As the summer enters its final frames, two docs - Amir Bar-Lev's "The Tillman Story" and Yael Hersonski's "A Film Unfinished" - led a batch of specialty debuts at the box office this weekend. The films share the distinction of being handed down controversial R-ratings by the MPAA (of which both "Til...
Read More »The 2010 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival announced the winners of their juried awards this evening at the Isabel Bader Theater in Toronto. Hosted by Canadian radio and television personality Jian Ghomeshi (who - for those unaware - jokingly explained himself as the "Persian-Cana...
Read More »One of America's most prominent documentary events, the AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival, unveiled its competition line up with 11 features competiting in both its "Sterling U.S. Feature Competition and "Sterling World Feature Competition." There are also over three dozen shorts...
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