Full Frame Winners Announced: Grand Jury, CDS Filmmaker, and Other Festival Awards
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival announced the 2013 festival award recipients on April 7, 2013, the last day of the sixteenth annual event. Ten awards and two Honorable Mentions were given, including Full Frame’s top prize, the Reva and David Logan Grand Jury Award (American Promise), and the Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award (Kalyanee [...]
Duke Visiting Filmmaker Laura Poitras: “The Oath” Screens October 22, Talk on October 24
Oscar– and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras—recently named a 2012 MacArthur Fellow—will visit Duke as part of the university’s Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Visiting Filmmaker Series and the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts Visiting Artist program. Screenings of three of her films will be followed later in the month by a conversation between Poitras and Dr. Diamonstein-Spielvogel at the Nasher [...]
Now Available To Read Online: Summer 2012 “Document,” the CDS Quarterly Newsletter
Document is a quarterly publication that features some of the best documentary work supported and produced by the Center for Documentary Studies. The summer 2012 issue of Document is now available to read online, featuring an in-depth look into the six stories coming from the documentary radio project Groundwork; the announcement of the CDS Filmmaker Award along [...]
2012 CDS Filmmaker Award Goes to “Special Flight”
The fifteenth annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, a program of the Center for Documentary Studies, was held April 12–15 in downtown, Durham, North Carolina. The event featured screenings of more than a hundred films from twenty-seven countries; the fifty-seven films in the NEW DOCS program were eligible for this year’s awards—including the Center for [...]
Out On DVD: 2011 CDS Filmmaker Award Winner, “How to Die in Oregon”
The winner of numerous honors, including the 2011 CDS Filmmaker Award and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentaries, How to Die in Oregon has been commercially released on DVD by Docurama Films . In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, an option that more than 500 Oregonians have taken. Filmmaker Peter Richardson examines both [...]
