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BuzzFeed is betting that its newsroom is the perfect place to launch new documentary projects. BuzzFeed Motion Pictures has hired former Cinetic Media head of sales Linzee Troubh for the newly-created position of Senior Manager of News Development, responsible for working with BuzzFeed News editors and reporters to develop documentary features and series based on the company’s original reporting.

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Troubh will also work with outside producers to package upcoming and published news stories. Prior to joining Cinetic in 2010, she worked at the Tribeca Film Festival. Troubh’s first day at BuzzFeed was Monday.

“This isn’t going to be for every story and isn’t going to be of interest to every reporter,” BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith wrote in a memo the company’s employees, “but it’s an exciting new direction for...

A big day of shooting on Never Sleep Again is under way, and Dread Central is continuing our coverage of the documentary's Twitter feed. Come on in to find out who else has been on the hot seat!

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy officially began lensing on August 22, 2009, in and around Los Angeles. Starring and narrated by Heather Langenkamp, star of the 1984 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street and two of its sequels (1986's Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and 1994's Wes Craven's New Nightmare), this thrilling 90-minute retrospective promises to be the definitive look at the making of the iconic horror series and the enduring legacy of its wise-cracking, razor-gloved villain: the indefatigable "bastard son of a hundred maniacs" known as Freddy Krueger.

Directed by Daniel Farrands and Andrew Kasch, this comprehensive look at the Nightmare films is written and produced by Thommy Hutson with Heather Langenkamp serving as executive-producer,...