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In terms of documentary film servings in the fall (pre IDFA in November), in the hands of Thom Powers, TIFF's former Real to Reel...

It's probably too early to call 'Year of the Decade', but 2011 is certain to be a major contender for that prize eight years from now; at the moment, it's at least the best since 2007, which did battle with 2006 for the king of the previous decade. But I'm getting ahead of myself, jumping the gun a bit to look at the big picture, when in fact, this has been a year of many great small ones.

While I've yet to see the doc myself (I reference Claire Denis' White Material when I think of what the film might hold narratively), when the Cinema Eye Honor Noms were released I was surprised to see that, despite the positive buzz, Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson's Mugabe and the White African only manage to grab one nomination. Clearly the film is a favorite for the 2009 edition of the IDA Awards - it picked up three nominations in the Feature Documentary, ABCNews VideoSource Award an the Pare Lorentz Award categories.

In the post screening Q&A, Chris Smith's noted that a “black cloud” has been hanging over the project – whatever his hurdles were, the forecast looks pretty darn good, in my estimation this might be the doc film that comes out of TIFF with the best of chances for a theatrical release.

Chris Smith may have wanted to close the books on his documentary filmmaking portion of his career, but when one falls on a charismatic and controversial person such as Michael Ruppert, I guess you hit the breaks, hire a great directory of photography to help in Edward Lachman and you make sure that you don't run out of film.