The nominations for the 78th Annual Academy Awards were made early this morning in Beverly Hills. The documentary nominees are: BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM MARCH OF THE PENGUINS MURDERBALL STREET FIGHT BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT THE DEATH OF KEVIN CARTER: CASUALTY OF THE BANG BANG CLUB GOD […]

So instead of broadcasting the ENTIRE awards show live from Sundance, the Sundance Channel put together a 30-minute show covering the highlights. You can catch it tonight on Festival Dailies on the Sundance Channel. And if you missed any of the coverage the Sundance Channel did on Festival Dailies they will be re-airing it over […]

From today’s New York Times. If you’re not a NYT member you can sign up for free to read the paper online.

Okay – they weren’t televised but my emailbox was just filled with press releases. I was going to edit out the narrative stuff, but decided to leave it in and printed the full press release below. In short the winners in docs are: God Grew Tired of Us – Grand Jury Prize: Documentary and Audience […]

Slamdance Announced the 2006 Awards today. The documentary winners are as follows: Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature Empire in Africa World Premiere – (2005, 87 min., USA) directed by Philippe Diaz. The story of the unjust war the international community waged against civilwar stricken Sierra Leone. Winner to receive a Sony HD camera […]

People keep asking me why I went home today. I mean, if I stayed I could have gone to to the Award Ceremony. Well, I assumed I would be able to watch it on TV as I have in past years. But after extensive searching it seems the show is not being televised this year. […]

This is the ninth in a series of Sundance Film Festival entries. I go home Friday, and it’s a good thing too since I’m running out of sweaters, socks and patience. Thursday was a crazy shuttle fiasco. We were on the shuttle, we were off the shuttle, we were on the shuttle, we were off […]

This is the eighth in a series of Sundance Film Festival entries. When I read in the program that there was a documentary about global warming starring and produced by former future president of the United States Al Gore I figured The Inconvenient Truth was the movie for me. And really if you have to […]

This is the seventh in a series of Sundance Film Festival entries. I always want to see films that change my worldview, make me think; films that make me want to do something. Who Killed the Electric Car? begins as a simple, dull, educational film about GM’s mid-nineties answer to nonpolluting vehicles, the stylish and […]

This is the sixth in a series of Sundance Film Festival entries. I came up with a theory on Sundance questions. These are questions that people ask you on the shuttle, at a party, on the street, wherever you may be that someone can get at you. 1) Where are you from? 2) What do […]