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Tribeca sets dates
Short Film News (SFN) -The Tribeca Film Festival announced that the tenth annual Tribeca Film Festival will be held April 20 – May 1, 2011. [more...]

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NETPAC celebrates 20th anniversary with Imaging Asia

Motamed Arya making doc on female Iranian cineastes

Sundance selects grant recipients

9th FIKE Short Film Festival Calls for Entries

9th Third Eye Festival Calls for Entries

Hamburg Short Film Fest Award Winners Announced

Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund Announces Finalists

Cannes 2010 Short Film Palme d'Or Stay in France

Cinefondation Award Winners Announced

Italy Awards Iranian documentarian Kamran Shirdel Order of Merit

Iran News

Motamed Arya making doc on female Iranian cineastes

Short Film News (SFN) -Iranian actress Fatemeh Motamed Arya is trying her hand at filmmaking with a documentary about seven Iranian cineastes. Motamed Arya has worked several years on Seven Women Who Like Cinema before she began production. [more...]

Italy Awards Iranian documentarian Kamran Shirdel Order of Merit

Iranian filmmakers receive the EDN Award 2010

Six Iranian Films at TIFF Fest

Documentary

Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund Announces Finalists

Short Film News (SFN) -The Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci announced the recipients selected for the 2010 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund. This year, the Fund provides finishing finances to domestic and international documentary filmmakers with feature-length films that document pressing social issues of immediate and historical significance. [more...]

San Sebastian Fest to focus on docus

HOT DOCS Announces Winners

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Announces Award Winners

World News

NETPAC celebrates 20th anniversary with Imaging Asia

Short Film News (SFN) -The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year with a film festival and conference, called Imaging Asia, to be held August 18-22 in New Delhi. [more...]

Tribeca sets dates

Sundance selects grant recipients

9th FIKE Short Film Festival Calls for Entries

Interviews

SFN INTERVIEW / Ciak Junior Festival Director, Sergio Manfio

Marjan Riahi (SFN)- Born in Treviso, Italy, Sergio Manfio He is the President and the Head of the creative department of Gruppo Alcuni Srl. He is a world renowned Italian author and director in the animation domain who has directed many short and feature animation films and series. [more...]

SFN INTERVIEW / ZOOM-ZBLIZENIA Festival Director, Sylwia Motyl-Cinkowska

Cinema Never Dies

SFN INTERVIEW / Third Eye Festival Director, Sudhir Nandgaonkar

Festivals

Short Shorts Film Festival
Entry Deadline:  1 December 2010

Other Sites

Scorsese documentary on Kazan set for DVD via Fox
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones' documentary "A Letter to Elia" on DVD Nov. 9, one month after the film airs on PBS' "American Masters" series.

Brad Pitt narrates Super Bowl film
Brad Pitt is the NFL's voice for its upcoming documentary on the New Orleans' Saints Super Bowl victory.

Spike Lee screens new Katrina film in New Orleans
Spike Lee screened portions of his follow-up documentary about Hurricane Katrina in front of a big crowd at Mahalia Jackson Theater in New Orleans.

Tokyo cinema drops Japan-set docu "The Cove"
The first cinema due to show "The Cove" in Japan has bowed to pressure from right-wing protest groups and pulled the documentary from theaters.

Indonesian filmmaker documents Obama's childhood
An Indonesian filmmaker said Monday that his upcoming movie about the childhood of President Barack Obama will portray how the diversity of Jakarta influenced the future president.

Dubai film festival partners with Beirut DC
The Dubai International Film Festival has inked a strategic partnership with Beirut DC, a Lebanon-based organization that promotes independent filmmaking, to strengthen local documentary filmmaking skills.

Stone takes docu 'South of the Border'
Oliver Stone is taking his docu "South of the Border" on a whirlwind tour with a series of premieres in Spain and South America to be attended by the presidents of Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Venezuela.


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