If you've been looking for a really great (that is, tax deductible) excuse to spend a week in Waikiki, now you have one. This October the Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) turns 25. Travel & Leisure Magazine calls HIFF "one of the ten best film festivals in the world," and film critic Roger Ebert raves about the festival's "enormous" turnout of film fanatics. If you're not already dusting off your Hawaiian shirt, here's five more reasons to help HIFF celebrate its silver anniversary: 1) Hawaii's Happening Doc Scene. Hawaiians are an opinionated people, according to HIFF's
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Documentary filmmakers who use archival materials fall into two basic categories: those who are savvy about rights clearance issues and those who aren't. Documentarians who are not savvy about clearances tend to fall into various subcategories. For example: First-time documentary filmmakers, and those who are experienced with making documentaries but have never before worked with archival footage Those who view documentaries essentially as nonprofit educational products, and who therefore categorize everything archival in their films as "Fair Use"—because they don't really know what that term
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The 18th edition of the Los Angeles-based AFI Fest, which ran last November in conjunction with its new partner, American Film Market, offered viewers an eclectic mix of engaging films from around the world. Culling from over 850 submissions for the documentary category alone, the programmers showcased fresh and varied talent. The prevailing theme among documentaries was that of freedom: political freedom, freedom of religion, freedom of artistic expression, freedom from incarceration, freedom from oppressive regimes, freedom from pharmaceutical treatment, freedom from economic duress. Not
More and more women now run major television outlets for documentary film. Here, we profile the female power-brokers at Discovery Channel, Discovery Times, HBO, Independent Film Channel (IFC), MTV and Sundance Channel. Given that these six executives are responsible for buying or commissioning hundreds of hours of programming a year, it can be argued that the documentary industry is, at this moment, a woman's world. Nancy Abraham—Vice President, Documentary Programming, HBO Nancy Abraham has spent almost her entire career at HBO, absent a few years for graduate school and a stint in Budapest
Tonight at the 85th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, CA, feature documentary Searching for Sugar Man and short doc Inocente took home statues in their respective categories. Searching for Sugar Man, the film that won Best Feature at the IDA Documentary Awards in 2012, details the efforts of two Cape Town fans, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom who seek to find out if the rumored death of American musician Rodriguez was true. The film, directed by Malik Bendjelloul, also won the Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award for best international documentary at the
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Not even the dismal exchange rate, drizzle or occasional hail could dampen enthusiasm of US visitors last November to the Independent Documentary Festival at Amsterdam (IDFA), the annual cornucopia of worldwide documentary film viewing, business and discussion. IDFA continues to hold pride of place among docfests for volume and range of documentary, and for aggregating power-brokers. For the 2004 edition, more than 2,000 people could sample from hundreds of films and participate in dozens of discussions. More than 90 visitors were film festival programmers, and commissioning editors from
Documentary.org asked Matthew O'Neill and Jon Alpert about their Oscar-nominated short film 'Redemption'
It was announced today that New York City's case against the Central Park Five filmmakers Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns has been blocked by a federal judge. Back in October, 2012, the filmmakers received a subpoena from the City of New York for the outtakes and extra footage from the documentary. Although the lawyers for the city insisted on seeing all of the footage before the film was released to the public, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis said the city's concerns did not override the "precious rights of freedom of speech and the press." The court wrote that: Florentine’s