The Eighth Full Frame Documentary Festival broke its previous attendance records this year, and has become more than a fixture in the cultural life of Durham, North Carolina. It has become a positive sign in a city demoralized by crime. Nancy Buirski, the festival's executive director, says, "The new venue at American Tobacco [Campus]--Duke University's decision to become part of our family of sponsors--shows how we truly have found our home in the Durham and Triangle community." The theme this year was "Why War?" but ironically war took a back seat to other more personal themes in American
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Documentaries were front and center at the 48th San Francisco International Film Festival, which ran from April 21 to May 5, and included 35 documentary features, an award to BBC documentarian Adam Curtis, two films from French filmmaker and photojournalist Raymond Depardon and the latest from Rivers and Tides (2002) director Thomas Riedelsheimer. Curtis received the festival's Persistence of Vision Award, which honors lifetime achievement in documentaries and short films. The premise of his latest three-part BBC series, The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (2004), is
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In a letter to the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Debra Chasnoff and over 150 filmmakers ask for clarification on why an innocent filmmaker is repeatedly being detained and interrogated at the US border.
We are pulling this article from the archive to promote our upcoming Doc U: Shooting Overseas: Making Your Doc on Foreign Soil at the AFCI Locations Show at the L.A. Convention Center. On Friday, June 15, we are hosting a panel of doc filmmakers who have traveled the globe and film commissioners whose job it is to make filming in their countries as straightforward as possible. Register for the AFCI Locations Show and RSVP for this free Doc U today! I've spent a third of my professional life in the developing world. The toughest experiences have been filming a documentary in Cameroon, West
When we think of documentary filmmakers, we think of work that has a pattern: conceive, research, document, edit, distribute. Of course, that's a generalization, but if I had my cell phone/video camera pointed at a protest in Central Park, and transmitted what I had shot to a website, you wouldn't call that a documentary. But the lines are blurry, as technology makes real-time storytelling part of the future of the nonfiction world we live in. A number of institutions are breaking extraordinary ground in real-time storytelling and the evolution of citizen media. Take a look at NowPublic.com
'Chely Wright: Wish Me Away' opens June 1 through First Run Features.
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After a major victory was won at PBS, Doc U panelists discuss what's next for public broadcasting.