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Doc News Shorts: August 21, 2009

By IDA Editorial Staff


In one of the final documents of Michael Jackson's life will be made available to fans. Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment have unveiled details about the upcoming Michael Jackson film, This Is It. The movie will be released for a limited, two-week engagement worldwide on Wednesday, Oct. 28. Tickets go on sale in most cities beginning on Sunday, Sept. 27. (via The Wrap)

How many conspiracy theories can Oliver Stone fit into a ten-part doc? Find out when his Secret History of America comes to Showtime in 2010. He's working on it now. (via THR)

Do you dig the TV show Mad Men? See the real deal behind some of the most influential advertising visionaries of our time and their campaigns with Doug Pray's doc Art & Copy, opening today. Brush up with this interview on indieWIRE with Pray and our impressions of the film at Sundance.

The 34th Toronto International Film Festival had added five new documentaries to its existing program, which runs September 10-19, 2009. The festival has set a newly formed Doc Conference, a full day of panels “devoted to the specific challenges and opportunities for documentary financing, distribution and ethics”; and the returning Doc Roundtables, which “create a rare chance for filmmakers to meet with industry leaders for an informal networking session.” (via indieWIRE)

Did you hear the one about the mushrooms documentary released on a USB flash drive shaped like a mushroom? Now you just did. (It's Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann's new film, Know Your Mushrooms, by the way.) (via indieWIRE)

Oh, and here's the latest trailer for Michael Moore's upcoming film Capitalism: A Love Story (via www.michaelmoore.com).