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Monday Memo: Filmmaker Greyson Arrested in Egypt 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Canadian filmmaker John Greyson, along with doctor and potential film subject Tarek Loubani, were arrested in Egypt this week while considering beginning work on a documentary film about Loubani’s wor...
Monday Memo: Cutie and the Boxer Released 19 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Zachary Heinzerling’s profile of Ushio Shinohara and his wife Noriko, CUTIE AND THE BOXER, reached theaters this week. Anthony Kaufman wrote about the film and its place in the oeuvre of “art” docs fo...
Monday Memo: Al Jazeera Announces Doc Unit 12 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
The Qatari government-funded news channel Al Jazeera America this week announced the launch of a new documentary film unit, with former National Geographic TV executive Kathy Davidov joining the outfi...
STF alum Shola Lynch discusses “RUNNER” 12 Aug 2013 | 04:04 am
written by Nikki Erlick Forty years after the enactment of Title IX, ESPN Films and espnW celebrates the landmark amendment with the documentary series Nine for IX, featuring nine documentaries – all...
Monday Memo: TIFF Lineup Announced 5 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
This week the big news was the announcement of the doc films to be featured at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. Coverage of the news came from all corners of the web. Jennie Punter o...
Monday Memo: News and Documentary Emmy Noms Announced 15 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences this week announced the nominations for this year’s news and documentary awards. Barry Walsh covered the announcement at Realscreen. ITVS’s Beyond ...
#FF: Oppenheimer, Moore, Porter, Haviv, Hondros & More 12 Jul 2013 | 10:33 pm
Here are my doc Tweets of the week: Watch Werner Herzog and @errolmorris talk about the new documentary ‘The Act of Killing’ http://t.co/1R6m4Oj0HU @DanielZiv @DanijStanojevi — Joshua Oppenheimer (@...
Monday Memo: PBS Expands Netflix Agreement 8 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Adam Benzine of Realscreen reported that Netflix had expanded a licensing agreement with PBS that would make a number of docs, including several works from Ken Burns, available on Netflix’s streaming ...
#FF: Doc Tweets on Gasland II, Jafar Panahi, SundanceNOW, Fred Wiseman & More 5 Jul 2013 | 07:49 pm
Here are 10 doc Tweets that stood out in the stream this week. Tip us off to your favorites at @thompowers. “The ‘hybrid documentary’ is not a subgenre, it is a mode of tactical filmmaking.” http://t...
Monday Memo: A Band Called Death Released in Theaters 1 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
The film A BAND CALLED DEATH about Detroit’s proto-punk band Death from directors Jeff Howlett and Mark Covino hit theaters this week. Elisabeth Greenbaum Kassom interviewed Howlett and Covino for the...
