News about the film and/or documentary industries.
Nominations for this 2021 Critic’s Choice Documentary Awards were announced last week, and SDFF multi-year alumni filmmaker Ben Proudfoot was among the nominees. Proudfoot’s Queen Of Basketball (U.S., 22 mins) is part of his ongoing Almost Famous series of New York Times Op-Docs about female basketball player Lusia Harris, who played in the ’76 Olympics and was drafted to […]
CRITICS’ CHOICE DOC NOMINEES ANNOUNCED! Read More »
Negotiations Stop Hollywood Shut-Down, But Dismayed Workers Discuss Rejecting Deal IATSE-AMPTP negotiations may not have gotten quite the “Hollywood ending” initially touted by the union after a tentative agreement was reached on Saturday night. While IATSE claimed victory with a “landmark” agreement, outlets from Variety to Indiewire have reported the deal could be rejected by union members who disappointed
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Streaming Contract Negotiations May Auger Future for Other Hollywood Guilds Members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, or IATSE, voted overwhelmingly earlier this week to authorize a strike if negotiations break down with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The vote to authorize the strike was a landslide with 98.7% of 90% of
IATSE Authorizes Potentially Historic Strike in Landslide Vote, Negotiations Continue Read More »
The Sundance Institute has hired Toronto International Film Festival co-head and executive director Joana Vicente as its new CEO, replacing Keri Putnam, who is exiting after 10 influential years. Vicente’s return to the U.S. industry comes at a precarious moment for Hollywood independents still reeling from the pandemic year, with art house theatrical releases, film
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Filmmaker Claims Show Producers + CBS Deceived Him About ADA Compliant Ramp to Stage Following the Emmy Awards show on Sunday night, Crip Camp director Jim Le Brecht put his activist chops to work, publicly criticizing the Television Academy and CBS for deceiving him about installing an ADA compliant ramp up to the stage. In advance of
Worsens Conditions for Many Filmmakers Relying on Streaming During Pandemic In late February, a number of independent documentarians found the already difficult tasks of accessing new audiences at home and making ends meet in a pandemic even more arduous when their films were expelled from Amazon Prime Video Direct as part of a blanket policy
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Two long-time, fabled festival directors have moved on in the last two months. After many tireless years at the helm, Hot Docs Executive Director Brett Hendrie and Full Frame’s Director Deidre Haj are both leaving their respective leadership roles, having accomplished groundbreaking work. Their impact will remain, but their absences will be felt as documentary
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Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival is proud to announce that it has been approved by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as an Academy Qualifying Festival for the Documentary Short Subject category. Currently in its 13th year, the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival’s mission to bring the best in documentary film to Sonoma County has
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