On Monday, the in-transition Tribeca Film Festival announced its World Competition and Discovery sections, 38 films from what will be a slimmed-down 86 feature line-up. That's down from 174 films just three years ago.But amongst those 3 dozen-plus films are......

The Academy and Oscar producers did quite right by documentarians on Sunday night. First, a short film from Albert Maysles on the craft of nonfiction filmmaking (followed later by a shot of Al in the audience), then strong words of......

In Park City this afternoon, at the Queer Lounge on Main Street, the nominations were announced for the 2nd Annual Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking. Video of the Nominations Announcement will be posted shortly.Ari Folman’s acclaimed animated film, WALTZ......

Festival coverage sponsored by Indiepix. They say that no publicity is bad publicity, but what the hell is up with Jeffrey Ressner's article at Politico entitled "Atwater doc makes conservatives groan", a bizarre piece of constructed outrage wherein Ressner, a......

Each year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences welcomes new members (nominated and approved by the branches in which they work) and this year, the documentary branch is adding five women to its ranks, led by previous nominees......

It's hard to stay out of political waters when they are so inviting... Much is being said today about the reasons why Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic nomination for president. In a just-published campaign obit that posits Clinton will quit......

She's a fucking great writer: "The ultimate male power one-man-show, IRON MAN is less successful as political allegory than as sexual fantasia. Its most exhilarating moments are essentially pornographic: gadget porn, war porn, rehab porn (you don’t have to see......

Festival coverage sponsored by Indiepix. Gini Reticker's PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL, a look at how the women of Liberia brought a peaceful end to that country's bloody civil war, won the Best Documentary Feature prize Thursday at the......

Festival coverage sponsored by IndiePix. One of the joys of SXSW's nonfiction slate is it's breadth of content. One minute you're watching Jury Prize winner THEY KILLED SISTER DOROTHY about the death of a American nun and the next you're......

Despite screenings on Thursday, T/F's official opening day came on Friday with the second edition of the March Into Match... Composer Michael Furjanic (MANDA BALA, JESUS CAMP) with a trio of March-ers at the conclusion of the short parade. IndiePix......