Tonight at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, the International Documentary Association announced plans for the Documentary Film Conference 2014. Co-presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the conference will take place October 2 through 4 in Los Angeles. Under this inaugural year’s banner "Getting Real", the Documentary Film Conference 2014 is a 3-day national conference that will serve as a major platform for critical discourse on the most pressing issues affecting the documentary film community. With major focus centered on the areas of art, impact, and
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And away we go! The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced the Academy Award® nominees for Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short Subject this morning. The Academy Awards will be presented Sunday, March 2. Here's the lineup: Best Documentary Feature The Act of Killing—Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen LEARN MORE: The Art of 'Killing': How Much Truth Comes from the Lie that Tells the Truth? Cutie and the Boxer —Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher LEARN MORE: Meet the IDA Awards Honorees: Zachary Heinzerling Dirty Wars —Richard Rowley and Jeremy
IDA fiscal sponsor projects and Pare Lorentz Doc Fund recipients among fundees.
Editor's Note: As the doc world braces for the annual pilgrimage to Park City, we at documentary.org will be spotlighting some of the films that will be premiering at Sundance and Slamdance. Filmmaker Michael Galinsky, a longtime contributor to Documentary magazine, whose film Who Took Johnny will be screening at Slamdance, has interviewed a plethora of the Park City Class of 2014, and we'll be posting these interviews over the next ten days. Here's an interview with Theo Love and Trenton Waterson , whose Little Hope Was Arson premieres January 17 at Slamdance. When Theo Love and Trenton
Grey Gardens A Film by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, Susan Froemke, 1976, 94 minutes Blu-Ray Edition Published by The Criterion Collection 2013 On September 21, 1975, in an upstairs hallway, in a decaying mansion in the exclusive Village of East Hampton, New York, David and Al Maysles, "Little Edie" and "Big Edie" Beale along with a few others, watched a preview screening of Grey Gardens, a film that had been shot over six weeks in the fall of 1973 by the Maysles brothers, along with Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer. It had taken Hovde, Meyer and Susan Froemke over two
'Kidnapped for Christ' premieres July 10 on Showtime.
Editor's Note: As the doc world braces for the annual pilgrimage to Park City, we at documentary.org will be spotlighting some of the films that will be premiering at Sundance and Slamdance. Filmmaker Michael Galinsky, a longtime contributor to Documentary magazine, whose film Who Took Johnny will be screening at Slamdance, has interviewed a plethora of the Park City Class of 2014, and we'll be posting these interviews over the next ten days. Here 's an interview with Jesse Moss, whose The Overnighters , premieres January 17 at the Sundance Film Festival. Filmmaker Jesse Moss has a long
A review of the book 'Killer Images,' co-edited by Joshua Oppenheimer.
The Five Obstructions turns the concept of documentary on its ear, then spins it around. Though billed as a documentary, The Five Obstructions is a film whose meaning is in subtext rather than in what is visible. The premise is the humiliation by a former student, Danish director Lars von Trier, of his esteemed teacher, documentary filmmaker Jǿrgen Leth, by having his mentor remake his classic short, The Perfect Human (1967)—five ways from hell, according to von Trier's rules. This highbrow challenge, gamely accepted by Leth, is a pretext to the film's greater themes—a meeting between two
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is arguably the Cannes of documentary film festivals. It has always been a very polished organization, largely because its founder and director, Nancy Buirski, has been able to harness the clout she wielded from her days as a photo editor with The New York Times and bring it with her to Durham, North Carolina. Beginning as DoubleTake in 1998, the festival changed its name to Full Frame three years ago. How has the festival succeeded? Buirski credits the high intellectual base in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area for its interest in nonfiction filmmaking