Deadline’s virtual fall screening series For the Love of Docs kicks off its sixth season tonight with Antidote , the documentary thriller about Christo Grosev, the investigative journalist pursued around the world by the Kremlin.

James Jones directed the Oscar-contending film that’s won awards at festivals from the Hague to Tribeca. We at Deadline see this series as something of an antidote for a documentary field ailed by shrinking distribution options – not to mention the Trump administration’s drive to defund PBS . None of the 10 films chosen for the series pays anything to participate. It’s free for the audience too — our way of giving back to the nonfiction cinema community.

“This series has just built so much momentum,” says independent documentary producer James Costa ,

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