Short Film News (SFN) - The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking announced that 15 feature documentaries have been named to the 2008 Cinema Eye Awards shortlist.
Films that were named to the shortlist received the highest vote totals across nine categories from nominations committee which was comprised of 15 festival programmers of nonfiction films.
Short Film News (SFN) - The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival announced the official selections for its sixth edition which includes 143 films from more than 30 countries.
This year's films cover the gamut of possibilities within the non-fiction form, with topics ranging from the ivory-billed woodpecker to art cars; from rock docs to opera; from Antarctica to Swaziland.
Short Film News (SFN) - Al Jazeera launched the Documentary Channel Website on the Documentary Channel's second anniversary.
The new website is an Arabic-language portal dedicated to promoting documentary films and culture. It will serve as a forum for communication between Al Jazeera Documentary Channel and its viewers, wherever they are located throughout the world.
Short Film News (SFN) - 9 projects have been chosen to receive a total of $246,000 in grants and no-interest loans from the Canwest-Hot Docs Documentary Funds in its second round of selections.
Established in April, the Funds consist of a $3-million completion fund and a $1-million development fund that aim to provide Canadian documentary filmmakers with much needed financial support at critical stages in their projects.
