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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Announces 2020 Award Winners
Media Contact: Emily Foster, Marketing Director | emily.foster@fullframefest.org Durham, N.C. – April 22, 2020 – Seven awards for a combined value of $47,500 in cash prizes are announced for the 2020 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Full Frame is a qualifying event for nominations for the Academy Award®Documentary Short Subject category and the Producers Guild of America Awards. The four-day event, originally scheduled to run April 2–5, was canceled amid COVID-19 concerns. “We’re incredibly…
23rd Annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Announces Official Selections
MEDIA CONTACT: Emily Foster, Marketing Director emily.foster@fullframefest.org | 513-503-3200 23rd Annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Announces Official Selections With continued sponsor support, the festival moves forward with cash juried awards, despite the four-day event’s cancellation Durham, NC – Tuesday, March 31, 2020 – The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival announces the official feature and short film selections for the festival’s 23rd edition. The NEW DOCS program and Invited Program includes 44 features and 12…
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Approved for $30,000 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Durham, N.C. – January 28, 2020 – The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, a program of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, has been approved for a $30,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support filmmaker travel and venue costs. “Full Frames strives to produce a world-class festival experience that ignites important conversations among audiences and filmmakers,” states Full Frame director…
Award-Winning Documentary Film Kifaru to Screen for Free in Shelby, NC
The screening will be held on October 24, 2019 at 7 pm at The Don Gibson Theatre in Shelby, NC. Free RSVPs are now available on Eventbrite.
Award-Winning Documentary Film Inventing Tomorrow to Screen for Free in Rocky Mount
June 13, 2019 at 7 pm at the Power House at Rocky Mount Mills. RSVP via Eventbrite. Press Contact: Chris Everett Rocky Mount, NC – As part of its Common Ground series, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will partner with Rocky Mount Mills to present the internationally acclaimed documentary Inventing Tomorrow. The film follows six young scientists from around the world as they tackle some of the most complex environmental issues facing humanity today.…
Full Frame Announces 2019 Lineup
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s American Factory selected as Opening Night Film Bognar and Reichert—2019 Tribute Recipients Amazing Grace selected as Closing Night Film 2019 Thematic Program, Some Other Lives of Time, curated by filmmaker RaMell Ross Press Contact: Sylvia Savadjian | pr@fullframefest.org Durham, N.C. – March 11, 2019 – The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is pleased to announce the complete lineup for the 22nd annual festival, April 4–7, 2019. Full Frame will screen documentary features…
Full Frame Honors Dr. Benjamin D. Reese Jr. of Duke University with 2019 Advocate Award
Durham, N.C. – February 26, 2019 – The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is proud to announce that it will honor longtime festival supporter Dr. Benjamin D. Reese Jr. with its 2019 Advocate Award. The prestigious Advocate Award is given annually in recognition of individuals who exemplify the heart, soul, and spirit of Full Frame through their leadership and support of the festival and the documentary community. The award will be presented to Dr.…
Full Frame 2019 Thematic Program Curated by RaMell Ross
Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker to attend 22nd annual festival, April 4– 7 photo by Maya Krinsky Durham, N.C. – February 19, 2019 – The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is pleased to announce that filmmaker, photographer, and writer RaMell Ross will curate its 2019 Thematic Program. Ross’s first film, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, has been described as the birth of “a new cinematic language” (Village Voice) and is nominated for the 2019 Academy Award® for…
Full Frame Announces 2019 Tribute Recipients Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
Bognar and Reichert will attend the 22nd annual festival, April 4 – 7 Photo by Eryn Montgomery Press Contact: Sylvia Savadjian | pr@fullframefest.org Durham, N.C. – February 5, 2019 – The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is proud to announce that it will honor distinguished filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert with its 2019 Tribute. The festival will showcase a curated selection from their significant body of work at the 22nd annual festival,…
Full Frame Debuts Common Ground Project with Free Screening of Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
The screening will be held on October 25, 2018 at 7 pm at the Joy Performance Center in Kings Mountain, NC. Free RSVPs are now available via Eventbrite.