Mission Possible: see Disarm. now to understand how the Mine Ban Treaty cuts the crippling effects of landmines worldwide. The treaty's second review conference is Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 in Cartagena, Colombia. Make the world a safer mine-free place!
Lixan Fan's Last Train Home, which recently won the Best Feature Length Documentary Award at IDFA in Amsterdam, is one of twelve documentaries selected to compete at Sundance Film Festival 2010 in the World Documentary Competition. Check out the complete list.
The competing international documentaries were selected from 782 submissions from around the world.
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival takes place from January 21 to 31 in Park City, Utah.
Sundance Film Festival 2010, scheduled to take place in Park City, Utah, from January 21 to 31, has announced an extraoridinary line up of sixteen documentaries in the U.S. Documentary Competition, with world premieres of films by directed by Davis Guggenheim, Alex Gibney, Leon Gast, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, among other leading documentary filmmakers. Check the complete list of films.
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story, the highly entertaining and very moving documentary that follows Zypora Spaisman, the feisty and charming 84-year old diva of New York's famed Folksbiene, the oldest running Yiddish theater in America, as she struggles through one snowy winter to save her beloved theater and art form from extinction.
The film has successfully been screened in art houses and at festivals since it premiered in 2007, and is, at last, being released on DVD -- just in time for the holiday gift-giving season.
Zypora is a real inspiration -- and so is Yiddish Theater: A Love Story. Read my full review, watch the trailer and/or order the DVD. You won't be sorry!
Food, Inc.,, filmmaker Robert Kenner's searing expose of the food industry's unhealthy and unholy practices, received the 2009 Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary Film on November, 30 in New York.
The award is presented by IFP, the oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers in the U.S.
Other documentaries nominated for the award include My Neighbor My Killer, Good Hair, Paradise and Tyson.
Food, Inc. has also been nominated for a 2010 Independent Spirit Award and is on the Oscars short list of documentaries to be considered for a 2010 Academy Award nomination.
(PHOTO: 'Food Inc' Poster Art. Courtesy Magnolia Pictures).
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