Short Film News (SFN) - Ten new documentaries at the rough cut stage have been selected to participate in IFP's prestigious Independent Filmmaker Lab taking place this week.
The Labs are free mentorship program for low-budget first feature films which have shot all or a substantial amount of footage for their features but have not completed post-production. The goal of the program is to connect mentors with projects before they are submitted to festivals.
Short Film News (SFN) - Sunny Side of the Doc is going to celebrate its 20th anniversary June 23-26 at La Rochelle, France.
The event will bring industry professionals together to share their ideas, projects and visions of the documentary cinema's future.
Short Film News (SFN) - Hot Docs announced the 25 projects from 13 countries will be presented at the 10th Toronto Documentary Forum (TDF) which will be held May 6 and 7, 2009.
"The TDF is thrilled to present this 10th annual forum of dynamic documentary and factual content which will appeal to the international broadcasting community and most importantly, audiences around the globe," said Elizabeth Radshaw, director of the TDF.
Short Film News (SFN) - Eurodoc, the French network for documentary filmmakers will go to Visions du Reel Festival to celebrate its 10th anniversary.
The organization which has been devoted entirely to the training of European producers, will present an anthology of films from its workshops, a debate and etc.
Short Film News (SFN) - Sundance Institute and Skoll Foundation announced the final five grant recipients of the Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Focus Through Documentary initiative.
The announcement, which includes a film about Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, was made at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, the premier annual conference that brings together the world's foremost practitioners and leaders in the field.
Short Film News (SFN) - Amsterdam Documentary Festival's Jan Vrijman Fund selected 21 projects for the first selection round of 2009.
The fund considered 248 projects from 42 countries and in total, an amount of € 223.900 was granted to chosen projects.
Short Film News (SFN) - James Marsh's Man on Wire and Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir won several prizes at the 2nd Cinema Eye Awards, honoring outstanding achievement in documentary filmmaking.
Marsh's film won the Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking prize and the production and editing prizes, while Waltz With Bashir won four awards including achievement in directing, music, graphic design and animation, and best international feature.
Short Film News (SFN) - 171 films from 39 countries is going to be shown at the 16th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, which runs April 30-May 10 in Toronto.
The festival will screen films in 10 competitive, thematic and special programs and 36 of these docs will be receiving their world premieres.
Short Film News (SFN) - Gianfranco Rosi's documentary Below Sea Level won the main competition prize of the 11th One World Human Rights Film Festival in Prague.
Rosi's film, which has won Cinema du Reel and Venice Festival's Horizons Awards, is about US/Mexican border life, and he received his prize from Czech Minister of Culture Vaclav Jehlicka.
