Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

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The Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC is the main venue for the festival.

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema. Each spring Full Frame welcomes filmmakers and film lovers from around the world to historic downtown Durham, North Carolina for a four-day, morning to midnight array of over 100 films as well as discussions, panels, and southern hospitality. Set within a four-block radius, the intimate festival landscape fosters community and conversation between filmmakers, film professionals and the public.

The festival is a program of the Center for Documentary Studies (a non-profit, 501 c 3), and receives support from corporate sponsors, private foundations and individual donors whose generosity provides the foundation that makes the event possible. The Presenting Sponsor of the Festival is Duke University. Additional sponsors include: A&E IndieFilms, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, National Endowment for the Arts, Merge Records, Whole Foods,and the City of Durham.

The festival began in 1998 with no more than a few hundred patrons and has grown tremendously since then. Full Frame is now considered to be one of the premier documentary film festivals in the United States. [1]

Full Frame's mission is to serve the documentary form and its community by showcasing the contemporary work of established and emerging filmmakers. The festival provides a space that nurtures conversation between artists, students, and the Full Frame audience. Full Frame is committed to enhancing public understanding and appreciation of the art form and its significance, while making films more accessible to a wider audience.

Full Frame also promotes the festival’s mission throughout the year by presenting documentary work in other venues both locally and nationally, partnering with organizations like the American Tobacco Historic District/Capitol Broadcasting Company, Des Moines Art Center, Duke University, the IFC Center, the International Affairs Council of North Carolina, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Rooftop Films, and the University of North Carolina (UNC) School System.

Full Frame has reached national recognition not just from its impressive programming but also the presence of numerous filmmaking celebrities. Over the years, those attending have included Morgan Spurlock, Michael Moore, DA Pennebaker, Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito, Ken Burns, Joan Allen, Mira Nair, Al Franken, Sydney Pollack, Barbara Kopple, Steve James, George Butler, Alex Gibney and many others.[1]

The festival receives about 1200 new films for consideration for the New Docs program.

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[edit] Curated Series

Each year the festival invites a member of the documentary filmmaking community to curate a series of films on a specific topic. The curated series have included:

[edit] Career Award

Each year, the festival presents a filmmaker with the Full Frame Career Award. Past recipients include:

[edit] Industry Award

Occasionally, the festival honors an industry member who has made important contributions to the field with the Full Frame Industry Award. Past recipients include:

[edit] Awards

The festival offers a number of prizes at each festival.

The prizes awarded at the 2011 festival:

  • The Full Frame Grand Jury Award for best overall film.
  • The Full Frame Audience Award is chosen by ballot of the attendees of the festival.
  • The Full Frame Jury Award for Best Short is given to the best film of 40 minutes or less.
  • The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) Filmmaker Award for the film which best gives a firsthand look at the central issues of contemporary life and culture.
  • The Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award for the best first-time documentary feature filmmaker.
  • The Full Frame Inspiration Award for the best film examining religion and spirituality.
  • The Full Frame President's Award for the best student film.
  • The The Nicholas School Environmental Award for the film that best depicts the conflict between our drive to improve living standards through development and modernization, and the imperative to preserve both the natural environment that sustains us and the heritages that define us.
  • The Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights for a film that addresses a significant human rights issue in the US.

Past Grand Jury Award winners are:

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Morris, Neil (2009-04-01). "A smaller, more compact festival yields documentary riches". Independent Weekly. http://indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A354662. Retrieved 2009-04-03. 

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