press release

April 9, 2006: Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Announces Awards

Attendance breaks all records
2007 Festival Tenth Anniversary Dates Set for April 12-15, 2007

(Durham, North Carolina) The ninth annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival came to a close Sunday April 9th with record-breaking attendance. The final ticket number for the 2006 festival was 20,121, with an estimated 2540 additional viewers coming for the films showing post-barbecue bringing the total number of tickets to 22,661 for 2006. Last year, as of Sunday's Southern Style Barbecue and Awards Ceremony, tickets issued climbed to 18,572 and with Sunday's afternoon screenings added in, the final number was approximately 19,000. The opening day box office tickets, 4205, broke last year's 3797 final tally. Festival passes bought this year were 2360 as compared to last year's 1964. Spread throughout six theater venues, the festival sold out 17 films. Even the number of local volunteers grew this year from 205 to over 340.

"Our festival this year addressed an issue that has been in the headlines and on the minds of Americans all year: class and its impact on our culture." Festival Founder, CEO, and Artistic Director Nancy Buirski reflected. "After four days and over 100 films and discussions that went on late in the night, the energy, intelligence, and optimistic resolve that our filmmakers, industry colleagues, and audiences brought to this festival will hopefully have an influence far beyond this event here in downtown Durham. We are thankful for all the support shown to our festival and the talented filmmakers whose films brought us to places and introduced us to people and stories with such vision and creativity."

New Docs: Films in Competition, which featured 53 features and 20 shorts this year, was sponsored by A&E Indie Films. ClickStar, Inc., a broadband entertainment company founded by Revelations Entertainment in 2005, joined the Full Frame Festival through their sponsorship of the Grand Jury prize. In addition, ClickStar CEO James Ackerman and actor Danny DeVito chose the festival to announce their new initiative, Jersey Docs, an artist-created entertainment channel dedicated exclusively to documentary films that will be available for digital download on ClickStar's broadband entertainment service.

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is produced by Doc Arts Inc. a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The presenting sponsors are The New York Times and Duke University.

Contact:

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
919.687.4100
info@fullframefest.org