Seven festival alums and two Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant recipients have been nominated for IDA Awards! Faya Dayi received three nominations, including Best Feature, Best Director, and Best Cinematography. Also nominated for Best Feature is In the Same Breath. Aguilas and E14 have been nominated for Best Short, Homeroom received a nomination for Best Editing, and The Doll is recognized with a David L. Wolper Student Documentary nomination. Previously announced, Garrett Scott Grant recipient…
Congratulations to all of the Full Frame alums nominated for Cinema Eye Honors this year! The 2021 Full Frame Grand Jury award-winner, Faya Dayi, has been nominated for five awards, including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature and Outstanding Direction. Also nominated for multiple awards includes In the Same Breath, Homeroom, and City So Real. Try Harder! and Fruits of Labor are both nominated for awards. Short film alums nominated include Águilas and Three Songs for Benazir, the…
Submissions are now open for the 25th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival! Short and feature documentaries completed after January 1, 2021 are eligible to submit for Full Frame 2022. For complete guidelines, please visit the Call For Entires page. All submission materials are due December 3, 2022.
Full Frame’s Production Director, Dan Partridge, has chosen Göran Hugo Olsso’s The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 (Full Frame 2011) as this month’s Staff Pick! Dan says: “I chose this documentary, because of the unforgettable scene from Angela Davis’s 1972 interview filmed during her unjust 16 month incarceration in California State Prison. Her words are profoundly powerful, and testify to her personal history and the intrinsic struggle of fighting for justice in America. Rewatching this documentary…
The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University is pleased to announce media innovation executive Opeyemi Olukemi as its new director. Prior to accepting the CDS directorship, Olukemi initiated groundbreaking partnerships, initiatives, and projects at the intersections of technology and storytelling—as senior director of interactive programs at Tribeca Film Institute and, most recently, as vice president of innovation and executive producer of POV Spark at American Documentary | POV. Founded in 1989 as a 501(c)(3)…
Maria Ressa, a Filipino-American journalist, co-founder of Rappler, and the protagonist of A Thousand Cuts (Full Frame 2020) has been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for her “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.” Read the complete announcement from the Nobel Prize organization here. A Thousand Cuts (dir. Ramona S. Diaz) President Rodrigo Duterte’s ruthless and ongoing war on drugs has plagued the Philippines since 2016, resulting…
This month, we look back on the touching story of Owen Suskind and his family in the film Life, Animated (Full Frame 2016). This Full Frame Audience Award-winner was picked by development manager Leesa Moore. Leesa reflects on her experience seeing the film: “Exploration into how we make sense of the world around us is probably my favorite theme in storytelling. LIFE, ANIMATED is a beautiful film filled with magical moments, wonderful feelings of nostalgia,…
“Dick Johnson is still alive,” proclaimed Kirsten Johnson, director of 2020 Full Frame alum Dick Johnson Is Dead on her Emmy for Outstanding Directing Full Frame congratulates Johnson for her win, along with Boys State, which took home the Emmy for Best Documentary or Nonfiction Special. Find out more about the films, and how you can watch them, below: Boys State (dirs. Jesse Moss, Amanda McBaine) Winner: Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special. Nominated: Outstanding…
In early 2010, shortly after being tapped to curate a Thematic Program that examined the human relationship to work for the 13th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, prolific filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert shared: “We are excited by the possibilities of putting together a dynamic, international, surprising collection of films, with a healthy disregard for what might traditionally be called a ‘labor documentary’… We are interested in films about labor itself, the actual…
Programming Manager Katelyn Liu has chosen Los Reyes for this month’s Staff Pick. Talking about the 2019 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival alum, Katelyn says, “Through the committed portraiture of Los Reyes, it was so easy to fall in love with and cheer for the two protagonists of the film: Football and Chola. Two strays dogs living in Santiago, Chile, Football and Chola offer insight into deep friendship as they chase abandoned tennis balls together…
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