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Not entirely sure why much lauded docs films that stuck out this year in Janus Metz's Armadilllo, Lixin Fan's Last Train Home, Michelangelo Frammartino's le quattro volte and Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol failed to make the grade (I'm not entirely sure how this works with the cut-off dates), but there are plenty on the list of 15 that have earned the right to be deemed among the best docs of the year, almost shockingly they included Exit through the Gift Shop and thankfully didn't bother with Catfish. Not surprisingly, a major launch-pad for the documentary form with at least eight examples below (if my count is good) is the Sundance Film Festival. The preliminary round of voting will determine five noms (announced live on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, at 5:30 a.m. PT) and the only one I can honestly say is a shoe-in for a top 5 nom spot is Charles Ferguson's Inside Job.

Zeitgeist Films are partnering once again with the folks that produced Up the Yangtze - returning to the same country but instead of the brown waters of the Yangtze, this journey takes place in and on the sides of the train tracks.

The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program have infused more than half a million dollars in grant money to 16 film projects and in the same measure, this list of depressing worldly film subjects also gives us a peak at some of the docu selections we'll be seeing in the upcoming editions of the film festival.