The first-ever Irish documentary film festival, dubbed Doclands, was launched with a flair, appropriately honoring one of the living legends of
Festivals
From its humble beginnings in 1992—just 10 Oscar-nominated films presented to local folk on a $20,000 budget—the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
When a film series is named after an anthropologist and staged in a museum, you expect certain things—like an air of earnestness and a near-constant
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) was really three events, all of extreme interest to documentary filmmakers. First there
The annual New York Film Festival, in business at Lincoln Center since 1963, customarily screens up to four documentaries. But the festival this year
When the central government of a nation state chooses to spend money to subsidize independent documentary screenings, it’s clear that its economy is
After a week of endless meetings, screenings, seminars, lunches, cocktails, dinners, late night drinks and non-stop schmoozing, the 11,000+ buyers and
Film school offers students a bundle of resources, including a learned faculty, access to a wide variety of movies, shared camaraderie with fellow
“Back in 1976, when I brought Harlan County to the first festival here, it was a very different place,” says Barbara Kopple, whose new feature
The year 2000 saw Toronto’s Hot Docs Film Festival truly come of age. The success of the screenings, coupled with an auspicious debut for the Toronto