Online sales have ended, but the event is NOT SOLD OUT. Tickets and Passes will be sold ON SITE at the Writers Guild Theater beginning at 8:30 AM. IDA's all-day, back-to-back screenings of this year's Oscar® nominated documentary films. See the films! Meet the filmmakers! Saturday, February 26, 2011 Writers Guild of America Theater 135 S. Doheny Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90211 For full schedule and more event info, visit the DocuDay LA event page.
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Scholars and practitioners poked, prodded, dissected and analyzed issues relating to film and history--from recent boy bands to documentary classics--at the fourth Film & History Biennial Conference in Dallas, Texas, which ran from November 8 to 12. Hosted by Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies and sponsored by The Center for the Study of Film and History, the conference drew an international attendance of scholars, students, editors, filmmakers, writers and historians for five days of academic paper presentations, film screenings and question and answer
'Exit Through the Gift Shop,' nominated for Best Documentary Feature, screens February 26 at DocuDay LA and DocuDay NY.
From Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre's Maquilapolis. Courtesy of MadCat Women's International Film Festival Opening night of the MadCat Women's International Film Festival traditionally takes place at El Rio, a funky bohemian bar in San Francisco's Mission district. There's a modest sliding-scale entrance fee, $2.50 margaritas at the bar, and free barbecue in the jam-packed patio area, where a screen is set up to show the films. On this balmy, early fall evening, MadCat is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Founder and curator Ariella Ben-Dov opens the festivities, recalling that she began
Passes Still Available for DocuDay LA Seeing more than four films at DocuDay? Not sure which films you want to see? Play it safe with an ALL DAY Pass, just $45 for IDA members! To find out more or to purchase passes, visit the event page. DocuDay is IDA's all-day, back-to-back screenings of this year's Oscar® nominated documentary films set for this Saturday, February 26th, 2011.
In the fall of 1968, I saw David Holzman's Diary (Jim McBride, L.M. Kit Carson, Michael Wadleigh) at New York University Film School. McBride's team created a world that appeared to the viewer as a documentary, but was a total fiction. David Holzman's Diary is, in many respects, the staged documentary which started a movement that embraced a style of reality filmmaking and fiction filmmaking. With the handheld camera, the fictional documentary filmmaker becomes the central character--a sometimes tragic, sometimes comic hero taking us on a journey that is sometimes very personal. That screening
'Strangers No More,' nominated in the Documentary Short Subject category, screens at DocuDay LA and DocuDay NY.