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At Sundance, New Routes to Finding an Audience

By MO | Published: January 28, 2010
Brooks Barnes in The New York Times: PARK CITY, Utah — The starkest picture to emerge from the opening days of this year’s Sundance Film Festival may be of an independent film business forced to stretch in untested directions because its old distribution model no longer works. Standard operating procedure over the years at Sundance, the [...]
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Nonfiction Filmmakers Still Tell Rich Stories

By MO | Published: January 26, 2010
Chloe Veltman in The New York Times: The Bay Area has long been known as a center for documentary filmmaking. Many local documentarians have won or been nominated for Academy Awards, including Sam Green (“The Weather Underground”) and Robert Epstein (“The Times of Harvey Milk”). The area is home to the Independent Television Service, a major [...]
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Top 50 Documentaries of the Decade

By MO | Published: January 20, 2010
From The Documentary Blog: This is it. The end of the lists. Finally! So the other day I posted the best documentaries of the decade as selected by a group of acclaimed documentary filmmakers. Now, we’ve got The Documentary Blog’s own top 50 docs of the decade. More here.
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The ten best documentaries of 2009

By MO | Published: December 25, 2009
Roger Ebert in Chicago Sun-Times: Some of the best documentaries of 2009 hardly seemed to exist. “What’s the matter with Kansas,” based on a best-seller, is still awaiting its fifth vote at IMDb. “The Beaches of Agnes,” a luminous film by the New Wave pioneer Agnes Varda, grossed $127,605. More here.
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Ki Jana Main Kaun

By MO | Published: January 17, 2009
View this movie at cultureunplugged.com A documentary film by Sharjil Baloch about the harmony between Hindus and Muslims in Sindh, Pakistan.
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IDA’s 25 Best Documentaries Ever

By MO | Published: July 22, 2008
The International Documentary Association’s list of the top 25 documentaries ever.
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The 25 Top Film Festivals For Documentaries

By MO | Published: July 22, 2008
A list of the top 25 film festivals for documentaries
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Sundance Film Festival 2008

By MO | Published: March 8, 2008
Sundance Film Festival 2008
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Sea Turtles nominated for Genesis Award

By MO | Published: March 7, 2008
Geo TV’s documentary on Sea Turtles has been nominated for a 22nd Genesis Award in the Brigitte Bardot International category for “its excellent depiction of the perils facing the endangered sea turtles of Pakistan and the efforts being made to save them”. The Genesis Awards are held each year by the Humane Society of [...]
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Academy Award for Documentary Feature

By MO | Published: February 17, 2008
Academy Award for Documentary Feature
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