Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

5 Things I Learned at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

Four days and a dozen screenings later, I've returned from 2013's Full Frame Documentary Film Festival -- one of the largest documentary film festivals in North America. I saw reality turned to art. I witnessed unforgettable moments (check out my notes on this panel). And I discovered the glory of B...

Sundance and True/False Programmers Discuss Festival Economics at Full Frame

This past weekend the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival hosted a speakeasy chat around the issues raised in the series of Indiewire articles that followed my Fair Trade For Filmmakers piece in this space. Props. It's a queasy discussion for many festivals, evident in some of the defensiveness tha...

To Pay or Not to Pay: Discussing Film Festivals, Money and What You Need to Know at Full Frame

In his Indiewire article "Fair Trade for Filmmakers," former Hot Docs programmer Sean Farnel made the case that film festivals owe something more to filmmakers than the honor of being selected. They owe them money. His contention that festivals should give filmmakers a cut of the ticket sales yi...

'American Promise' Tops Full Frame Winners

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has announced the winners of its 2013 edition, which ran this past weekend. Joe Full list of winners below, with descriptions and statements provided by the festival:The Reva and David Logan Grand Jury AwardThe Reva and David Logan Grand Jury Award was presen...

Exclusive: 2 Powerful Scenes From Health Insurance Doc 'Remote Area Medical'; Premieres at Full Frame

Last year, filmmaker duo Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman (2010's election doc "Gerrymandering") made a three minute informational doc on Remote Area Medical, a free, three day pop up medical clinic in Tennessee that specializes in providing care to Americans without health insurance. You can see the...

First Look At The 16th Annual Full Frame Festival Lineup & Opening Night Selection, 'Gideon's Army'

Full frame announced their complete program lineup today with Dawn Porter's critically-acclaimed "Gideon's Army" set as the Opening Night Film on Thursday, April 4th. The opening night selection, "Gideon's Army", is  an HBO Documentary Film. The film follows the personal stories of Travis Wil...

PGA Adds SXSW, Full Frame and AFI Silverdocs to Official Awards Eligibility List

The Producers Guild of America has added SXSW, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and the AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival to its list of official festivals for awards-qualifying films. Among other exhibition methods, theatrically released documentaries that have screened ...

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"Special Flight' Tops 2012 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Awards

“Special Flight” took two top awards at the 2012 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, which screened 102 films in its run April 12-15 in Durham, NC.