With a record audience of 165,000, the Hot Doc's Festival in Toronto, Canada, North America's largest documentary festival, conference and market, closed its most successful event last weekend. full story ![]()

"Broken Circle" was named best fiction film, while "Killing" won best documentary in the festival's Panorama Audience Awards.
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A film about a young man who set aside his comfortable life to help children at an AIDS orphanage in India won the top prize at the 2013 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, which continues thro…
missoulian.com (3 months ago)

The Tribeca Film Festival honored two films on Saturday night, awarding "The Rocket" and "Bridegroom" with the Heineken Audience Awards. The festival's audience cast votes for two Heineken Audience Awards, with "The Rocket" nabbing the award for narrative film, and "Bridegroom" taking home the award for documentary film. Directed by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, "Bridegroom" is...
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Officials from this year's festival have announced the premiere of a new behind-the-scenes documentary on the Brooklyn band
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The Rancho Mirage Public Library will screen audience favorites from the American Documentary Film Festival on Tuesday.
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Singer Dionne Warwick will be opening the American Documentary Film Festival on Thursday, April 4, 2013. The festival's opening night film will be the documentary about Warwick's famous cousin Whitney Houston and their family of singers...
examiner.com (1 month and 27 days ago)
The Tribeca Film Festival will get off to a musical start this year, with Tom Berninger's documentary, "Mistaken for Strangers," slated to open the festival's 12th annual edition, festival organizers said Thursday.
wsj.com (2 months and 25 days ago)
Beyonce’s documercial, “Beyonce: Life Is But a Dream,” attracted 1.8 million viewers to HBO for its Saturday 9 p.m. premiere, Nielsen said Tuesday. That’s the biggest audience for an HBO documentary in a decade. Beyonce co-directed the project. Read full article >>
washingtonpost.com (3 months and 3 days ago)

"Searching for Sugar Man" won Best Documentary Feature at the 85th annual Academy Awards. Best Documentary Film honors the best in non-fiction filmmaking. "Searching for Sugar Man" was the leader of a strong pack of nominees. The documentary focused on the search for Sixto Rodriguez, a failed singer-songwriter from the 1970s who was an unexpected hit in South Africa....
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 29 days ago)
BottleRock is teaming with the Napa Valley Film Festival to host a red-carpet kick-off for the music festival with the screening of the rock documentary, “Sound City,” on Monday at the Uptown …
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