The wildly entertaining social experimenting guinea pig, Morgan Spurlock, will be on hand to host the 2008 edition of the IDA’s 2008 IDA Documentary Awards. Spurlock will be master of ceremonies at the gala event, which is set to take place on

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Congrats to our dear friends at Shooting People, and special shout out to the indefatigable New Yorker bureau chief Ingrid Kopp, on reaching the decade mark! Let the celebration begin! See all the details inside!

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Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky is a curious, Mercurial affair that casually embraces relevance. Leigh depicts the genuine enjoyment of life by a schoolteacher named Poppy who, for no clear reason, is able to successfully meet life’s simple challenges with a smile.

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Follow the jump for an image from HELLBOY 2: THE GOLDEN ARMY, the Guillermo del Toro-helmed fantasty actioner about to come out on DVD. I got a chance to check it out early, one of the fantastic perks

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In Laurent Cantent’s The Class (French title: Entr les murs/Between the Walls), a public school teacher in Paris grapples with frontiers that define and complicate his student body. The working class students,

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Now that I’m back from the mystical sunshiney world of the American Film Market in Santa Monica, I felt it was appropriate to throw my hat in the ring on the film economics debate. How did the largest U.S. market for films great and small fare in these panicked times?

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Three weeks, 5 countries, 9 venues, 100 meetings — and that’s just 3 weeks in the middle of the fourth quarter. We support the organizational infrastructure of the community, literally around the world. Find out more after the jump!

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