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Camilla Calamandrei's feature documentary The Tiger Next Door premiered on Canadian television on February 3 on TVO (Television Ontario), as a one-hour special. Upcoming screenings  include the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana on February 13 and the Lake County Film Festival in Grayslake and North Chicago, Illinois on March 6 and 7. The 86-minute version of the film is currently available on DVD for addresses outside the USA. US sales begin March 25. www.thetigernextdoor.com

The Independent recently did a "10 to Watch" feature on inspirational filmmakers worth paying attention to. The feature includes Q&A's posted on Facebook and a feature story with background info on all 10 directors. Included on the list was IDA Member Robin Hessman, whose film My Perestroika recently premiered in the US Documentary Competiton at the Sundance Film Festival.. 

Ingelore, one of the 2009 DocuWeeks participants, had a special screening at the Broad Stage which included a post-screening Q&A with director Frank Stiefel and Ingelore Herz Honigstein. The film has screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival, Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival, South African Film Festival, ArcLight Cinema Hollywood and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Over the next few months Ingelore will appear at the Berlin Film Festival, Mendocino Film Festival, Irish International Film Festival and Doc Aviv Festival in Israel.

Kartemquin Films' new project Prisoner of Her Past will have its North American premiere at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival on February 14, with director Gordon Quinn attending. Audiences in Illinois will also a get a chance to see a special preview screening of the film on February 28 at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. The film is about an aging Holocaust survivor who believes everyone is trying to kill her--60 years after her tragic childhood. Her son travels the world to uncover his mother's secret past, along the way discovering a family he never knew he had and illuminating a little-known illness: late-onset Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. www.prisonerofherpast.com

Alexis Krasilovsky's feature documentary Women Behind the Camera won the "Best of Fest Award - Documentary Film" at the WIN (Women's Image Network) Awards Gala held at the American Film Institute on December 1, 2009.  This is the film's fourth "Best Documentary" award.  www.womenbehindthecamera.com