Tag: Documentary Film News

Exclusive: The Stone Speakers Trailer

The 69th Berlin Intl. Film Festival kicks off today and we have your exclusive first look at the trailer to The Stone Speakers (Kameni...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marco Proserpio’s The Man Who Stole Banksy

What do Park City and the West Bank have in common? At one point in time, they were both mural sites for Banksy originals....

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Daniel Patrick Carbone’s Phantom Cowboys

Beginning with Berlin and Tribeca Film Fest showings, Daniel Patrick Carbone made several stops on the 2013 film festival circuit with Hide Your Smiling...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Janus Metz & Sine Plambech’s Between Two Worlds

It certainly appears that we might one day be relating Janus Metz's film output in the similar realm as Jonathan Demme, Michael Winterbottom, Asif...

2015 True/False Film Fest: The End, A Festival Wrap Up

For being just a brief 4 days, True/False is a densely packed festival, and I mean that in the true celebratory sense, full of...

2015 True/False Film Fest: Finders of a Century of Heck? – Day 2

One of the joys of True/False, it turns out, is that nearly all of the post-screening Q&As are hosted not by programmers or associate...

2015 True/False Film Fest: “Something Better To Come” on Day 1

It must be said how nice it is to be free of the bone chilling cold which I've been enduring these last few months...

The Orchard Have Bulletproof Plan for Heineman’s “Cartel Land”

While top honors at this year's Sundance Film Festival would go to The Wolfpack, it is Matthew Heineman's Best Director Award and Special Jury...

Best of Fest – Docs: Laura Poitras Racks Up Noms For Citizenfour, IDFA Announces Awards (November 2014)

With year end lists already flooding the interwebs a full month before the actual year’s end, its hard to ignore the fact that awards...

The Orchard Adds Radice’s “No No: A Dockumentary” to Win Column

The Orchard waited until today, which happens to coincide with the hallmark anniversary date of Dock Ellis’ no-hitter to announce their pick-up. Via their docu...

O-Scope Do Whatever Common People Do; Distrib Grabs SXSW Docu “Pulp: A Film About Life, Death, And Supermarkets”

Austin's tents might be put away and the venue halls are emptied but the flurry of expected post SXSW fest deals are in overdrive....

Please Don’t Stop the Music; BOND/360 Like the Sounds of Aud Fave “Alive Inside”

Not unlike the Beanie Baby popularity of the 90s, it appears that 2014 batch of Sundance docs are all the craze among indie and...

Climate Change Made Fashionable? Inconvenient Truth Sequel in the Works

Directly on heals of the U.N.'s more news is not good news announcement, producer Lawrence Bender told THR that a sequel to An Inconvenient...

F For Fake…Oscilloscope Grab “Art and Craft” Prior to Tribeca Film Fest Premiere

If Tim's Vermeer found traces of lenses and mirrors in the painting process, Sam Cullman and Jennifer Grausman's Art and Craft looks to set...

Boston Bulger; Magnolia Adds Berlinger’s Gangster Docu to Most Wanted List

A couple of months post festival, and a large number of Sundance preemed docs are being cuffed up by the docu distrib forces around...

Share This; Sundance Preemed Docu on Aaron Swartz is Selected for 2014 Hot Docs Fest Opener

North America's premiere docu-buffet destination has selected the type of docu that in one sweeping motion is an insightful, touching and infuriating tale about...

Sundance 2014: Rossi, Belzberg, Soechtig Among 16 U.S. Docu Comp Invites

Of the sixteen titles that are listed here there are at least more than half that will be talked about throughout the calendar year...

Netflix Hit the Pavement…Jehane Noujaim’s The Square to Preem on VOD

While documenting  the downfall of a regime via the protest's core viewfinder certainly provides for some raw nuggets of docu gold material, knowing that...

Radius-TWC Finds “Supermensch” Groovy Baby; Myers’ Docu Slated for 2014

Among the more curious offerings at this year's TIFF, actor-comedian-writer turned docu-helmer Mike Myers is among the lucky ones in a post-festival timeline to...

Oscilloscope Cares About the Young Folks; Matt Wolf’s “Teenage” to Hit Theatres in ’14

Answering the questions you didn't know you had about how your parent's parents, and for that matter, your grandparent's parents were like when they...

Cinedigm & Team of Docu Backers Have a Heart for Sundance Winner “Blood Brother”

Docu-lovers can consider themselves lucky as Steve Hoover's Blood Brother, the  life-affirming, altering account which is regarded as one of the top offerings so...

Oscilloscope Slams Breaks on SXSW Preemed Docu 12 O’Clock Boys

A little after two weeks since it world premiere at the SXSW Film Fest, Oscilloscope Laboratories have hit the clutch and will spin off...

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