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Jerome Foundation Accepting New York City Film and Video Program Applications The Saint Paul-based Jerome Foundation is now accepting applications for its New York City Film and Video Program on an ongoing basis. In addition, the program no longer limits applicants' budgets to $200,000 or less. Budgets of any size are allowed and will be given the same consideration. Applicants with small budgets are welcome and encouraged to apply. The film and video grant program is open to individual film and video artists who reside within the five boroughs of New York City and who work in the genres of
IDA announces screening dates for 15th Annual DocuWeeks™
From Jennifer Baichwal's Manufactured Landscape, which won the Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival Mirroring the strong gusts and chilly rain that greeted audiences at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival (TIFF), the winds of change blowing through the nonfiction programming were equally robust (and decidedly warmer). The festival's Real to Reel programmer Sean Farnel moved on to Hot Docs and was succeeded by author/filmmaker/teacher/programmer Thom Powers, who introduced a slew of new initiatives, large and small, designed to shine the
Dispatch from Toronto's Hot Docs Fest.
The Red Chapel shown with The Frustrated Fascist Auteurism of Kim Jong-il. A trio of Danes go to North Korea as the theater group Red Chapel, ostensibly as regime sympathizers participating in a variety show in Pyongyang, but actually to collect footage of the regime from the inside.
May 16 Join Doug Block and Marjan Safinia to discuss the personal documentary process
Ten years since it was founded to revitalize the Lower Manhattan area after 9/11, the Tribeca Film Festival expanded into Midtown-and broadened its programming accordingly. This year's lineup, with films from 32 countries, featured 45 world premieres, 91 features and more than 40 documentaries works. The project of seeing half of the documentaries was an exhausting feat unto itself. My trial began in earnest on the second day of the festival, while I was subsisting on Cliff Bars waiting for a documentary about the greatest sushi on earth. Jiro Dreams of Sushi, a strong debut from director
The Buenos Aires Lab in held in conjunction with the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Film.
Big personalities and big issues dominated the documentaries at this year's San Francisco International Film Festival. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World, the story of two naïve and idealistic young Texans who fall under the spell of a charismatic FBI informant and are prosecuted for domestic terrorism during the 2008 Republican National Convention, earned two Golden Gate Awards, for Documentary Feature and for Bay Area Documentary. The film is as gripping as any fictional drama, with two thoughtful and articulate protagonists. The drama in Yoav Potash's