Seeds, Brittany Shyne’s documentary portrait of Centennial farmers in the geographical south has won the Full Frame Grand Jury Award at the 2025 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Using lyrical black-and-white imagery, the film examines the decline of generational Black farmers and the significance of owning land.
The 27th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival taking place April 3-6, 2025, in downtown Durham, North Carolina has unveiled a lineup of forty-nine films from 30 countries
Award-winning editor and producer Jean Tsien will be honored with the 2025 Full Frame Tribute at the 27th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival taking place April 3-6, in Durham. The festival will also screen a curated selection from her significant body of work.
Hollywoodgate by Egyptian filmmaker Ibrahim Nash’at took the Grand Jury Award at the 2024 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. With an interpreter by his side Nash’at documents a Taliban group taking control of a former CIA base nicknamed “Hollywoodgate” just days after the U.S. Army’s controversial withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival announced the lineup of 50 titles including 35 features and 15 short films from 22 countries, for the the 26th edition of the festival taking place April 4–7, 2024 in historic downtown Durham, N.C.
Titled “In Process: Documenting Creativity,” award-winning filmmakers Jessica Edwards and Gary Hustwit has curated the 2024 Thematic Program of the 26th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival taking place April 4–7, 2024
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is ‘pausing’ its 2023 edition, as the organization Center for Documentary Studies continues what it describes as a “strategic planning process around the Center’s next chapter.” Plans are to return to an in-person event in 2024.
I Didn’t See You There directed by Reid Davenport won the Grand Jury Award at the 25th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Filmed in and around director Reid Davenport’s apartment in Oakland, California, this documentary is part essay, part travelogue, and part formal observational inquiry, all linked by the director’s subjectivity as a disabled filmmaker.
Move Me, a feature film made by and about a quadraplegic, world premieres at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival on April 7th, and also plays at the ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York on April 12th.
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival revealed the 37 official festival selections for the virtual 25th edition of the festival, which takes place April 7–10, 2022. Thirty films will screen as part of NEW DOCS and are eligible for juried cash awards.; and the Invited Program includes seven feature films screening out of competition.
The 24th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will take place June 2–6, 2021, two months later than the previously announced April dates. Organizers cite the pandemic’s impact on industry calendars, audiences, and the documentary filmmaking community for the date change.
The 24th Annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival which was cancelled amid COVID-19 public health and safety concerns still handed out jury awards to the official films selected for the festival. The top prize, Reva and David Logan Grand Jury Award was presented to Mayor directed by David Osit. This captivating portrait of life in Palestine under Israeli occupation follows Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, over the course of his second term as he navigates civic responsibilities in a volatile political climate.