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VAR | "Sicko" Set for June 29th U.S. Release
Michael Moore's "Sicko," which will debut next week at the Cannes Film Festival, is set for a June 29th release in the U.S., according to Variety. The Hollywood trade paper indicated that The Weinstein Company will co-release the film with Lionsgate, in part to ride on the coattails of Lionsgate's p...
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DISPATCH FROM TORONTO: Hot Docs Fest Comes of Age
Weather can be as important to film festivals as it is to weddings... especially in Toronto. Particularly so for a festival like the Hot Docs where the distance between the Bloor and Royal cinemas can seem like a million miles on a cold, rainy (or even snowy) Toronto spring day. Hair gets ruined. An...
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iW NEWS | Hot Docs Presents Prizes
Awards were presented Friday night at the 2007 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto. In the International Feature Documentary competition, Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken's "Losers and Winners" from Germany won the top prize, with a special jury prize awarded to Michael Skolnik's "Without The King." Bryan Friedman's "The Bodybuilder And I" won the award for best Canadian feature documentary, while a special jury prize in that category went to Serge Giguere's "Drive By Dreams." Johanna Lunn's "Forgiveness: Stories For Our Time" won the mid-length documentary prize and Arturo Cabana's "Man Up" won the award for best ...
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DOC COLUMN | Are Green Docs Hot?
It seemed to come out of nowhere: a high-production value theatrical doc featuring the then media-shy former presidential candidate Al Gore. Skeptics abound prior to the release -- it was tough to imagine that an intellectual stiff like Gore could carry a feature doc about, of all things, global war...
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DISPATCH FROM NORTH CAROLINA | At a Weekend Doc Fest, Full Frame Celebrates 10 Years
Ten years ago when the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, then called Doubletake, had its freshman outing few could have predicted not only how much the festival would grow, but how much the documentary form would grow along with it. For ten years, the festival has served as an incubator and a ba...
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"Monastery" and "Devil" Each Win 2 Prizes at Full Frame Doc Fest
The 10th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival came to a close today in Durham, NC with Pernille Rose Gronkjaer's "The Monastery" winning both the grand jury award and the Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award. Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern's "The Devil Came on Horseback" also won two p...
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indieWIRE INTERVIEW | "Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis" Director Mary Jordan
Director Mary Jordan's doc biopic "Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis" centers on underground filmmaker, photographer, actor, performance artist, Lower East Side fixture, homosexual, and anticapitalist Jack Smith who was a central figure of New York underground culture from the 1960s until h...
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DOCS MONTHLY | The Doc Blogs: Part of a Thriving Online Film Community
Ever wonder how the term "blog" was coined? Most people know it comes from the word "weblog", which was first used by Jorn Barger back in December of '97, but the shortened version came into use when Peter Merholz cleverly turned "weblog" into "we blog" in the sidebar of his brilliant Peterme.com i...
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DISPATCH FROM GREECE | At a Doc Fest in Thessaloniki: Euro Premieres and "Troubled Innocence"
Sitting in a smoky cafe outside the John Cassavetes theater, filmmaker (and fest honoree) Steven Bognar is holding forth on the differences between Greek and North American audiences. "Greeks are not afraid to ask confrontational questions. This gives a Q&A a sense of uncertainty that&...
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Haupt's "Song for Argyris" Wins Thessaloniki Doc Prize
The 9th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival concluded today in Greece awarding its ERT3 Audience Award for a film in the official selection to Stefan Haupt's "A Song for Argyris" from the U.S., while the audience prize for a short film went to Ruby Yang's "The Blood of Yingzh...
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