■ Documentaries Food, Inc. and Fresh spotlight food politics
Food politics are in the movie theatre spotlight with the release of two new documentaries Food, Inc. and Fresh. Food, Inc., by Robert Kenner, concentrates on showing the inner workings of the industrial food complex and its far reaching consequences.

■ Paris Cinema Int'l Fest to host Iranian film, animations
The 7th edition of Paris Cinema International Film Festival is to host three short animations and a movie from Iran.

■ L.A. Film Fest picks winners
Sam Fleischner and Ben Chace's "Wah Do Dem" (What They Do) earned the Target Filmmaker Award for best narrative film, while Juan Carlos Rulfo and Carlos Hagerman' "Those Who Remain" (Los Que se Quedan) took home the Target Docmentary Award at the Los Angeles Film Fest, which concluded Sunday.

■ North East talent premiered at film festival
North East film making talent is to be showcased at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival through a series of screenings alongside work from international heavy weights such as Samm Mendes and Lars Von Trier.

■ 'Dominic' tops Toronto short fest
French director Nicolas Silhol's "My Name Is Dominic" on Sunday earned the best live-action short film award at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto.

■ American making Iran election documentary
American director James Bertrand Longley is currently in Iran to make a documentary about the 10th Iranian presidential elections.

■ Documentary filmmaker Allan King dead at 79
Allan King, the acclaimed Canadian documentarian who took viewers on a harrowing journey into a home for troubled children in "Warrendale" and trained his unflinching lens on a crumbling marriage in "A Married Couple," has died at age 79.