“The Loving Story”: Symposium Will Follow Screening of Acclaimed Documentary on Civil Rights Case, March 1–2, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Nancy Buirski, founder of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, made her directorial debut with The Loving Story, which premiered last year at Full Frame and went on to be short-listed this year for an Academy Award for best documentary. A screening on March 1 will be followed by a panel discussion, and on March 2, a symposium, which [...]
Full Frame Winter Series: Upcoming Free Screenings at the Carolina Theatre
The Full Frame Winter Series features three documentary film screenings; all screenings begin at 7 p.m. and take place in Fletcher Hall at the historic Carolina Theatre . The Winter Series is free and open to the public. Wednesday, January 18–Buck Directed by Cindy Meehl 2011 / US / 88 minutes Wednesday, January 25–Hell and [...]
Video Available: Panel Discussion—”Art and Advocacy”—From the 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
In 2011 the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival introduced panel conversations with filmmakers and other industry professionals. This panel on Art and Advocacy, covered the following ground: As documentarians struggle to finance their films, organizations with advocacy agendas become a rich source of funding. Does this present a dilemma for filmmakers who might not have [...]
Development Job Opportunity at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Development Associate Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Durham, North Carolina The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, a program of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, is seeking a Development Associate to work directly with the Executive Director of Full Frame on all aspects of fundraising, including individual gifts, grants, sponsorships, and government [...]
Full Frame Screens Two New Documentaries November 3 and November 7
Every year the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival hosts a free screening for area schools and teachers. This year, the screening of Full Frame founder Nancy Buirski’s directorial debut, The Loving Story (77 minutes), with a post-screening discussion is open to students, educators, and the general public. Screening: The Loving Story Thursday, November 3, 10 [...]
The Full Frame Fix at the Nasher Museum of Art October 15-16
Saturday and Sunday, October 15-16, 2011 Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University A weekend matinee marathon featuring favorites from the 2011 Festival and newer titles which have yet to reach North Carolina. FREE and open to the public, first-come-first-served. October 15 (1:00 p.m.) The Swell Season Directed by Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins, and Carlo [...]
“Freedom Riders” Film Screening October 20 in Chapel Hill
The documentary Freedom Riders, recent winner of three Emmy Awards, is the powerful, harrowing, and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives—and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment—for simply traveling together on buses and trains [...]
“Rebirth”: Free Film Screenings in Observance of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11
The documentary Rebirth (Jim Whitaker, 2011, 108 minutes) chronicles the lives of five people directly affected by 9/11. From early 2002 through 2009, the film’s crew followed a survivor from the South Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC); a firefighter who survived the collapse of the WTC but lost his best friend; a high school [...]
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Summer Documentary Camp 2011
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival kicked off its first-ever documentary summer camp for teens in 2011. A handpicked group of students from Southern High School in Durham, North Carolina, participated in a five-week workshop in which they made several short documentary films. The camp was led by award-winning filmmakers Nic Beery and Todd Tinkham. [...]
Call for Entries Open for the 2012 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is now accepting entries for the 15th annual Festival to be held April 12–15, 2012 in Durham, NC. Films submitted will be eligible for the NEW DOCS competitive program. Full Frame exhibits nearly 100 feature-length and short documentary films in various categories during the four-day festival. In 2011, [...]
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival on the Documentary Channel
The third season of DocTalk, a 30-minute program produced by the Documentary Channel that takes an inside look at the world of contemporary documentary film, includes two episodes filmed at the 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina. DocTalk – Full Frame Episode 1 – Airing July 15 Episode 1 features interviews [...]
Full Frame Movies on the Lawn Screening: Soul Power
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Movies on the Lawn series features four music documentaries that will take you on a journey from music fan to concert goer to reminiscing with iconic songwriting legends. Screenings are free and open to the public and begin at dusk (9 p.m.) on the main lawn at the American Tobacco Campus. [...]
Full Frame 2011 Movies on the Lawn Summer Series
For the second year in a row, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is collaborating with American Tobacco to present Movies on the Lawn. This summer’s series features four music documentaries that will take you on a journey from music fan to concert goer to reminiscing with iconic songwriting legends. Screenings are free and open [...]
Full Frame Movies on the Lawn Screening: Troubadours
The Full Frame Movies on the Lawn series features four music documentaries that will take you on a journey from music fan to concert goer to reminiscing with iconic songwriting legends. Screenings are free and open to the public and begin at dusk (9 p.m.) on the main lawn at the American Tobacco Campus. Troubadours: The Rise [...]
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Announces Record Attendance
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival announced numbers for the 2011 Festival, and record attendance yielded 1.78 million dollars for the local economy. Festival organizers report almost $200,000 in total sales from passes and single tickets, seating over 29,000 patrons and selling out a record 34 events. Full Frame featured 99 films screened at seven [...]
Nancy Kalow on “Visual Storytelling: The Digital Video Documentary”
Nancy Kalow is a folklorist and filmmaker who has taught at the Center for Documentary Studies since 2000. She attended Harvard University (A.B.), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.A.), and was a Rockefeller Fellow at UNC’s University Center for International Studies. She has documented southern traditional music and material culture, Primitive Baptist [...]
“Visual Storytelling: The Digital Video Documentary” E-book by Nancy Kalow
Visual Storytelling: The Digital Video Documentary By Nancy Kalow Visual Storytelling, the Center for Documentary Studies’ first e-book, is for anyone who wants to make a watchable short documentary using a consumer camcorder, digital SLR camera, or cell phone. Nancy Kalow, who has taught at CDS for twelve years and chairs the selection committee of [...]
Full Frame Award Winners: CDS Filmmaker Award Plus Special Jury Award
The 2011 Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award, one of eleven awards presented at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (held April 14–17 in downtown Durham, North Carolina), went to How to Die in Oregon, directed by Peter D. Richardson. The profound and deeply intimate film takes a piercingly close look at the struggle of [...]
“Office Hours” with Tom Rankin: An Insider’s Look at Full Frame
Recorded in a live webcast on April 15, 2011, Tom Rankin gives an overview of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, held April 14–17 in downtown Durham, North Carolina. Full Frame, a program of the Center for Documentary Studies, is an annual international event with more than 100 screenings, panel discussions, conversations, and late-night entertainment. [...]
2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (April 14–17)
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of nonfiction cinema. Each spring Full Frame welcomes filmmakers and film lovers from around the world to historic downtown Durham, North Carolina, for a four-day, morning-to-midnight array of over 100 films as well as discussions, panels, and southern hospitality. [...]
News About the Upcoming Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (April 14–17)
The 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will be held April 14–17, in Durham, NC, with Duke University as the presenting sponsor. The 2011 film schedule is now available online. Please visit the FILMS+EVENTS page of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival website for film descriptions, dates and times of screenings, and venue locations. Information [...]
Full Frame Winter Series Screening: Waiting for “Superman”
The Full Frame Winter Series features three of the 15 documentary films shortlisted for the 83rd Academy Awards. All screenings are free and open to the public. Waiting for “Superman” will be the last screening of the series. Waiting for “Superman” Directed by Davis Guggenheim Wednesday, March 9, 7 p.m. Bay 7 at the American Tobacco Campus, [...]
“Guilty Pleasures” Selected as the Opening Night Film for the 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
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, each marked by their particular connections to Mills & Boon romance novels. “We are thrilled to host Guilty Pleasures on Opening Night,” said [...]
