The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) was really three events, all of extreme interest to documentary filmmakers. First there
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After a week of endless meetings, screenings, seminars, lunches, cocktails, dinners, late night drinks and non-stop schmoozing, the 11,000+ buyers and
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“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
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The eleventh annual Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, in its sixth collaboration with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, took
In its third year, docfest, New York's annual international documentary festival, has truly come into its own. A whirligig of screenings, Q&A sessions