18 November 2009 — NY, NY: IndiePix Films announced today the acquisition of distribution rights to “Harrison Montgomery”, the film written and directed by Daniel Davila and featuring two time Oscar Award Winner, Martin Landau. In San Francisco’s poverty-stricken Tenderloin district, would-be artist Ricardo Papa is trying to make ends meet as a petty drug [...]

Herewith begins my journal on the Sheffield International Documentary Festival (aka SIDF). The sections in this journal will start with the trip up from London, first impressions and registration (see Getting There) and then the scoop on the opening night events and performances (see Opening Night). What a strong start to a great [...]

The Wellcome Trust is the foundation arm of Burroughs Wellcome, the very large UK pharmaceuticals company (perhaps best known for its work in bringing to the market AZT, one of the important AIDs related drugs). The Trust, explained Dan Glaser, the cheerful head of “Public Engagement” is to see that the company is engaged [...]

I didn’t plan it this way, but the Founders and Sponsors Dinner was held at the Leopold Hotel (I found out after I arrived). This gave me a couple of minutes to go up to the room and get cleaned up and calmed down after seeing Jack Charles story. The dinner was full of [...]

It’s been raining a lot in Sheffield while the festival has been going on, and that makes the evenings a little cold and damp — but the streets are quite lovely. So crossing these streets as quickly as possible, I went to a screening of BASTARDY: Addict, Homosexual cat burglar, actor, aboriginal — [...]

You can tell that things are getting serious when the crowd that sees and wants to be seen is up before 8am and crowding the must-be-seen-in spot. Find out the details following …
The rendezvous of choice is the Hotel Mercure St Paul’s, located next to the ornate, Victorian, Town Hall. The Hotel [...]