documentaries

More Awards Confusion: Only 2 PGA Doc Nominees Are on Oscar Shortlist

Awards
 December 2, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Top 5 List includes "Bill Cunningham" and "Project Nim," doing nothing to clarify confusing documentary-awards picture

  

'Hoop Dreams' Director Is Snubbed Again by Academy

Awards | Oscars
 November 18, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Steve James's "The Interrupters" doesn't make the documentary shortlist; Werner Herzog also snubbed

  

'Senna,' 'Il Castello' and 'Better This World' Win New IDA Doc Awards

Awards
 November 17, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Documentary organization also announces that awards show will be hosted by Josh Fox, Tiffany Shlain and Eddie Schmidt

  

Oscar Doc Race: This Year, It's a Free-for-All

Awards | Oscars
 November 15, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Even Martin Scorsese is in the running in a very confusing year for Oscar documentaries

  

IDA Awards Honor Les Blank, 'How to Die in Oregon'

Awards
 October 27, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

International Documentary Association nominations leave out many of the year's best-known docs

  

Cinema Eye Honors Salute Top Docs -- And Justin Bieber, Too

Awards | Oscars
 October 26, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Teen pop idol's concert film is a quirky addition to lineup of critically-acclaimed documentary nominees

  

Mayan Filmmaker Offers Photo as Proof of Aliens, Says Hawking Agrees (Exclusive)

Movies
 October 26, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

A giant carved head is proof that Mayans entertained visitors from outer space, say filmmakers

  

Why Can't the Academy's Doc Branch Learn to Have Fun?

Awards | Oscars
 October 18, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Uplifting titles like "Pina," "Swell Season" and "Being Elmo" are around this year - but longshots for Oscars. Hey, it's okay to have fun at the movies

  

Academy Shortlists 8 Documentary Shorts

Awards | Oscars
 October 13, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Several of the shortlisted filmmakers are previous Oscar nominees

  

Tim Hetherington's 'Diary' Named Finalist for Cinema Eye Award

Awards
 October 11, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Short from journalist killed in Libya makes list of 11 finalists for nonfiction short film award

  

Mayan Documentary Will Show Evidence of Alien Contact, Says Mexico (Exclusive)

Movies
 September 26, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Filmmakers, Mexican government will reveal secrets about the extraterrestrials who took Mayans off the planet -- seriously!

  

Devastating 9/11 Doc Struggles to Find a Home as Anniversary Nears

Movies
 August 22, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

DocuWeeks entry "S.O.S./State of Security" has had an easier time overseas than here at home

  

DocuWeeks Kicks Off in L.A. -- Will Give 24 Films an Oscar Boost

Movies
 August 19, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Docs about Cuban architecture, Death Valley community among first group to take aim at the golden statuette

  

Letterman Doc Funds Oscar-Qualifying Run Through Web Plea

Movies
 July 19, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

The crowd-funding campaign for "Dying to Do Letterman" reveals the costs of competing for an Academy Award at DocuWeeks

  

'Wish Me Away' a Moving Chronicle of Chely Wright's Coming Out

Movies
 July 17, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Country singer Chely Wright jeopardized her career when she came out of the closet; indie doc provides a raw and riveting account

  

From Afghanistan to Elmo: This Year's DocuWeeks Lineup Revealed

Movies
 July 6, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Annual Oscar-qualifying showcase to screen in Los Angeles and New York in August and September

  

Bad Ideas and Good Journalism in NYT Documentary 'Page One'

Movies
 June 22, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Writer David Carr and director Andrew Rossi talk about the project, which screens Wednesday night at the L.A. Film Festival

  

How Colin Hanks Crowd-Sourced His Doc on Tower Records

Movies
 June 17, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Shunned by normal financiers, Hanks quickly raises $60,000 on Kickstarter for his look at historic music retailer

  

When Filming in China, We Learned to 'Take the Deal'

Movies
 June 2, 2011 By Brook Silva-Braga 1 year ago

Hollyblog: We learned an easy lesson filming "The China Question" in 2009 -- after Wednesday's Gmail crackdown, that lesson gets harder to explain

  

Oprah Embraces Poetry Doc -- and Complicates Things for 'Louder Than a Bomb'

Movies
 May 25, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Makers of vibrant high-school poetry film find Oprah's Doc Club a new destination in a changing landscape -- but it comes at a price

  

Cohen Media Group Snares 'Chasing Madoff'

Deal Central | Companies
 April 15, 2011 By Joshua L. Weinstein 2 years ago

The production and distribution company acquires a documentary about an investigator who spent 10 years trying to expose Bernard Madoff's ponzi scheme

  

Doc/Fest, IndieGoGo Partner to Fund Docs on Rock, Environment and The Donald

Movies
 April 7, 2011 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

Documentary festival teams with crowdfunding platform to single out five films

  

Cinema Guild Acquires 'Hoop Dream' Director's 'The Interrupters'

Movies
 March 28, 2011 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

Acclaimed look at inner-city violence from Steve James will be released theatrically in the summer

  

Sony Picks Up Rapaport's Tribe Called Quest Doc 'Beats, Rhymes & Life'

Media | Movies
 March 10, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

Actor's directorial debut about legendary rap group screened at Sundance

  

SnagFilms' New iPad App Allows Free Streaming of Indie Docs

Media | Movies
 January 6, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

SnagFilms releases ad-supported application for Apple tablet

  

'Catfish's' Schulman: We Aren't Smart Enough to Make This Up

Awards
 December 17, 2010 By Jordan Riefe 2 years ago

“It never occurred to me it would end up being a movie -- it was just me having a friendship," the film's subject said at TheWrap's ongoing Academy Screening Series

  
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