Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival announced today its full competition lineup for this year’s festival. Silverdocs is a leading festival in the showcasing of top quality documentary films and their filmmakers.  This year’s Silverdocs runs from 6/19/2012 – 6/23/2012.  For more information visit the festival webpage. This year’s Sterling U.S., World and Short competition films are: [...]

Wish Me Away is a personal and intimate look at Chely Wright, the first country music star to come out as gay. After a lifetime of hiding, she shatters cultural and religious stereotypes within Nashville, her conservative heartland family, and most importantly, herself. Over a three-year period, award-winning filmmakers Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf followed [...]

The Independent Film Project (IFP) is a leading force in nurturing the independent film industry and the many individuals that help it thrive in the surplus and depravity of intake of non-mainstream film.  IFP is putting a spotlight on documentary films in their Spotlight on Documentaries taking submissions from today (May 4th, 2012) through May [...]

Doc U: The Business Side of Documentary Filmmaking DATE CHANGE: WEDNESDAY MARCH 21, 2012 Doors Open: 7:00pm Discussion & Audience Q&A: 7:30pm – 9:00pm Wine Reception to Follow The Cinefamily 611 N. Fairfax Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90036 Documentary filmmakers come in all stripes and from all walks of life, and often the only shared quality [...]

Tribeca Film Festival recently announced their lineup for the World Narrative and Documentary Competition! This year, 12 narrative and 12 documentary features making their North American, International, or World Premieres will compete for combined cash prizes amounting to $180,000 and donated artwork from the Artists Awards program sponsored by Chanel, featuring renowned artists including Cindy [...]

In case you missed it, the 2012 NY Emmy Awards were announced a few days ago. Last Summer At Coney Island, available now on DVD and by Download/Stream, was nominated for Best Documentary! This film, directed by JL Aronson, is an intimate look at how Coney Island has transformed and all those who were affected [...]

A seamless combination of the innovative qualities of both genres, Concrete Circus fosters and develops the genres of sport and film into a aesthetically titillating documentary that showcases the lives of amazing athletes and the filmmakers that vy to match their passion with those athletes. The athletes in question are a mixed bunch, all with [...]

Kickstarter is a great resource for filmmakers with worthy causes to find those who, too, feel they are worthy. Generally, posting about a Kickstarter project is met with a burgeoning amount of reasons why to support it: not so here. The organic necessity of documentaries like “Second Class Citizens,” if it should be named that, [...]