2018 Tribeca Film Festival Awards: ‘Diane,’ ‘Smuggling Hendrix,’ and More Take Top Honors NEW YORK, NY:  Mustafa ÖNDER Alia Shawkat was named best actress in a US narrative feature for Duck Butter, while best actor honours went to Jeffrey Wright for O.G. Best Cinematography in a US narrative feature Film went to Wyatt Garfield for Diane. The Nora Ephron Award awarded a $25,000 prize to writer-director Nia DaCosta for Little Woods. T...

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NEW YORK, NY: Mustafa ÖNDER The Filmmaker Welcome Party during the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival at The Bowery Hotel on April 20, 2018 in New York City.   Photographs by © Mustafa Önder http://mustafaonder.com Copyright ©2018 Mustafa Önder, All Rights Reserved.   ...

NEW YORK, NY: Mustafa ÖNDER Guests enjoy the STUDIO 54 The Documentary Tribeca Film Festival Party at Night Fever Pop Up Disco / The Museum of Sex, on April 24, 2018 in New York City  STUDIO 54 The Documentary Tribeca Film Festival Party at Night Fever Pop Up Disco / The Museum of Sex, on April 24, 2018 in New York City  STUDIO 54 The Documentary Tribeca Film Festival Party at Night Fever Pop Up Disco / The Museum of Sex, on April 2...

A Four-Part Virtual Reality Docu-Series at the Tribeca Film Festival. Place the headset and headphones on and submerge yourself  into four short films, in four different global locations, all relating to climate change. Look up, down, left and right, and swivel in your chair 360 degrees to get the complete effect. FEAST: (approximately an eight minute long 360 immersive), starts off with an aerial view flying high over the Brazilian Amazon rainforests. As you look down, you see trees vi...

With warmer days just around the corner, you don't want time to escape you! The Earlybird Deadline for the New York Short Documentary Film Festival is August 17, 2018.  Submit your short Documentary film but - it MUST be 20 min or less! To submit visit: https://filmfreeway.com/NYCSDFF Visit our website for photos and information: http://nycsdff.com/ Follow us on Twitter for fun documentary news and other important updates/reminders: https://twitter.com/NY...

This busy may for Susan Kucera the director of LITFP follows the very successfull entry on the circuit in April with 11 selections. 6 FESTIVAL WINS SO FAR Garden State Film Festival 2018:  Best Documentary Award NewYork Festivals: Best documentary on climate change and sustainability from New York Festivals (founded in 1957)  Gold United Nations award for "Outstanding Achievement in International Communications which best exemplifies the i...

Filmstill Festival Trailer The programme of DOK.fest 2018 is online. To give you a quick overview we have sorted and structured our online programme by themes, sections as well as days. In our tag search, everyone will be able to find the "right" film – from people who are interested in politics or theatre to party animals or cinema and art lovers. Our programme sections present relevant and pressing issues from all over the world on big screens – in the c...

  WHEN PIGS COME by Biljana Tutorov, world sales: Slingshot Films, Italy   EFP‘s New Collaboration with Hot Docs Kicks Off in Toronto  THE CHANGING FACE OF EUROPE – European Film Promotion’s (EFP) new collaboration with Hot Docs presenting outstanding documentaries that reflect on the social and political changes affecting Europe today – will bring 17 directors and producers to North America’s most important docum...

On the heels of Netflix’s pop-culture phenomenon Wild Wild Country  comes two true crime original documentary series, Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist and brand new episodes of the critically-acclaimed series The Staircase, which will launch alongside the original ten episodes. The next chapter of The Staircase will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.   View the first look sizzle here.   The Staircase follows the compelling s...

  East Silver, a documentary market specialized in Eastern and Central European documentary film, is open for submissions. Submit your film to the largest internationally recognized database of creative feature and television documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe.   Application deadlines for the 15th edition:  Submission deadline for films produced in 2017: March 31, 2018 Submission deadline for films produced in 2018: May 31, 2018 Submission dea...

    Documentary formats have become more and more popular, whereas production conditions in are getting worse. During DOK.fest, a special event featuring this controversy is going to focus on the future of German feature documentary films and trying to find solutions for the dilemma.  CINEMA AT ITS BEST?  Conference on the future of German feature documentary films on May 3rd, 2018 during DOK.forum 2017 The ...

THE CHANGING FACE OF EUROPE   THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS by Simon Lereng Wilmont What moves people in Europe? What triggers and lies beneath the manifold changes in the political, social and economical landscape? For a better understanding and insight into the rapidly evolving processes affecting Europe today EFP (European Film Promotion) in collaboration with Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival (April 26 - May 6, 2018) presents T...

From February 15 to 26 The Museum of Modern Art presented its 17th annual edition of Doc Fortnight with more than 20 documentary feature films and numerous short films. The international program included filmmakers and artist leading post screening discussions. Virtually all documentary features were shown for the first time in New York, including several world premieres. The program carried several productions shown before at major film festivals like Sundance and Berlinale. The selection ref...