Short Film News - Simultaneously with the trip of Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, to Tehran, Documentary & Experimental Film Center (DEFC) decided to make a documentary on this prominent anti-American politician.
The shortlist for the 2006 Grierson Awards agreed by the Grierson Trust and reviewers.
They have selected 77 documentaries in nine categories to go forward to the next stage in the competition.
The shortlisted films will be seen by independent panels of judges who will select four films in each category to be nominated for the final awards.
Short Film News - The Big Sky Film Institute announced the 2006 Big Sky Film Series.
The series will take place at the Wilma Theater, downtown Missoula, Montana, on the first Friday of select months throughout the year, screening documentary films from around the world. The series is free and open to the public.
Short Film News - A project consisting of 7 documentaries by seven blind Iranian filmmakers kicked off under Mohammad Shirvani in the Documentary & Experimental Film Center.
Mohammad Shirvani thought of this project last year when he started teaching screenwriting and directing in the charity institution of The White Stick for the blind.
Short Film News - The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund announced the result of its first round of grants in 2006.
The 605 thousand-dollar money contribution is given to 15 long documentary projects to be made individually or independently in the U.S.A, Cambodia, Israel, Philippines, Turkey, Colombia, and Liberia.
Short Film News - The Toronto International Film Festival launches a set of new resources for documentary filmmakers and industry delegates attending the Festival.
Short Film News - Punto de Vista, the Navarra International Documentary Film Festival, is inviting submissions for the next edition of the festival which will be held from 23rd February to 3rd March 2007, in Pamplona, Spain.
Short Film News - An Iranian team is working to make a documentary film about the craftsmen and intellectuals of the Islamic world.
According to the Turkish newspaper Zaman, the team, including some of Iran's Academy of Art and TV crew, is in Turkey to begin shooting.
