I just realized while I was ordering in Chinese that I was sitting home on a Saturday night reading the documentary Oscar rules. It’s about that time…

The Road to Guantanamo poster, the LA Film Festival line-up, fair use. The doc community is talking. Why am I so quiet? Just busy! Planning to blog from Silverdocs next week and will also be covering the aforementioned LA Film Festival at the end of June.

I got an email 2 weeks ago asking me to pledge to see An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim’s new doc about global warming that stars Al Gore. I saw it in January at the Sundance Film Festival and have been talking about it ever since. Check out AJ Schnack’s blog for his full report on […]

It seems like everywhere I look people are busy talking about Cannes. In the midst of all the Cannes news and views Silverdocs announced their massive doc lineup for the 4th annual June fest in Silver Spring, MD, just around the corner from DC. Tickets went on sale and stuff is already selling out. Looks […]

Back at SXSW I loved Air Guitar Nation. The 2006 Air Guitar Championships are going on now! Inspired by my fondness for the doc about this unusual pastime I’ll be heading to the LA regionals at the Roxy on Saturday night. Hope to see ya there.

Music films are a crapshoot. The fans like it. The fans hate it. The filmmaker is a huge fan and can’t see the faults in the band…or the film. Someone who’s never heard the music before finds the film boring. Someone who’s never heard the music before finds the film fascinating. You know you’ve got […]

Back on April 7th (I know…I’m a lazy blogger) I went to the Academy’s Documentaries of Dissent, Part II. It’s nice that the Academy does so much to expose docs throughout the year, the Oscar’s Docs series, the Academy/UCLA Documentary Series and this, The John Huston Lecture on Documentary Filmmaking. The idea was to get […]

Yesterday Full Frame announced their awards for the 2006 edition of their documentary film festival. As far as North American doc fests go, there’s Full Frame, Hot Docs, Hot Springs, Silverdocs and a handful of others. So when I read the list of winners…I was disappointed. Not because the films aren’t good, there’s just nothing […]

Reading my daily dose of indieWIRE something caaught my eye. Blog suicide. I clicked on it thinking it would be about: A) when you don’t write anything for over a week even after having attended a documentary event at the Academy B) when you spend all your time writing your blog and no time working […]

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