National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $27 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment’s first major funding announcement for fiscal year 2019. Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $30,000 to the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, a program of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Art Works is the Arts Endowment’s principal grantmaking program. The agency received 1,605 Art Works applications for…
The deadline to apply is February 25. Apply for Teach the Teachers Teach the Teachers is open to any middle or high school instructor within the Durham Public School system. The 2019 program will take place on the following dates: March 14: Pre-festival meeting (5:30 pm) April 4 – 7: Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Week of May 6: Post-festival meeting (afternoon) Since 2011, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has run the enormously successful free…
2018 Full Frame Opening Night Film RBG and 2018 Full Frame award winners Hale County This Morning, This Evening, Minding the Gap, and Of Fathers and Sons are nominated for Best Documentary! Catch Free Solo and Minding the Gap as part of the Full Frame Winter Series. More
Presented by Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. and American Tobacco Campus, the Full Frame Winter Series presents FREE documentary screenings at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Durham. Don’t miss this chance to catch up on your must-watch list in time for the Academy Awards! January 31 – Three Identical Strangers February 6 – Free Solo February 14 – Minding the Gap Free RSVPs are recommended and can be made via Eventbrite beginning at 9 am the day before each screening.
The inaugural students of Full Frame’s School of Doc after school program presented the world premiere of their film, Carolina Lightnin’: Bluegrass in the Triangle, to a sold out crowd at the Full Frame Theater.
Award-winning filmmaker and Full Frame Alum Marco Williams (Two Towns of Jasper, The Undocumented, Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities) recently visited the 2018 School of Doc After School students. Marco shared with them his experiences and insights from his career, and accompanied them on their shoot at the Blue Note Grill in downtown Durham. We are lucky to have the support of filmmakers like Marco who selflessly give their time to…
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival exhibits nearly 100 documentary films in a variety of programs. Submitted films will be considered for both the NEW DOCS and Invited Program categories. Filmmakers whose films are selected for Full Frame will be notified at the time of acceptance whether their films will be screening in the NEW DOCS or Invited Program categories. Films screening in the Invited Program are not eligible for awards. See the 2019 Submissions…
On July 17, Full Frame’s 2018 School of Doc students presented the world premiere of their film project Renaissance of Reuse: The Scrap Exchange to a sold out crowd at the Full Frame Theater. Check out the photo album, and be sure to catch their free screening at Full Frame 2019!
On Wednesday, Full Frame hosted RaMell Ross, one of the most acclaimed documentarians of 2018. He generously mentored School of Doc students and answered questions about his journey as a filmmaker and his work, including his groundbreaking documentary and 2018 Full Frame Grand Jury winner Hale County This Morning, This Evening. It was an experience the students, staff, and instructors will not soon forget. “Visits from established filmmakers like RaMell make a career in documentary…
Full Frame is accepting applications for a seven-month paid programming internship position that will begin in mid-September 2018 and end in mid-April 2019. The intern will gain broad experience in various functions of the festival programming department and obtain an overall view of how festival content is determined, organized, and exhibited. The intern will be based at the Full Frame offices in Durham, North Carolina, for the duration of the internship. The 22nd annual festival takes…