Category Archives: Film Festivals

Winter camp is over, and I’m back from Park City UT after a week and a half of helping to expose audiences to a new crop of exciting films at Sundance. Acquisitions deals are still being reported, so between theatrical and VOD releases, broadcast, and other festival exposure, I hope that most if not all of this year’s lineup will be available to be seen by what (not) to doc readers over the next year.

The 2012 Sundance awards ceremony took place on Saturday night, revealing jury and audience winners for the US and World Cinema Documentary and Dramatic Competitions, as well as an audience award for the NEXT section. Earlier in the week, additional ceremonies revealed the Shorts winners and the Mahindra, NHK, Sloan, and other special prize recipients. The list of awards recipients announced Saturday are: Continue reading →

With the 2012 Sundance Film Festival opening tonight, I’ll be too busy in my role as Programming Associate for the festival to post regularly here. So, over the next eleven days, while I’m introducing film screenings and moderating Q&As, this blog will essentially be on hiatus, though I am planning on posting this coming Tuesday, January 24 when the nominees for Best Documentary Oscar are announced. Beyond that, normal, daily frequency won’t resume until after Sundance wraps on Sunday, January 29.

In the meantime, you can catch up on my film-by-film profiling of all 39 feature documentaries in this year’s line-up, beginning here, and get quicker and shorter updates and impressions from Park City by following me on Twitter.