'October Country,' 'Burma VJ' also multiple winners.
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Independent Feature Project's annual Independent Film Week celebrated its 2007 edition September 16-19 in New York City, combining its 29th Annual IFP Market, the 3rd Annual Filmmaker Conference and the 15th anniversary of IFP's FILMMAKER magazine, marking a weeklong excursion into the heart of the independent filmmaking and distribution process. IFP has nurtured over 7,000 projects, including the hit documentary Mad Hot Ballroom and the Oscar-winning Born Into Brothels as well as such landmark fiction films as Maria Full of Grace, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Clerks, The Brothers McMullen
Filmmaker Greg MacGillivray reflects on the environmental doc genre.
On education: Academia vs. The School of Hard Knocks
In an article about documentary training programs that appeared in the September-October 2004 issue of Documentary, I wrote, "Ten feature-length documentaries released theatrically since 1991 have grossed over $15 million globally, Daily Variety reported on June 25, 2004. This does not include television/cable, home video/DVD sales of these films, and excludes music/performance works and IMAX films. Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, which grossed over $21 million in its first weekend, might be the first non-IMAX doc to gross over $100 million--and actually help defeat a sitting president up for
'Off and Running' is out on DVD August 17 and airs September 7 on PBS' 'POV.'
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