Category Archives: Film Festivals

Festival:
The 30th anniversary IDFA

Dates:
November 15-26

About:
Yesterday’s post on the largest documentary festival in the world covered its competitive sections, while today’s looks at non-competitive programming. Continue reading →

Festival:
The 30th anniversary IDFA

Dates:
November 15-26

About:
The world’s largest nonfiction event bids farewell to founder and longtime director Ally Derks with its 30th edition, which showcases over 180 new and recent documentary features. Because of the size of the event, this overview is split in two, with today’s post covering the competition sections and tomorrow’s the non-competitive strands. Continue reading →

DOC NYC‘s industry programming series, DOC NYC PRO, comes to a close on Thursday, November 16 with a crash course in legal matters of vital interest to documentarians. Continue reading →

With DOC NYC opening today, my film spotlight ends with a look at the festival’s shorts programming, curated by Opal Hope Bennett: Continue reading →

My DOC NYC profiles begin to wind down with a closer look at the our picks for this year’s top nonfiction awards contenders: Continue reading →

Festival:
The 20th anniversary RIDM

Dates:
November 9-19

About:
Montreal’s well-regarded documentary event showcases more than 70 new documentary features in addition to shorts and retrospective programming. Continue reading →

The penultimate day of DOC NYC‘s industry programming series, DOC NYC PRO, takes place on Wednesday, November 15. Continue reading →

DOC NYC‘s ever-popular music doc section is in today’s spotlight: Continue reading →

Documentaries about activism are next up in my DOC NYC spotlight: Continue reading →