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March Documentary Film Festivals
If the autumn months are the ‘Christmas’ for documentary film festivals, then March would be the ‘Thanksgiving’. Numerous well-known documentary film festival take place all around the world in March … Continue reading
World Press Photo – Multimedia Winners
World Press Photo recently awarded the winners in the third annual World Press Photo Multimedia Contest. This year, international jury awarded multimedia stories in three categories; Online Shorts, Online Features and … Continue reading
Collaboration with Swedish Radar magazine
Docs & Film Festivals is proud to announce collaboration with Radar, a Swedish online magazine. Radar was founded in 2009 by Emma Svensson, co-founder of Rockfoto.nu. The website relaunched in January … Continue reading
Noteworthy Norwegian Documentaries
Having traveled to two Norwegian film festivals in four months, Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) and Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF) it´s safe to say that Norwegian Documentary filmmaking is on … Continue reading
‘Blood Brother’ wins U.S. Grand Jury Prize and ‘A River Changes Course’ wins World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance
Blood Brother (dir. Steve Hoover) won two awards at Sundance the U.S. Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for U.S. documentary. The documentary tells the story of American guy Rocky who was traveling in … Continue reading
Film festival frenzy
Film festival fans have many festivals to choose from in the coming weeks. Sundance is currently happening in Park City, Utah, Doc Point started earlier this week in Helsinki, Göteborg … Continue reading
TIFF report
There Will Be Some Who Will Not Fear Even That Void (dir. Saeed Taji Farouky, UK, 2012) was awarded The Tromsø Palm at TIFF – Tromsø International Film Festival, in Tromsø, … Continue reading
Packing for TIFF – Tromsø International Film Festival
Docs & Film Festivals is packing for the first film festival this year; TIFF – Tromsø International Film Festival, in Tromsø, Norway. TIFF is probably the world’s northernmost film festival and the … Continue reading
The 2013 Oscar nominees for best documentaries
The 85th Academy Awards nominations were announced today. As before there are two documentary categories; Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short. Only five films are nominated in each category … Continue reading
Best Documentaries of 2012
Happy new year everyone! It´s fitting to start the new year with a list of the best documentaries of 2012. 2012 was a good year for documentaries and putting this … Continue reading
X-Mas Greetings
Dear friends & followers Docs & Film Festivals wishes you and your families Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! Hope you enjoy the holidays and get to see lots of … Continue reading
Free streaming of Dreamland
Dreamland, (dir. Þorfinnur Guðnason and Andri Snær Magnason, 2010) is an award-winning Icelandic documentary Iceland Cinema Online is offering a free streaming of the documentary today only, until 24:00 GMT. … Continue reading
