Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

  • Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Announces 15 films for 2011 Invited Program

    Page One: Inside the New York Times

    The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival continues to add films to what is already an outstanding lineup of films. The full schedule of films will be announced later this week.

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  • 2011 Full Frame Festival to Feature 66 NEW DOCS

    Bobby Fischer Against the World

    The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has just announced the 66 selections for the NEW DOCS program.  The program consists of 43 feature films and 23 shorts from all over the world. 

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  • 10 Films for 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival “One Foot in the Archives” Program

    The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

    The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival scheduled for April 14-17, 2011, in Durham, North Carolina has announced the 10 selections for the 2011 Thematic Program, “One Foot in the Archives.” Archivist and filmmaker Rick Prelinger has curated a series of programs that showcase the role of archival material in the construction of documentaries.

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  • The World Premiere of “The Loving Story” Directed by Full Frame Founder Nancy Buirski at 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

    The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival announced the World Premiere of “The Loving Story,” directed and produced by Nancy Buirski, Full Frame’s founder.  Buirski helmed the Festival from 1998 through 2007. “The Loving Story” will be featured as a Center Frame program at the 2011 Festival and will be presented outside of competition.

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  • 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival to honor Filmmakers behind Joan Rivers Documentary

    Burma Soldier

    The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival scheduled for April 14-17, in Durham, N.C., has announced its lineup of films around the 2011 Career Award honoring filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg.  Five titles have been selected for the tribute, including early and more recent work from the duo’s Break Thru Films banner . The lineup also includes the U.S. Premiere of “Burma Soldier,” which will be featured as a Center Frame program on Saturday, April 16.

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  • Full Frame Announces 2011 Opening Night Film; U.S. Premiere of “Guilty Pleasures”

    The 14th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will open with the U.S. Premiere of “Guilty Pleasures.” Director Julie Moggan’s vibrant feature traces the experiences of five individuals from around the world marked by their particular connections to Mills & Boon romance novels. We meet a successful romance novelist whose female pseudonym produces countless bestsellers, a male cover model in search of a soul mate and three women enraptured by paperback romances, whose perceptions of relationships are entangled with the scripted portrayal of courtship. As they navigate love in a modern age, we are captivated by their endearing and all-too-human journey.

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  • Full Frame Announces 2011 Festival Program News

    The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has announced their Thematic Program, 2011 Career Award and the first US Premiere of the 2011 festival.  Rick Prelinger will curate a series around archival footage for the Festival’s 2011 thematic program. The 2011 Career Award will be presented to Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, who will present the US Premiere of their most recent film “Burma Soldier” at the 14th annual event.

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