas attacks in Israel made headlines in Cannes.

Award-winning Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion is prepping a 45-minute special, One Day in October, about the Hamas attack on the music festival in Israel on October 7, with the film set to air on ZDF and ARTE within the next two weeks, filmmakers Duki Dror and Reinhardt Beetz tell World Screen Newsflash.

U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 has rolled out its first international channels, bringing the FAST services 4 Adventure and 4 Emergency to Tubi, Plex and Xumo Play.

Football Must Go On, chronicling the journey of Ukrainian soccer club Shakhtar Donetsk as they competed in the 2022-2023 UEFA Champions League season, is slated to premiere on Paramount+ in September.

Delivering this year's MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival, documentarian Louis Theroux weighed in on the importance of risk-taking and the "atmosphere of anxiety" in the media business.

ZED has acquired all the assets of doc producer Point du Jour—Les Films du Balibari, which includes a library of 900-plus hours.

Autentic’s Patrick Hörl, Blue Ant International’s Solange Attwood and Albatross World Sales’ Lisa Schelhas weighed in on the new opportunities the AVOD sector is presenting to factual content distributors at the FAST Festival.

Endeavor has made a minority investment in Velvet Hammer Media (VHM), the non-scripted production company co-founded by former HBO Max execs Jennifer O’Connell and Rebecca Quinn.

All3Media International has sealed a deal to take on the distribution rights to Searching for Satoshi: The Mysterious Disappearance of the Bitcoin Creator from Paul Kemp Productions.

From exploring the burgeoning FAST landscape to managing the complexities of financing increasingly ambitious premium docs, leading distributors weigh in on trends shaping the factual business today.