Short Film News (SFN) -The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will screen 55 filmd in its New Docs program. These docs have been selected after considering over 1,200 submissions.
Acclaimed films Burma VJ by Anders Ostergaard, Lady Kul el-Arab by Ibtisam Mara'ana, Oblivion by Heddy Honigmann, Rough Aunties by Kim Longinotto, and We Live in Public by Ondi Timoner are among the selected titles.
Short Film News (SFN) - Hot Docs International Documentary Festival announced 9 filmmakers, industry professionals and journalists will sit on the 16th edition of festival's jury.
In the category of international features, the jury members are Esther van Messel, CEO, First Hand Films; John Greyson, filmmaker; and Cara Mertes, director of the Documentary Film Program, Sundance Institute.
Short Film News (SFN) - Sunny Side of the Doc, the French market for documentaries announced a series of six 52-minute documentaries retracing the history of the Soviet bloc, will be presented at the 6th Co-production Rendez-Vous in Sofia.
Short Film News (SFN) - Anders Ostergaard's award-winning documentary Burma VJ - Reporting From a Closed Country will open the 11th One World Human Rights Film Festival in Prague, Czech Republic.
The documentary which won IDFA 2088 Joris Ivens Award in November, is about a young Burmese reporter who decided to make a detailed record of anti-government demonstrations in September 2007 together with some colleagues.
Short Film News (SFN) - British filmmaker Kim Longinotto's Rough Aunties won the best feature award at the 6th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
The documentary is about a group of women who protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, South Africa, and the jury acclaimed "bravery of the film's characters which is mirrored by the unflinching courage of the filmmaker's vision."
