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2009 Sundance Film Selections: World Cinema Documentary Competition
With a little bit more than half the films being world premieres, this year's World Cinema Documentary Competition tally of 16 were chosen from 744 submitted docs.
Frozen River claims top prize at the Gotham Awards
Ballast might have lead the total number of nominations, but it is Frozen River who picked up a pair, including Gotham Awards’ top prize. Really?
2008 Indie Spirit Awards noms: Ballast tied with Frozen River and Rachel Getting Married?
I’m pleased by some of the names and film titles that were nominated in the fifteen categories and especially glad to see that Lance Hammer’s Ballast grabbed six nominations but I’m perplexed by one of the two films it shares a total of six nominations with.
Sundance’s 2009 New Frontier to showcase 15 Projects
Prior to announcing the make-up of their film schedule (stay tuned for mid-week announcements), the Sundance folks announced the selection of artists and scientists whose work will be presented in the New Frontier section.
Satellite Award Noms: Australia leads Tech while Milk is Spilt in Main Categories
Essentially, the Annual Satellite Award nominations (now in their 13th year) is some crazy round up that resembles what the Golden Globes usually looks like, and with the extra categories it comes as no surprise that we find a horrible picture like Baz Luhrmann's Australia leading the nominations (thankfully it covers the tech categories and not the main) with Van Sant's Milk and Boyle's Slumdog leading the main caegories.
