Short Film News (SFN) - Organizers of Hot Docs International Documentary Festival announced that British documentarian Richard Leacock has been selected as the recipient of this year festival's Outstanding Achievement Award.
Leacock will receive the award at the Hot Docs Awards Presentation on Friday, April 25, and as part of the honor, festival will screen a retrospective of his works.
Short Film News (SFN) -The 4th edition of Navarra International Documentary Film Festival in Spain is going to have a retrospective program on Ermanno Olmi, the famous Italian filmmaker.
The winner of the Golden Palm at Cannes for The Tree with the Wooden Clogs in 1978 and the Golden Lion at Venice for The Legend of the Holy Drinker in 1988, Olmi started working in cinema field in the 50's by making documentaries.
Short Film News (SFN) - ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival will screen documentaries of the world famous film directors in a special program.
The festival will be held from February 25 to March 2 in Croatia, and will present documentaries from Louis Malle, Abel Ferrara, David Fincher, Abbas Kiarostami, Spike Lee, Carlos Saura, Jonathan Demme, Steven Spielberg, Jim Jarmush, Steven Soderbergh, and etc in this program.
Short Film News (SFN) -No End in Sight is the best documentary selected in 2007 in Indiewire critics' poll in which over 100 critics participated.
This is a critical film about Iraq War and is directed by Charles Ferguson and his name is among the candidates of Oscar 2008 for the best long documentary.
Into Great Silence by Phillip Groning is the second and King of Kong by Seth Gordon is the third ones in this voting.
