Over the past decade, film festivals have grown into a year-round festival industry, one that seems to have spread to every medium-sized US and
Festivals
From the treasure of documentary riches at the Berlin Festival, celebrating its 52nd year this past February, six films merit special acknowledgement
If ever there was a film festival that reminds us of what it is to be human, it is the Cinéma du Réel festival of ethnographic and sociological films
As the plane descended, I could see New York, Paris and Monte Carlo framed in the same window. It was Las Vegas—dazzling lights, towering skyscraper
Over the past seven years, Slamdance Film Festival has evolved from scruffy upstart, taking on Sundance, the eminence grise of Park City, with a DIY
Building on the success of 2000, the Sundance Film Festival again proved its commitment to the documentary by offering an expanded 2001 version of
The 2001 Sundance Film Festival was homecoming, alumni weekend and orientation all rolled into one. The annual wintertime happening feted some of the
The first-ever Irish documentary film festival, dubbed Doclands, was launched with a flair, appropriately honoring one of the living legends of
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