“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 [...]
Full Frame Winter Series Screening: The Tillman Story
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. The Tillman Story Directed by Amir Bar-Lev Wednesday, February 9, 7 p.m. Bay 7 at the American Tobacco Campus, Durham About The Tillman Story Pat Tillman gave up [...]
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Accepting Applications for the 2011 Garrett Scott Grant
The Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant funds first time documentary makers for travel and accommodations at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, April 14-17, 2011. For four days, grant recipients will be given access to films, participate in master classes and be mentored by experienced filmmakers. TWO filmmakers will be chosen for the grant in [...]
2011 Full Frame Thematic Program and Career Award Winners Announced
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (April 14-17) has announced their Thematic Program and the 2011 Career Award. The Thematic Program is an annual program of films that are related through a central theme. A guest curator is invited each year to curate films around a timely subject or idea. The Full Frame Career Award [...]
Full Frame Winter Series at the American Tobacco Campus
The Full Frame Winter Series features three of the 15 documentary films shortlisted for the 83rd Academy Awards. Screenings begin at 7 p.m. and are located in the Bay 7 Cinema at the American Tobacco Campus. The Winter Series is free and open to the public. January 12, 2011 – CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND [...]
Full Frame Final Submission Deadline Approaching
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is accepting submissions for the 14th annual festival held April 14-17, 2011 in Durham, North Carolina. Short and feature documentaries completed after Janurary 1, 2009 are eligible for consideration. Submission Deadline: Final Deadline: November 30, 2010 A complete list of submission guidelines and requirements Check out last year’s 2010 [...]
Full Frame Benefit Screening of Martin Scorsese’s “A Letter to Elia”
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will hold a benefit screening of Martin Scorsese’s A Letter to Elia. Saturday, November 20, 7:30 p.m. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University A Letter to Elia (2010) is Martin Scorsese’s intensely personal and deeply moving tribute to the films of director Elia Kazan. Kazan’s body of work, [...]
Duke Human Rights Film Series Screening of “Rain in a Dry Land”
The Duke Screen/Society presents a screening of the documentary film Rain in a Dry Land as part of the Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series. The series features documentaries about human rights themes that were award winners at the annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Rain in a Dry Land was the winner of the Working [...]
The Full Frame Fix at the Nasher Museum of Art November 6-7
A weekend matinee marathon halfway to the next annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The Full Frame Fix features favorites from the 2010 festival and newer titles which have yet to reach North Carolina. Screenings will be held at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Free and [...]
Duke and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Formally Join Forces
Duke and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Formally Join Forces DURHAM, N.C. — For the average movie-goer, the annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will continue to be a four-day event where the latest and best nonfiction cinema from around the world will be shown each spring. In 2011, that means nearly 100 films, chosen [...]
Full Frame Festival 2010 Movies on the Lawn Film Series
This summer the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is screening four films with an entertaining take on sustainability and the environment. Selections include highlights from the 2010 festival, along with other new and older works. Free and open to the public, the films begin at dusk on the main lawn of the American Tobacco Campus. [...]
“In My Mind” Film
In My Mind Director: Gary Hawkins, Producer: Emily LaDue, Executive Producer: Tom Rankin In My Mind, a new film from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, traces the creation and performance of jazz pianist Jason Moran’s original interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s legendary performance at New York City’s Town Hall in 1959. Deeply inspired [...]
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Passes Now On Sale
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Passes Now On Sale April 8–11, 2010 See the “Attend” page on the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival website for details.
Video Available: Panel Discussion—”Wrongs and Rights”—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 Wrongs and Rights: Protecting Subjects and Footage, covered the following ground: Given the recent Appellate Court ruling on the film Crude, lawyers and filmmakers provide context to decisions that affect all documentary filmmakers. How can [...]
