The opening night gala for this year's Human Rights Watch International Film Festival looked more like a Hollywood premiere than any prior festival
Festivals

The Krakow 35th International Short Film Festival ran from May 29 to June 2, 1998; in the same theatre, at the same time, ran the 31st National Short

When I first saw Ellen Bruno's film, Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy, at the National Educational Media Network's 1994 screenings (it was called the

The aftermath of the American Civil War was the backdrop for a mythic American movie character, Scarlett O'Hara, who found herself adrift amidst

Even though San Francisco makes no claim to hosting a documentary festival, I managed to take in about 30 of them during the recent two-week San

There's just no getting around it... Austin, Texas, is a hip place to be. And when South By Southwest takes the stage as the cultural event of choice

When the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival closed its 1997 edition with the documentary Off the Menu: Last Night At Chasen's, doc fans went home

Out of 170 features and shorts at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, 44 were documentaries, including 1 in Premiere, 2 in Spectrum, 4 in World Cinema

It's nice to see a film festival get back to its origins. In recent years, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival has grown from

The second Houston Pan-Cultural Film Festival was held February 8-15. It's a young festival, with kinks here and there, but the programming makes up