CIFF's Ben Fowlie, Caroline von Kuhn and Sean Flynn headed to Park City last month for the Sundance Film Festival. You can check out Sean Flynn's coverage for indieWIRE of Sundance's New Frontiers program below as he asks us: Are Interactive Films Transforming Modern Storytelling? [Editor's note: This article ran in indieWIRE on January 28, [...]
Last week the doc community gathered in NYC for the annual Cinema Eye Honors to recognize yet another great year in documentary film. The Camden International Film Festival was there as a proud sponsor of the Awards show for the 2nd straight year. The Cinema Eye Honors have quickly become an extremely important event that [...]
I had the chance to see a great new documentary last night from the team at Late Night & Weekends - "Still Bill", a rare and unique look at Bill Withers - the man behind "Lovely Day", "Use Me", "Grandma's Hands", "Ain't No Sunshine", "Just the Two of Us". I missed it at SXSW and [...]
Silverdocs officially begins today with a screening of the new Lebron James doc, More then a Game (after last night, shouldn't this film be about Kobe?). Besides being the biggest and best programmed documentary film festival in the US, Silverdocs also boasts more panels, workshops and other industry events then just about any other other [...]
Aside from having the sickest posters around, the Independent Film Festival of Boston (IFFB) continues to bring some serious titles to nearly every corner of Boston. Now in its 7th year the festival continues to provide a wonderful outlet for documentary filmmakers. This year will be no exception. Adam Roffman has once again delivered a [...]
As if we needed more reasons to head south - another round of films on the radar at SXSW: Still Bill - an unseen profile of Bill Withers from the team at Late Night & Weekends. Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsqqWWzaWbI] -Leah
Here are a few more documentary films premiering next week at SXSW in Texas. Unfortunately, most of the SX Global films only screen once at the fest. Films below come from the SX Global and Lone Star State Categories. Over the Hills and Far Away (missed this one at True / False and have regretted [...]
This Wednesday at Half King at 23rd and 10th ave in nyc filmmaker Diana Whitten is joined by the subject of her upcoming film "Vessel", Dr. Rebecca Gomperts. Whitten is a dynamic emerging filmmaker who has been working with Dr. Gomperts for the past 2 years - traveling the word capturing her story, the stories [...]
Premiering at Sundance this week, Eric Daniel Metzgar's new film is attracting quite a bit of attention in Park City and online. Already acquired by HBO, it could be because at this point with two acclaimed works under his belt, Metzgars work is highly anticipated. As a filmmaker he continues to push the boundaries of [...]
Nerakhoon (The Betrayal), opened in NY this weekend at the IFC and is a film worth seeing if there are screenings near you. The piece follows the life of Thavisouk Phrasavath as he grows up in Laos during the Vietnam war, escapes to Bangkok after his father is picked up in the night to go [...]
The uncanny ability of documentary film to dive deep into unique sub-cultures of our world at the same time as they offer broad understanding of human nature and the way elements relate to one another is something that never ceases to amaze me. On the surface, it doesn't seem logical - audiences and sales agents [...]
