Dear Documentary Insiders, I don’t want to use this weblog as a complaining station, but could someone please give me more hours in the day! Al Gore, Martin Scorsese, World Premiere docs, Doc Talks and more, who has time to write?! Promising an update soon. Yours, SJ PS: Read the chutry experiment – he’s writing!

The 4th Annual Silverdocs/AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival started Tuesday night. I had planned to go to the opening night film and party. But – well – something happened. I’ll start at the beginning. I flew in Monday. But, I stay with my Aunt and Uncle in Baltimore. It’s only a 40-minute drive to Silver Spring. […]

Here are the doc award winners from Tuesday night’s SXSW awards show. JURY AWARDS Documentary Feature Winner: Jam Dir. Mark Woollen Special Jury Award: Maxed Out Dir. James D. Scurlock AUDIENCE AWARDS Documentary Feature Winner: Darkon Dir. Andrew Neel & Luke Meyer Lone Star States Winner: State VS Reed Dir. Ryan Polomski & Frank Bustoz […]

In Austin you gotta start the day with a breakfast taco. So off I went to Taco Shack. Conveniently located near the Austin Convention Center it was taco time and for less than 4 bucks it didn’t hurt my budget either (I’m starting to sound like Rachel Ray!). Tummy full I went to see Shadow […]

Monday I was determined to eat at Las Manitas and it worked out perfectly since it’s right near the Alamo Drafthouse. I sat at the counter chatting with a wonderful local woman. We ogled Owen Wilson together as he left the restaurant. But soon I had consumed my fajita quesadillas and I had to scoot […]

Woke up Sunday morning with nowhere to go for breakfast. Packed some turkey jerky and a Clif Bar (they’re a sponsor) in my purse and headed to Jam, a doc about fading San Francisco roller derby icons. Walking into town we passed the capitol building. I heard it’s the tallest capitol building in America. I […]

Saturday was not an easy day to get out of bed. But, driven by the sheer force to want to learn something and/or see something that would change my life I tripped over to the Austin Convention Center for a couple of panels. DVDs vs. Theaters and then Shooting Docs with a little BBQ thrown […]

Whoa. I’ve never been to Austin and it’s one heck of a place. I just came home from a loud party on 6th Street where the street is closed off and young people (I can’t believe I’m using the term “young people”) are out in their mini-skirts and cowboy boots respectively. It helps that it […]

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 […]

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 […]